[Leica] Maybe of interest?

[Jayanand Govindaraj]

What can anyone say? Bad luck, I suppose, because my limited knowledge
suggests to me that legal recourse, if any, is just a waste of your
lawyer's fees.

Jayanand

On Fri, Nov 14, 2014 at 2:19 AM, Ted Grant <tedgrant at shaw.ca> wrote:

> MAYBE OF INTEREST? Collector's copy book!
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> Many LUG members during past years have purchased one or the other of my
> coffee table size hard cover all B&W Leica available light shot books on
> the
> MEDICAL PROFESSION..
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> 1/ "This is Our Work. The Legacy of Sir William Osler."
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> An edition of 250 copies with a leather hand bound cover special edition.
> All author signed and numbered copies. Plus another edition of a 1000 with
> standard dust jacket cover over regular cover.
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> 2/ Re-published: "DOCTOR's WORK. The Legacy of Sir William Osler."
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> Recently I was browsing "USED BOOK" internet locations looking for any of
> my
> 8 published books with various publishing house's during past years. When I
> discovered two copies of the "Leather hand bound Special Editions?"
> READY???
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> One listed as "SPECIAL COLLECTOR COPY.... hand signed & numbered....
> "$2000.oo." USA dollars! The other $3000.oo! :-) Jeeeeeeeeeeesh if only I
> had a half dozen copies??????????? :-) :-)
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> In any event I thought you might be interested with the end part of this
> publishing adventure?
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> The publisher made a major sale of copies to the American Medical Assn. I
> mean bigtime sale! My royalty cheque in USA funds was to be for $60,000.oo!
> Yep absolutely honest! HOWEVER!! :-)
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> OH and before I get to the final lines...... Converting that amount to
> Canadian dollars at the time it would've amounted to??? "80,000.oo! Yeah I
> know yer all breathing deep and thinking all kinds of nice things etc!
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> HOWEVER? The publisher put himself into receivership and I received
> NADDA!!!!! NOT A PENNY!!! :-(
> Nor a penny for my near ten years of photo production time in between
> regular paying assignments about the world.
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> To say the least we shed a few tears!
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> Have a nice day CREW! :-) If you don't smile at this yer going to be sick
> as
> a dog!!!! :-( :-( :-( AAAAAAAAAACCCCCCKKKKKKK!!!
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> cheers,
> Dr. ted :-)
> And every word is true!
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