New Life for DOUBLE LIFE

Re: New Life for DOUBLE LIFE

feeds@yuku.com (A Lee Hern) — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 08:40:24 GMT

John Fitzpatrick wrote:
I happened to notice sale offers on Ebay for $400, $72, and other absurd figures. So don't forget about the present opportunity to get a copy direct from the publisher at a modest price. If past experience is any guide, the book will again become a prized rarity someday.

Sellers do ask something close to the former figure for an autographed copy of the original Hippocrene edition....

Re: New Life for DOUBLE LIFE

feeds@yuku.com (thegoldenage3060) — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 08:05:33 GMT

I agree with John, in the past when is born this great opportunity, I have buy on ebay from ABEBOOKS UK, good price, and all good, dont lose this opportunity and buy safe

Re: New Life for DOUBLE LIFE

feeds@yuku.com (John Fitzpatrick) — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 05:18:46 GMT

I happened to notice sale offers on Ebay for $400, $72, and other absurd figures. So don't forget about the present opportunity to get a copy direct from the publisher at a modest price. If past experience is any guide, the book will again become a prized rarity someday.

Re: New Life for DOUBLE LIFE

feeds@yuku.com (AlanJHamer) — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 10:16:13 GMT

It also contains some very worthwhile additional anecdotes and tributes in the exra chapter, Into the 80s, as mentioned by Doug, including his account of and choices for, the BBC Radio programme Desert Island Discs in 1984. Anyone who hasn't heard this would be interested in his moving account of a performance of The Rite of Spring in London, attended by an ailing Stravinsky. It seems everyone afterwards - including Rozsa - was so affected by the fact that the...

Re: New Life for DOUBLE LIFE

feeds@yuku.com (A Lee Hern) — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 21:25:19 GMT

The Wynwood edition actually contains a few photos that don't appear in the Hippocrene imprint.

Re: New Life for DOUBLE LIFE

feeds@yuku.com (Doug Raynes) — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 07:55:12 GMT

I already have the first edition and the paperback but I did recently obtain the 1989 Wynwood Press version having, for some reason, been unaware that it contained an addition final chapter. It was interesting to read Rozsa's thoughts during the '80s and it was particularly inspirational and courageous for him to discuss his need to continue to work despite his debilitating illnesses during that period.

Although the Wynwood omits most of the photographs it actually gives the...

Re: New Life for DOUBLE LIFE

feeds@yuku.com (John Fitzpatrick) — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 19:58:18 GMT

Resale prices have been all over the map -- just another demonstration (as if we needed it!) that markets don't always behave rationally.

Re: New Life for DOUBLE LIFE

feeds@yuku.com (Hal Sacks) — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 16:51:05 GMT

John;
Does this mean that those of us who purchased The Hippocrene /Midas first printing of 1982 from the Society which was signed by Dr. Rozsa have an heirloom sitting on our shelves?
Ebay offers a signed hardcover version on sale for $500, but shows it as a Wynwood Press hardcover signed edition from 1989.

Re: New Life for DOUBLE LIFE

feeds@yuku.com (John Fitzpatrick) — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 17:43:42 GMT

Mr. Green advises: "If your Society members advise me when they order it, they can buy it for the £9.95 plus postage."

Re: New Life for DOUBLE LIFE

feeds@yuku.com (John Fitzpatrick) — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 09:25:57 GMT

What thoughts do we have on this news? The number of past inquiries and the sometimes inflated secondhand prices you see on Amazon and eBay made me think this would be a hot item. There was, and is, even the possibility of the Society taking some copies for U.S. resale.

I neglected to say that the newly discovered stock is the 1984 paperback edition.

Re: New Life for DOUBLE LIFE

feeds@yuku.com (John Fitzpatrick) — Sat, 25 Oct 2008 14:34:59 GMT

Ray Green, the original publisher, advises that he has uncovered substantial remaining stock of this important memoir -- which has sometimes commanded high prices in the secondhand market. One way of ordering is through the international online bookseller www.AbeBooks.com. You might have to go to the U.K. version of the site: www.AbeBooks.co.UK. Use caution. It is possible that a...

New Life for DOUBLE LIFE

feeds@yuku.com (John Fitzpatrick) — Sat, 25 Oct 2008 14:18:56 GMT

The original publisher has unearthed a significant stock of the original paperback of the first edition. First, let me offer this summary of the three versions of Rozsa's memoir:

First edition, 1982. Hardcover, 224 pages, heavily illustrated throughout. Published in the U.K. by Midas Books of Tunbridge Wells, Kent. Distributed in the U.S.A. by Hippocrene Books of New York.

Paperback version, 1984. Issued by The...