Another Borderlands Little Book:
White, Edward Lucas. A Little Green Book of Grue. Borderlands Press, 2023. First edition hardback, #462 of 500 signed, numbered copies, a Fine copy. A shame they didn’t make it a little white book of some sort…
Archive for June, 2023
Library Addition: Edward Lucas White’s A Little Green Book of Grue
Wednesday, June 28th, 2023Library Addition: HB First of H. Beam Piper’s Lord Kalvan of Otherwhen
Monday, June 26th, 2023I read this a few years ago, and liked it so much I decided to pick up the hardback first.
Piper, H. Beam. Lord Kalvan of Otherwhen. Garland Publishing, 1975. First hardback edition, a Fine copy, sans dust jacket, as issued. Novel of a modern day state trooper accidentally sucked into an alternate timeline where he uses his knowledge of military tactics and technology (such as the composition of gunpowder) to topple a corrupt theocracy. Part of the Garland Library of Science Fiction, reprinted from slightly blown-up pages from the Ace paperback original. Supplements a PBO first. Bought for £68 plus shipping from a UK seller.
Shoegazer Sunday: Slowdive’s “Kisses”
Sunday, June 25th, 2023Everything is Alive, Slowdive’s long-rumored next album, is finally coming out September 1, and “Kisses,” the first single from it, just dropped.
I still love the way Neil Halstead constructs songs.
Library Addition: Signed First of George Romero’s The Living Dead
Friday, June 23rd, 2023A little out of line with what I usually buy, but I thought the limitation was low enough to be worth picking up.
Romero, George A. and Daniel Kraus. The Living Dead. Short Scary Tales (SST) Publications, 2023. First edition hardback, 322 of 400 copies signed by Suzanne Romero, Daniel Kraus, Vincenzo Natali and Francois Vaillancourt, a Fine copy in a Fine dust jacket. Hefty 736 page original novel set in Romero’s Living Dead universe. Now sold out from the publisher, though I do have one copy available through Lame Excuse Books.
Library Additions: Avram Davidson’s AD 100 1 and 2
Thursday, June 22nd, 2023I don’t generally pick up POD books, but here are two essential books only available as POD books.
Davidson, Avram. AD 100: Volume I and AD 100: Volume II. Or All the
Sea With Oysters Publishing, 2023. First edition trade paperback
originals (print on demand), as new. The Avram Davidson Society has set these up as Amazon print on demand originals. Together they include 100
unpublished or uncollected Avram Davidson stories. If you’re interested in picking them up, click the links above.
Library Addition: 1/100 Signed, Numbered Copies of Lucius Shepard’s The Ends of the Earth
Wednesday, June 21st, 2023Saw this and won it at a bargain price.
Shepard, Lucius. The Ends of the Earth. Arkham House, 1991. First edition hardback, #5 of 100 copies signed and numbered by Shepard, a Fine copy in a Fine dust jacket (with SIGNED sticker on spine). This is a post-first limited that Lucius did himself, much like Greg Bear did his 250 copy limited edition of The Wind From A Burning Woman. Chalker/Owings (2002), page 73 (where he says this edition was sold at $100 a pop). Joshi, Sixty Years of Arkham House 178 (where he doesn’t mention this limited edition). Nielsen, Arkham House Books: A Collector’s Guide 184 (he doesn’t mention this edition either). Supplements an unsigned copy (which I must not have had the last time Lucius came through Austin). Bought for $17.50 plus shipping (which is less than even the original Arkham House cover price).
Library Addition: Library of Weird Fiction: Frank Belknap Long
Tuesday, June 20th, 2023Got this on-sale from Centipede Press:
Long, Frank Belknap (S. T. Joshi, editor). Library of Weird Fiction: Frank Belknap Long. Centipede Press, 2022. First edition hardback, a Fine copy in a Fine dust jacket, still in shrinkwrap. Massive 800+ page collection of fiction by this contemporary and correspondent of H. P. Lovecraft. Bought for $40.
Library Additions: Two DAW Year’s Best PBOs
Monday, June 19th, 2023These are both parts of Year’s Best Series that I pick up as targets of opportunity. Both of these were bought as part of a small paperback lot from a friend who was culling his collection.
Library Addition: Two PS Publishing Firsts
Wednesday, June 14th, 2023Two PS Publishing titles, both bought from the publisher at the usual discount.
I have both of these available through Lame Excuse Books.
Library Additions: Firsts by Calvino, Gibson, Heinlein
Monday, June 12th, 2023Here are three first edition hardbacks, all bought at Half Price Books.
