Thomas Hurlburt

Owens, Tom S. COLLECTING BASEBALL CARDS, Lerner Publishing Group 1993
ISBN: 1-56294-713-3 As New Condition

Children's Literature This is an informative guide that strikes a nice balance between the potential monetary value of collecting and the personal satisfaction to be gained by owning a piece of history. Owens discourages young collectors from speculating for pure financial gain. "The stock market is for making money. Baseball cards are for making memories," he writes. That said, he explains the fascinating history of baseball cards and details why some cards are so much more valuable than others. Owens also gives some tips about getting cards signed by players and about obtaining collectibles that might not be available everywhere. His how-to guide reads like an insider's tips, and his writing is engaging and encouraging. If there is a kid in your life who collects cards, this is a terrific reference work. 2001, The Millbrook Press,23.90 and9.95. Ages 9 up. Reviewer: Donna Freedman School Library Journal Gr 4-6-- This once leisurely childhood activity has turned into a billion-dollar-a-year business. Owens gives practical advice concerning tricks of the trade for youngsters who want to get started or novices looking for ways to improve upon or give focus to their collections. He provides a history of baseball cards, and discusses how to buy wisely, protect the cards, specialize, and avoid being taken advantage of when making purchases. Photographs, mainly full color, of various cards over the years serve as illustrations. The final chapter lists the major publications devoted to collecting and addresses of card companies and all the major league teams. While not a price guide, which seems to be the hot-ticket item in libraries, the book contains clear and accurate information, similar to that found in Plaut's Start Collecting Baseball Cards (Running Pr, 1989), and won't become as quickly dated as the price guides do. --Tom S. Hurlburt, La Crosse Public Library, WI School Library Journal Gr 3 Up-This new edition has many differences and improvements over the original (Millbrook, 1993), including a much longer glossary and more information on determining condition, inserts, shows, Internet buying and selling, the future of collecting, and Web sites. However, the first edition has better illustrations-nearly all are larger and have more legible text. Owens writes in a light, entertaining style, starting with the history of the baseball-card industry from its beginnings in 1869. He goes into detail about how to determine the all-important condition of cards and tells how the Internet has changed collecting. The valuable section on card shows even tells the best time to approach a dealer to get a bargain. Some of the players pictured are not identified, and at times illustration and text are not juxtaposed. However, these are minor drawbacks to a sure hit.-Kate Kohlbeck, Randall School, Waukesha, WI Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information. Internet Book Watch It would be a shame to limit Thomas Owens' Collecting Baseball Cards to the young audience it was written for: many an adult collector will find this the perfect introduction to baseball cards, using easy language to explain how the cards are graded and what determines their value. Color photos throughout display vintage cards. Paperback

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Cazes, Jack (edited by). Journal of Immunoassay & Immunochemistry, Volume 24, Number 4. New York: Dekker, 2003.
Journal Tissue Immunoassay for 19F-Tagged 5-Hydroxytryptophan Authors: Sherry Dingman; Lara Hurlburt; Rhys Thomas; Congyuan Guo ; A Time-Resolved Fluorescence Immunoassay (DELFIA) Increases the Sensitivity of Antigen-Driven Cytokine Detection Authors: Gina Allicotti; Eva Borras; Clemencia Pinilla ; Normal Value of Immunoglobulins IgA, IgG, and IgM in Iranian Healthy Adults, Measured by Nephelometry Authors: G. A. Kardar; S. H. Shams; Z. Pourpak; M. Moin ; Sensitive ELISA for Determination of Serum E2 Using a New Tracer E2-Biotin Authors: Jinfu Zhao; Yongcheng Wang; Jianqiu Mi; Yuanzong Li; Wenbao Chang ; Potential of Laser Immunoassay for Detection of HIV in Human Blood Serum and Urine Authors: Anita Saxena; K. B. Roy; H. B. Bohidar ; A Novel Antigen Detection Immunoassay for Field Diagnosis of Hepatitis C Virus Infection Authors: Abdelfattah M. Attallah; Hisham Ismail; Ashraf A. Tabll; Gamal E. Shiha; Ibrahim El-Dosoky ; Development and Validation of a Simple Sensitive Enzyme Immunoassay (EIA) for GH Determination in Buffalo Plasma Authors: B. S. Prakash; Mohan Mondal; N. Anandlaxmi.

Soft Cover, Very Good/No Jacket.

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MACLEAN, JOHN: VANGUARDS OF CANADA. Toronto The Missionary Society of the Methodist Church. 1918
Very Good

pp: x, 262. Twenty-four b&w illustrations, many taken from photographs, coloured fold-out map to rear. Ex-library ( Fort William Sanitarium), pocket to rear free endpaper; stamp to foot of page 119; name(?) blacked out to front free endpaper; remnants of label to spine. Light wear to extremities. Biographies of thirteen early Canadian missionaries ( to Canada) including Shawundais , the Ojibway Orator, Thomas Hurlburt, George Young, Chief Joseph. The last two chapters are on Martyrs of the Cross, and Heroines of Western Canada. First Edition No Jacket Cloth 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall Ex-Library ( Private )

[SW: Canada, Pioneers, Missionaries.]

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