Archive for the ‘Books’ Category
Monday, April 30th, 2018
Two signed firsts I picked up cheap at the same auction:
Niven, Larry and Jerry Pournelle. Escape From Hell. Tor, 2009. First edition hardback, a Fine copy in a Fine dust jacket, signed by both Niven and Pournelle. Sequel to Inferno. Supplants an unsigned copy. Bought for $10 plus buyers fee and shipping at auction.
Silverberg, Robert. Beyond the Safe Zone. Donald I. Fine, 1986. First edition hardback, a Fine copy in a Fine dust jacket. Inscribed by Silverberg: “For Joe—/L.A./ 10/25/86 / Robert Silverberg.” Short story collection. Bought for $10 plus buyers fee and shipping at auction.
Tags:Books, Jerry Pournelle, Larry Niven, Robert Silverberg, Science Fiction, signatures
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Tuesday, April 24th, 2018
My quest to own a first edition of every Manly Wade Wellman book draws closer to completion with these two non-fiction works:
Wellman, Manly Wade. The Rebel Songster: Songs the Confederates Sang. Heritage House, 1959. First edition hardback, a Fine- copy with slight wear at points and slightly uneven glue binding along front cover joint, in a Very Good+ dust jacket with age darkening 2 1/2″ along front bottom and 1″ near spine, and small touches of dust soiling everywhere. A book of songs Confederate soldiers sung during the Civil War, with music, some familiar (“The Yellow Rose of Texas”), but most not. Bought for $35 on eBay, a good deal since I intermittently searched for this for several years when there were no copies to be found online at all.
Wellman, Manly Wade. The Story of Moore County. Moore County Historical Society, 1974. First edition hardback, a Fine- copy with slight wear at head and heel in a Fine- dust jacket with one 1/8″ closed tear at head (now under Mylar), slight wrinkling to top front jacket, and a few touches of general wear; a very nice copy. Non-fiction history of the North Carolina County. Bought off eBay for $10.
Wellman non-fiction books I lack:
(with Robert F. Cope) The County of Gaston. Gaston County Historical Society, 1961.
The County of Warren, North Carolina, 1586-1917. University of North Carolina Press, 1959.
Fastest on the River: The Great Race Between the “Natchez” and the “Robert E Lee”. Henry Holt, 1957.
Giant in Gray: A Biography of Wade Hampton of South Carolina. Scribners, 1949.
The Life And Times Of Sir Archie The Story Of America’s Greatest Thoroughbred, 1805-1833. University of North Carolina Press, 1958.
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Saturday, March 24th, 2018
Two of these were bought as part of the Subterranean PC copy sale, and the other was an unrelated eBay purchase.
Ellison, Harlan. Can and Can’tankerous. Edgeworks Abbey/Subterranean Press, 2015. First edition hardback, a PC copy of 324 signed, numbered copies, a Fine copy in a Fine dust jacket and slipcase. Short story collection. This limited edition contains four stories not in the trade edition. Bought for $100.
Ellison, Harlan. An Edge in My Voice. Donning, 1985. First edition hardback, one of 1,200 copies signed by Ellison, a Fine copy, sans dust jacket, as issued, in a Fine slipcase. Collection of non-fiction essays. Supplements a trade hardback and Edgeworks 1. Bought for $30 plus shipping off eBay.
Ellison, Harlan. Top of the Volcano. Edgeworks Abbey/Subterranean Press, 2014. First edition hardback, a PC copy of 250 signed, numbered copies, a Fine copy in a Fine dust jacket and slipcase. Collection of Ellison’s award-winning short stories. Bought for $125.
Tags:Books, Fantasy, Harlan Ellison, Horror, Limited Editions, Science Fiction, signed, Subterranean Press
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Thursday, March 22nd, 2018
Another book I picked up at the Subterranean Press PC copy sale:
Mieville, China. Railsea. Subterranean Press, 2012. First limited edition hardback (the Del Rey hardback is the true first), PC copy of 26 signed lettered copies, a Fine copy in a Fine dust jacket and a Fine traycase (even by the standards of lettered editions, this is a very nice leather traycase with suede baffle surfaces on the inside of the front and back). Bought for $150.
Tags:Books, China Mieville, Fantasy, Limited Editions, signed, small press publishers, Subterranean Press
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Wednesday, March 21st, 2018
Another book I picked up at the Subterranean Press PC copy sale:
Farmer, Philip Jose. The Other in the Mirror. Subterranean Press, 2009. First edition hardback, a PC copy of 26 lettered copies, a Fine copy in a Fine dust jacket and a Fine traycase. Omnibus edition of Fire and the Night, Jesus on Mars, and Night of Light, and the first hardback editions of the first two. Supplements both a trade edition and a copy of the limited edition I got very cheap. Bought for $150 (half cover price for the lettered edition).
