Three Joe R. Lansdale chapbooks purchased from that same private collector:
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Library Additions: Three Lansdale Chapbooks
Friday, October 8th, 2021Library Addition: Lettered Edition of Joe R. Lansdale’s The Bottoms
Thursday, September 30th, 2021Still another Lansdale lettered edition bought from that same private collector:
Lansdale, Joe R. The Bottoms. Subterranean Press, 2000. First edition hardback, letter R of 26 signed, lettered copies, a Fine leatherbound copy in a Fine dust jacket and Fine traycase with full color illustration mounted inside front lid. The Subterranean edition was the true first edition, preceding the Mysterious Press edition by several months. Edgar Award winner for Best Novel. Bought for $300 from a private collector, which is just twice list price for the regular numbered edition.
The plastic illustration protector shows both glare and the shadow of my hands holding the iPhone to get the photo. (Also some glare off the dust jacket protector on the book itself.)
Library Addition: Lettered Edition of Joe R. Lansdale’s The Long Ones
Wednesday, September 29th, 2021Another lettered copy purchased from that private collector:
Lansdale, Joe R. The Long Ones. Necro Publications, 1999. First edition hardback, letter R of 26 signed, leatherbound lettered copies, a Fine copy in a Fine traycase, sans dust jacket, as issued. In addition to the leather binding and traycase, this edition features an inserted (not attached) printed ribbon with title and author, a color frontispiece illustration, and several inserted black and white illustrations not in the ordinary numbered edition. Bought from a private collector for $300.
Library Addition: Lettered Edition of Joe R. Lansdale’s Texas Night Riders
Monday, September 27th, 2021More from that private collector purchase:
Lansdale, Joe R. (originally writing as Ray Slater). Texas Night Riders. Subterranean Press, 1997. First edition hardback thus and first U.S. hardback edition (preceded by the PBO and the Chivers large print hardback), copy P of 26 signed and lettered copies, a Fine copy bound in quarter-leather, in a Fine- patterned slipcase with slight rubbing to corners, sans dust jacket, as issued. This was early in Subterranean’s history, and they were still using the 4 x 3 acrostic spine logo. Bought for $220.
Library Addition: Lettered Edition of Joe R. Lansdale’s Waltz of Shadows
Thursday, September 23rd, 2021Here’s the first of several Lansdale items I obtained from a fellow collector who was selling off his collection:
Lansdale, Joe R. Waltz of Shadows. Subterranean Press, 1999. First edition hardback, letter R of 52 signed, lettered copies, a Fine copy in a Fine dust jacket and a Fine- traycase with a few small, shallow, random indentations. The Lost Lansdale Volume One. Chalker/Owings (2002), page 855. Unnoted by Chalker/Owings (or my proof copy of The World Lansdalian), this edition is bound in a very attractive, deep purple cloth rather than the light blue of the trade edition. Bought for $190 ($5 less than cover).
Library Addition: Lettered Edition of Joe R. Lansdale’s The Nightrunners
Wednesday, September 22nd, 2021Here’s a book I’ve wanted for quite a while, and finally pulled the trigger on:
Lansdale, Joe R. The Nightrunners. Dark Harvest, 1987. First edition hardback, letter X of 26 signed, lettered copies, a Fine copy in white leather and a wooden slipcase (AKA “slipcrate”), sans dust jacket, as issued. (Note: The wooden slipcase has three small notches at the back, but given the uniform staining, they were there when the book left the publisher.) Lansdale’s landmark splatterpunk novel, featuring two very bad boys and The God of the Razor. Chalker/Owings, page 120 (Jack was not a fan of the novel). Bought off a fellow Biblio dealer for $315.
The scan doesn’t do justice to the silver highlighting on the lettering. It’s a very attractive book.
Note that this is the third Dark Harvest “slipcrate” edition I’ve added to my library, along with George R. R. Martin’s Portraits of His Children and Chet Williamson’s Dreamthorpe.
I would sort of like to pick up all the other Dark Harvest “slipcrate” lettered editions, but not at the prices people are currently asking for them.
Note: I’ve recently picked up a lot of Lansdale lettered editions, so watch this space…
Library Addition: Gnome Press Anthology The Robot and the Man
Friday, September 17th, 2021Another book from that bulk purchase I’m cataloging:
Library Addition: Three Signed Firsts
Wednesday, September 15th, 2021Another one from the bulk purchase:
Library Additions: Three NewCon Press Firsts
Friday, September 3rd, 2021These three came in just before I sent out the book catalog.
All three of these are still available through Lame Excuse Books.
Library Addition: Fritz Leiber’s Demons Of The Upper Air
Tuesday, August 24th, 2021Another day, another chapbook:
Leiber, Fritz. The Demons of the Upper Air. Roy A. Squires, 1969. First edition chapbook original, 143 of 275 copies number in Arabic numerals, a Fine copy in Fine wrappers, additional inscribed “To/Chris/from/Fritz,” in a Fine original printed envelope, and even the original stiff cardboard mailer from Squires! Poetry. Squires always did beautiful work. Chalker/Owings, page 588. Bought off eBay for $50.
