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Another addition from those Dozois auction lots.

Dozois, Gardner, editor. The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Seventh Collection. St. Martin’s Press, 2010. First edition hardback, a Fine copy in a Fine, Mylar-protected dust jacket, new and unread.

Another book from that Dozois auction purchase.

Dozois, Gardner, editor. The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Fourth Annual Collection. St. Martin’s, 2007. First edition hardback, a Fine- copy with slight bend at head and heel in a Fine, Mylar-protected dust jacket. Bought for slightly under $10.

While I’ve cut way back on auction bidding, every now and then something catches my eye. One of the Invaluable auction houses had an auction that featured a good bit of science fiction, and I won two lowball bids for two lots featuring multiple Dozois Year’s Best Science Fiction hardback firsts. So I ended up picking up 17 volumes, including four I didn’t already have, for about $160 including shipping. So less than $10 each. The ones not going into my library will be in the next Lame Excuse Books catalog, already in progress. Here’s the first of the four:

Dozois, Gardner, editor. The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Third Collection. St. Martin’s Press, 2006. First edition hardback, a Fine copy in a Fine, Mylar-protected dust jacket, new and unread.

I used to buy these volumes from Willie Siros every year at Armadillocon, back when he was still alive and I was still invited. But over the years I missed a few, either because he didn’t get in copies or because the copies he got in were flawed in some way. But with the latest acquisitions, I think the only one I’ll be missing is #15.

I should be blogging the other three this week…