hint, hint ...

If anybody was thinking about offering me a birthday gift but doesn't have an idea yet ... I just got this message from my JCO discussion group today. Don't know if it'll still be available, somebody else might already have snatched it up. But it's an idea anyway.

I saw this on Half.com if anyone is a serious collector for $25: MARYA - A LIFE. BY JOYCE CAROL OATES. Franklin Center, Pennsylvania: Franklin Library, 1986. Signed First Edition. Full- Leather.A handsome maroon leather. With marbled endpapers, gold-gilt cover designs and page edges, and bound-in silk bookmark. Frontispiece by Judy Pedersen. Includes a special introduction by the author that was not in the trade edition.