I recently picked up three Ray Bradbury chapbooks, two signed stapled chapbooks from Heritage Auctions, one bound in decorated boards from Half Price Books. One is pretty well documented as a first edition. However, the other two, being for the scholastic market, are not. Bradbury, Ray. Collected Short Stories. Petersen Publishing Company (The Great Author… Continue reading Library Additions: Three Interesting Ray Bradbury Chapbooks
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Hollywood Auction Alert
Hollywood auction house is having another big auction of film memorabilia, including a few interesting SF-related items: The fourth issue of the fanzine Imagination, which includes Ray Bradbury’s first published story. Willis O’Brien’s very shoggothian concept art for an unproduced film called The Bubbles, featuring “bubble-like creatures in Baja, California that devour everything in their… Continue reading Hollywood Auction Alert
Alice and the Lizard People
You’ve probably heard of Alice Walker, author of The Color Purple and the fringe SF book The Temple of My Familiar. What you may not have heard is that she’s a fan of David icke, he of the shape-shifting lizard people. And Ms. Walker is evidently a believer: Earlier I wrote that David Icke reminded… Continue reading Alice and the Lizard People
Library Additions: Two Interesting Books
My acquisition of new books didn’t stop while I was cataloging my big Zelazny purchase, though it did slow down. In particular, Half Price Books had one of their regular coupon sales, where the coupons start out by offering you 50% off one book Sunday, 40% off Monday-Tuesday, etc. Since Dwight was going to be… Continue reading Library Additions: Two Interesting Books
Library Additions: A Major Collection of Roger Zelazny Books
Bob Pylant is a major Roger Zelazny collector in Austin to whom I had sold the odd item to (like the NESFA Press Collected Zelazny volumes) over the years. Unfortunately, he suffered a car accident and had to sell some of his collection. So I went over to his house on June 13, made an… Continue reading Library Additions: A Major Collection of Roger Zelazny Books
Interesting Book and History Auction
Including that super rare Abraham Lincoln set that I mentioned before. Plus letters from George Washington, etc. Lot’s of interesting stuff (though very little even remotely SF), but I’m about to go to sleep, so can’t do more than mention it in passing…
Richard Matheson, RIP
Dead at 87. It’s been a bad year for legendary SF/F/H writers dying, and it’s only half over.
Library Additions: January 1, 2013—June 13, 2013
Time for another roundup of the books I’ve bought over the lat (roughly) half year. (Why June 13 rather than the end of the month? Because I’ve just purchased a large Roger Zelazny collection I have yet to catalog, and I want to get all this out of the way and posted before I start… Continue reading Library Additions: January 1, 2013—June 13, 2013
Library Additions: A Random Assortment of Interesting Books
Books and related items, and no particular theme, other than interesting firsts I picked up. Been dawdling about getting this documented, and now I need to put it up so I can catalog a major acquisition of books I made Friday… Bok, Hannes. Bok 1. Glenn Nigra, 1975. Portfolio with 12 loose Hannes Bok illustration… Continue reading Library Additions: A Random Assortment of Interesting Books
Iain Banks, 1954-2013: RIP
The BBC is reporting that Iain Banks died at 59, just two months after announcing he had terminal cancer, and weeks after an update in which he was sounding a tiny bit more optimistic. A great writer, of both SF and mainstream work, and he will be missed.