Another Dragonstairs chapbook: Swanwick, Michael. A Fantasist’s Guide to Venice. Dragonstairs Press, 2025. First edition chapbook original, #30 of 79 signed, numbered copies, a Fine copy. Collection of short essays on various fantastic elements of Venice, in fact and fiction, following the author’s visit there. Note that this is one of at least four different… Continue reading Library Addition: Michael Swanwick’s A Fantasist’s Guide to Venice
Month: March 2025
Game Library Addition: Monty Python’s Cocurricular Mediaeval Reenactment Programme
I did a fair amount of wargaming in my youth, but have done piratically none since graduating college. Still, every now and then a boardgaming Kickstarter strikes my fancy, as this one, vaguely based on Monty Python and the Holy Grail and first announced back in 2022, did. I think this is the first game… Continue reading Game Library Addition: Monty Python’s Cocurricular Mediaeval Reenactment Programme
Library Addition: WingNuts in Time and Space
Quite a bit different than a lot of the items I catalog here: Harvia, Teddy (David Thayer). WingNuts in Time and Space. Self-published, 2025. First edition comic book fanzine original, #90 of 200 copies, a Fine copy, with letter from the author/illustrator laid in. An eight page comic from the award-winning fan artist featuring his… Continue reading Library Addition: WingNuts in Time and Space
Library Addition: Jules Verne’s Little Blue Book of Icy Peril
Though I have several H. G. Wells first editions, I have comparatively little by Verne. Not only do first English language editions of Verne not pop up at used bookstores in central Texas, I haven’t even chanced across any firsts of the Naval Institute Press translations (which evidently include material omitted from all previous translations).… Continue reading Library Addition: Jules Verne’s Little Blue Book of Icy Peril
Library Additions: Signed PS Blaylock and Campbell Firsts
Two PS Publishing signed, limited hardback editions that came in from the publisher. Blaylock, James P. The Invisible Woman. PS Publishing, 2024. First edition hardback, #76 of 200 signed, numbered hardbacks, a Fine copy in decorated boards and a Fine dust jacket. Set in the same universe as Pennies From Heaven. Campbell, Ramsey. The Inhabitant… Continue reading Library Additions: Signed PS Blaylock and Campbell Firsts
Library Additions: Four Donald M. Grant Deluxe Conans
Here are the final books from that big Robert E. Howard purchase. Howard, Robert E. Red Nails. Donald M. Grant, 1975. First edition hardback, a Fine copy in a Fine- dust jacket was one pinprick black dot on front of dust jack. Fourth in the Deluxe Conan series. Currey, page 251. Chalker/Owings, page 217-18. Howard,… Continue reading Library Additions: Four Donald M. Grant Deluxe Conans
Library Additions: Three Grant Deluxe Conans
Getting toward the end of cataloging that large Robert E. Howard purchase. The Grant Deluxe Conan series was something I never really planned to collect, as I always found the covers drab, and it overlapped significantly with the Conan volumes (namely the Gnome Press firsts) I already had. But these were part of the lot… Continue reading Library Additions: Three Grant Deluxe Conans
Library Additions: Four Robert E. Howard Firsts
More from that large Robert E. Howard purchase, three from Donald M. Grant: Howard, Robert E. Black Vulmea’s Vengence. Donald M. Grant, 1976. First edition hardback, a Fine-/Fine- copy with trace of wear at head, heel and points. Pirate stories. Currey, page 248. Chalker/Owings, page 218. Howard, Robert E. Echoes from an Iron Harp. Donald… Continue reading Library Additions: Four Robert E. Howard Firsts
Library Additions: Four Robert E. Howard FAX Firsts
Four more additions from that large Robert E. Howard purchase, all from FAX Collector’s Editions, three of which are still in the shrink-wrap. Howard, Robert E. The Incredible Adventures of Dennis Dorgan. FAX Collector’s Editions, 1974. First edition hardback, a Fine-/Fine- copy with slight bumping and edgewear at head, heel and a trace of wear… Continue reading Library Additions: Four Robert E. Howard FAX Firsts
Library Additions: Four Robert E. Howard Hardbacks
More books from that large Robert E. Howard purchase. Howard, Robert E. Always Comes Evening. Underwood Miller, 1977. First edition thus, a reprint of the Arkham House edition #116 of 200 leatherbound copies signed by artist Keiko Nelson, a Fine copy in a Fine-, first state (dragon) dust jacket with a short hairline crack and… Continue reading Library Additions: Four Robert E. Howard Hardbacks