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The final library addition from that Dozois auction buy.

Dozois, Gardner, editor. The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Eighth Collection. St. Martin’s Press, 2011. First edition hardback, a Fine copy in a Fine, Mylar-protected dust jacket, new and unread. One of the years St. Martin’s printed this on thin paper, so the volume is slimmer than usual even though it has the same number of pages as other Dozois volumes.

(Note: What look like whitish smudges near the top are scanner reflections from the Mylar dust jacket protector.)

Now the only Dozois Year’s Best volume I lack from my want list is Fifteenth.

If you’re looking for individual Dozois Year’s Best hardback first volumes, I’m going to have a whole bunch of pristine copies of carious years in the next Lame Excuse Books catalog, currently in progress.

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…