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You Know You’re a Rockhound When…

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Snowflake Obsidian Specimen _____________________ – You look down instead of up. – Any rock, no matter how common, will raise your pulse. – You see beauty in all rocks, even “Leaverites,” the ones you leave behind. – Your family and friends just roll their eyes when you pick up yet another rock. – You are willing to dig up a rock with a spoon, even if it means ruining the spoon. – You have been known to visit urban rock piles and risk stares from people who are wondering why an old person is crawling around on a dirt pile. – You are willing to pay excess baggage fees (international, yet) for a large yellow rock that looks like a loaf of bread. – Your pockets are always filled with rocks and residual dirt. – You often find pebbles in your shoes and even socks. – You don’t mind dirt at all, even under your fingernails. That’s why soap and water exist. – You get why rocks are so spiritual; you understand that rocks have been around since the beginning of earth ...

Leaverites: Four Rocks from North Carolina

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Leaverites: Four Rocks from North Carolina Leaverite: Large Triangular Gray Rock from North Carolina Leaverite: Large Triangular Gray Rock from North Carolina Leaverite: Large Triangular Gray Rock from North Carolina Leaverite: Large Triangular Gray Rock from North Carolina Leaverite: Large Triangular Gray Rock from North Carolina Leaverite: Large Triangular Gray Rock from North Carolina Leaverite: Pink Rock from North Carolina Leaverite: Pink Rock from North Carolina Leaverite: Pink Rock from North Carolina Leaverite: Pink Rock from North Carolina Leaverite: Pink Rock from North Carolina Leaverite: Pink Rock from North Carolina Leaverite: Small Pink Rock from North Carolina Leaverite: Small Pink Rock from North Carolina Leaverite: Small Pink Rock from North Carolina Leaverite: Small Pink Rock from North Carolina Leaverite: Small Pink Rock from North Carolina Leaverite: Granite (Sparkly) from North Carolina Leaverite: Granite (Sparkly) from North Carolina Leaverite: Granite (Sparkly) f...

2012: Book Box #23 – Beanie Babies Magazines and Antique Newsletters

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Beanie World 1999 , Ultimate Buyer’s Guide (Publisher: Mary Beth’s Bean Bag World Monthly)   2012: Book Box #23 – Beanie Babies Magazines and Antique Newsletters   Beanie Babies Magazines and Other Beanie Related Items: 1. Beanie Collector , October/November 1998 2. Beanie Collector , December 1998/January 1999 3. Beanie Invasion Balloons (Uninflated) 4. Beanie Mania , Premier Collector’s Issue, August/September 1998 5. Beanie Poster (Small), Bee Neat, 1997 6. Beanie World 1999 , Ultimate Buyer’s Guide (Publisher: Mary Beth’s Bean Bag World Monthly) 7. Beans! Magazine , Vol. 1, No. 5, November 1998 8. Beans! Magazine , Vol. 1, No. 6, December 1998 9. Mary Beth’s Bean Bag World Monthly: Collector’s Edition (Several Issues): -- No. 7, Vol. 1, No. 7, September 1998 -- No. 8, Vol. 2, No. 1, October 1998 -- No. 9, Vol. 2, No. 2 November, 1998 -- No. 10, Vol. 2, No. 3, December 1998 -- No. 11, Vol. 2, No. 4, January 1999 -- No. 15, Vol. 2,...

2012: Book Box #22 – Signed Editions Mostly Hardback

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Dave Eggers:  You Shall Know Our Velocity!   2012: Book Box #22 – Signed Editions Mostly Hardback   Hardback, Unless Otherwise Specified: 1. Addonizio: Kim Addonizio and Dorianne Laux. The Poet’s Companion , 1997, Signed 2. Addonizio: Kim Addonizio. What is This Thing Called Love (Poems), 2004. Signed and First Edition (10th Printing) 3. Biguenet: John Biguenet. The Torturer’s Apprentice , 2002. Signed 4. Cash: Jean W. Cash. Flannery O’Connor: A Life , 2002. Signed 5. Cohen: Ralph Alan Cohen. ShakesFear and How to Cure It , 2007. 1st Printing and Signed. 6. Eggers: Dave Eggers. You Shall Know Our Velocity! July 2003. Signed 7. Heyen: William Heyen. Diana, Charles, & the Queen (Poems) , 1998. First Edition (7th Printing) and Signed 8. Heyen: William Heyen. Erika: Poems of the Holocaust , 1991. Signed 9. Hinojosa: Rolando Hinojosa. Ask a Policeman , 1998. Signed. 10. Hirshfield: Jane Hirshfield. The Lives of the Heart , 1997. First Edition an...

2012: Book Box #21 – Hardback and Paperback Books

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Erle Stanley Gardner:  The Case of the Long-Legged Models  (A Perry Mason Mystery), 1957, 1958 2012: Book Box #21 – Hardback and Paperback Books   Hardback and Paperback Books (Paperback Books are Specified): 1. Burt: Olive W. Burt. Peter’s Silver Dollar , 1945 2. Carr: John Dickson Carr. The Third Bullet and Other Stories , 1954 (First Edition) 3. Castaneda: Carlos Castaneda. Journey to Ixtlan: The Lessons of Don Juan , 1972 4. Clark: Doug Clark. They Saw the Second Coming , 1979 (Paperback) 5. Fleming: Elizabeth P Fleming. Gift From the Mikado , 1958 6. Forster: E.M. Forster. A Room with a View , N.D. (Paperback) 7. Gardner: Erle Stanley Gardner. The Case of the Long-Legged Models (A Perry Mason Mystery), 1957, 1958 8. Gonzalez: Rigberto Gonzalez. Autobiography of My Hungers , 2013 9. Greene: Graham Greene. The Heart of the Matter , 1948, 1971 (Paperback) 10. Hanson: Terrence L. Hanson and Ernest J. Wilkins. Español a lo Vivo , 2nd Edition, 19...

2012: Book Box #20 – Hardback and Paperback Books

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Thornton Wilder: Our Town (A Play in Three Acts)    2012: Book Box #20 – Hardback and Paperback Books   Hardback and Paperback Books (Hardback Books are Specified): 1. Di Filippo: Paul Di Filippo. The Steampunk Trilogy: Victoria, Hottentots, Walt and Emily , 1995, 1997 2. Frank: Pat Frank. Alas, Babylon , 1959, 1960, 1993, 1999 3. “Gaming Guide: A Guide to Sands’ Gaming,” N.D. 4. Hart: John S. Hart and James Morgan Hart. Hart’s Composition & Rhetoric , revised edition, 1870, 1897 (Hardback) 5. Hjortsberg: William Hjortsberg. Falling Angel , 1978 6. Le Guin: Ursula K. Le Guin. The Dispossessed , 1974 7. Le Guin: Ursula K. Le Guin. The Lathe of Heaven , 1971 8. Lessing: Doris Lessing. Martha Quest , 1952-2001 9. Library of Choice Selections of Poetry and Prose , 1909 (Hardback) 10. MacInnes: Helen MacInnes. The Deadly Decisions: Decision at Delphi and The Venetian Affair , (Hardback) 11. Marsh: Ngaio Marsh. Colour Scheme , 1943, Book Club E...

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