Re: [photo-3d] Selling Seton - BOOK

["Dan Shelley" <dshelley@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I sould be on the buyer list!    Dan


>From: quellen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>Reply-To: photo-3d@xxxxxxxxxxx
>To: photo-3d@xxxxxxxxxxx
>Subject: Re: [photo-3d] Selling Seton
>Date: Tue, 7 Nov 2000 11:29:30 -0800
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>OK, there appear to be a lot of people who are upset that Seton Rochwhite's
>memorabilia is to be sold on e-bay. Let's see if they wish to put their $$$
>where their words are. I'm not sure that the best way to "preserve" these
>items is to have them in some museum's archives where they are seen by only
>a handful of people. Archives are where the "marginal" stuff goes. Only the
>"hot" stuff gets to be actually put on display, and that goes for CMP at
>Riverside also. Has anybody seen any displays of stereo photos there
>lately? Last time I was in Boston, I wanted to access one of the Harvard
>libraries (Pusey Collection). I was told there was a $200 "browsing fee" to
>look at stuff. So personally, I don't think donation to a Museum or Library
>is the answer (except for the NSA Library.)
>Here is my suggestion:
>1) The vocal voices on photo 3-d who cry "Save Seton's Stuff" should form a
>committee under the auspices of NSA to get out a book on SR & his
>accomplishments. Including a color section of stereo views taken by him and
>his wife.
>2) The purchaser of the SR estate materials would be asked, and paid costs,
>by the committee/or NSA research grant, to make copies/have copies made of
>all pertinent material before it is sold.
>3) The SR NSA book committee would select our best NSA Realist historian to
>write a book on SR & the Realist Legacy. This person would be paid a fixed
>amount to cover the work. (Plus, he/she would get, say, 10 or 20 books as a
>bonus.) Some of the chapters are already written and published in Stereo
>World (one on the Macro, another on Olden's special are two I recall. And
>then there is Jess Powell's "Repairman's Perspective on the Realist." I'm
>sure there's other stuff.
>4) Announcement of a 1,000 or 1500 copy limited edition of this book would
>be made in Stereo World. The first 500 or 750 pre-publication copies would
>be numbered and signed by a surviving member of the SR family (if) and/or
>by the author. The pre-publication copies would sell, at, say, $40 a copy,
>and the remaining, post-publication sales, would be at $50. The first 100
>book orders would have their names entered in a drawing for books numbers
>one through ten.
>5) Solicitation for the first 500/750 copies would start immediately. By
>the time 400/500 checks rolled in, there would be a good gauge of whether
>the production was a "go" or whether the project would die for lack of
>interest. If there were a dearth of interest, refunds would then have to go
>to those who had sent checks.
>6) If the response from NSA members indicates this is a "go", then it
>"goes." The project would be self-financing and might even garner a small
>profit for NSA.
>Who is this Quentin Burke holding forth on this topic? What qualifications
>does he have to expound on book publishing? Well, I've had 50 years in
>printing and publishing, and have been honored to work with two local
>societies in producing short-run hard-cover books (one of almost 450 pages
>and over 250 illustrations) which would not otherwise have seen the light
>of day, except for the fact that they were produced just this way.
>In the book-publishing business, just like the stereo camera business "it's
>not what you can print (manufacture), but what you can sell."
>I'll take three books. Only with a book like this can we ensure that
>Seton's accomplishments live on. Quentin Burke
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