Tags:Books, Limited Editions, Philip Jose Farmer, Science Fiction, signed, small press publishers, Subterranean Press
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Tuesday, March 20th, 2018
Subterranean Press had a charity sale for PC copies of various lettered and numbered states of various books, most of which had already sold out. I took advantage of it to snap out some books for authors I collect, this being the first:
Vance, Jack. Desperate Days. Subterranean Press, 2012. First edition hardback, a PC copy of the 26 copy lettered edition, a Fine copy in a Fine dustjacket and a Fine- traycase (there’s a small flaw to the cork-lined interior front lid), signed by Vance. Contains “The Genessee Slough Murders: Outline for a Novel” not in the trade edition (though reprinted from Jerry Hewett’s bibliography). Contains three Vance mysteries: The Fox Valley Murders, The Pleasant Grove Murders and The Dark Ocean. Note that there was no regular numbered edition of this, so the lettered edition was the only one signed by Vance. Bought from the Subterranean PC sale for $250 plus shipping. Supplements a trade edition.
Also note that the traycase for Desperate Days is distinctively different from the one the lettered edition of Dangerous Ways, the first book in this mystery reprint series and which resembles an even larger book with it’s rounded spine. The traycase for Desperate Days resembles the regular Subterranean square traycase.
Tags:Books, Jack Vance, Limited Editions, Mystery, Science Fiction, signed, Subterranean Press
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Wednesday, March 14th, 2018
No theme, just two signed first editions, bought from different sources:
Matheson, Richard. Hunted Past Reason. Tor, 2002. First edition hardback, a Fine copy in a Fine dust jacket, new and unread. Signed by Matheson, with certificate of authenticity laid in. Supplements an unsigned copy. Bought for $18.
Reynolds, Alastair. The Iron Tactician. Newcon Press, 2016. First edition hardback, #197 of 250 signed, numbered copies, a Fine copy in a Fine dust jacket. Bought for $57.60 from a fellow Biblio dealer.
Tags:Alastair Reynolds, Books, Horror, Limited Editions, Richard Matheson, Science Fiction, signed, small press publishers
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Thursday, March 8th, 2018
Both of these I got from the same book auction:
Smith, E. E. “Doc”. Skylark of Valeron. Fantasy Press, 1949. First hardback edition (and first limited edition), trade state (Currey B), a Fine- copy with small bookplate pastedown remnant on RFE, in a Fine- dust jacket with just the barest trace of dust soiling to white rear cover. Inscribed by Smith: “To Rocco Mays/In appreciation of your appreciation/of my stuff —/Edward E. Smith, PhD. Currey, page 457. Chalker/Owings, page 159. Locke, Spectrum of Fantasy (One), page 201. Kemp, The Anthem Series, page 26. Bought from National Book Auctions for $100. (Surface wear in the scan below is on the dust jacket protector.)
Vance, Jack. The Houses of Izam. Underwood-Miller, 1983. First edition hardback, #104 of 200 signed, numbered copies, a Fine copy in a Fine dust jacket. Hewett, A12h. Chalker/Owings, page 435. Supplements a trade edition. Bought from National Book Auctions for $55.
Tags:Books, E. E. "Doc" Smith, Fantasy Press, Jack Vance, Limited Editions, Science Fiction, signed, Underwood/Miller
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Tuesday, March 6th, 2018
Another small press Joe R. Lansdale item:
Lansdale, Joe R. and Jussi Piironen. Hap and Leonard: Savage Season. SST, 2017. First hardback and first limited edition, number 105 of 270 signed, numbered copies, a Fine copy in a Fine dust jacket, new and unread. Graphic novel adaptation of the first Hap and Leonard novel. The IDW trade paperback edition precedes.
I’ll have copies of this available in the next Lame Excuse Books catalog.
Tags:Books, graphic novel, Joe R. Lansdale, Mystery, signed, small press publishers
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Saturday, March 3rd, 2018
I had a solicitation for this for Lame Excuse Books a while back, and hesitated because Clive Barker isn’t quite the sure sale he was in the late 1980s and early 1990s.
Then I saw this copy listed online for less than half cover price.
Barker, Clive. The Body Book. Dark Regions Press, 2016 (stated, though evidently a production glitch meant some copies weren’t shipped until well into 2017). First edition hardback, a PC copy of 500 signed/numbered hardbacks, a Fine copy in a Fine dust jacket. Includes two stories from The Books of Blood, “The Body Politic” and “In the Flesh,” as well as screenplays for each of them, storyboard, and interviews with Barker and others who worked on them. Bought for $29.99 off eBay. (List price is $80.)
Tags:Books, Clive Barker, Dark Regions Press, Horror, small press publishers
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