Posts Tagged ‘small press publishers’
Tuesday, October 14th, 2025
Another Dragonstairs chapbook:
Swanwick, Michael, with Marianne Porter. Under A Harvest Moon. Dragonstairs Press, 2025. First edition chapbook original, #5 of 80 copies signed by both Swanwick and Porter, a Fine copy. “A very short, dark and romantic story of love and death,” and an outgrowth of Swanwick’s online ‘fallen leaves” project. Bought from the publisher at the usual discount.
I will have copies of this available in the next Lame Excuse Books catalog, probably out next month.
Tags:Books, chapbooks, Dragonstairs Press, Fantasy, signatures, small press publishers
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Monday, October 6th, 2025
Another signed, limited edition bought off eBay at a bargain price.
Dann, Jack (with Susan Casper, Gardner Dozois, Gregory Frost, Jack C. Haldeman II, Barry N. Malzberg, Michael Swanwick, Janeen Webb and George Zebrowski). The Fiction Factory. Golden Gryphon, 2005. First edition hardback, #65 of 100 copies signed by all the contributors (with wife Barbara Delaplace signing for the late Haldeman), a Fine copy in a Fine dust jacket and a Fine slipcase. Collection of collaborative stories, much like Dozois’ own Slow Dancing Through Time, including the great “Down Among the Dead Men.” Supplements a trade copy. Bought off eBay for $13, a whopping great discount off the original offering price of $75.00, especially considering that Casper, Dozois, Malzberg and Zebrowski are all dead.
Tags:Barry Malzberg, Books, eBay, Gardner Dozois, George Zebrowski, Golden Gryphon, Gregory Frost, J. K. Potter, Jack Dann, Janeen Webb, Michael Swanwick, Science Fiction, signatures, small press publishers, Susan Casper
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Tuesday, September 30th, 2025
Another signed/limited edition bought at a bargain price.
Niven, Larry. The Time of the Warlock. SteelDragon Press, 1984. First edition hardback, #185 of 200 signed, numbered copies, a Fine copy in a Fine, Mylar-protected dust jacket. Includes all of The Magic Goes Away and additional stories set in the same universe. Supplements an unsigned copy. Chalker/Owings, page 418. Bought off eBay for $23.50, less than the original limited edition list price of $30.
Tags:Books, eBay, Fantasy, Larry Niven, Limited Editions, signatures, small press publishers, SteelDragon Press
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Monday, September 22nd, 2025
This was sent to me as a friend of the press:
Swanwick, Michael. Life: A User’s Manual. Dragonstairs Press, 2025. First edition chapbook original, #6 of 40 signed, numbered copies produced for Confluence 2025, a Fine copy, with tiny additional chapbook inscribed “for a friend of the Press” laid in. Vignettes on the stages of life.
Tags:Books, chapbooks, Dragonstairs Press, Michael Swanwick, Science Fiction, signatures, small press publishers
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Wednesday, September 17th, 2025
It’s been two years since the last volume, but the latest Centipede Press Lafferty volume finally showed up.
Lafferty, R.A. The Man Who Lost His Magic: The Collected Short Fiction Volume 8. First edition hardback, #40 of 300 numbered copies signed by introduction author Gary K. Wolfe.
Unlike previous volumes, this one came shipped in a plastic bag much larger than the book rather than being shrinkwrapped. It means that I need to carefully tape everything up before I can even get it on my shelf next to the other volumes.
Tags:Books, Centipede Press, Fantasy, R. A. Lafferty, Science Fiction, small press publishers
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Tuesday, September 9th, 2025
Six Joe R. Lansdale-related items bought from three different sources.
Burroughs, Edgar Rice and Joe R. Lansdale. Tarzan: The Lost Adventure: Book One. Dark Horse, 1995. First edition trade paperback graphic novel (I assume it’s a first edition, as I see no additional printing listed), a Fine copy. First of four issues of a Tarzan novel started by Burroughs and completed by Lansdale. These are more illustrated chapters rather than an actual graphic novel. Isajanko, A016.a. Supplements the later hardback first edition.
Burroughs, Edgar Rice and Joe R. Lansdale. Tarzan: The Lost Adventure: Book Two. Dark Horse, 1995. First edition trade paperback graphic novel (no additional printing listed), a Fine- copy with slight edgewear. Second of four issues of a Tarzan novel started by Burroughs and completed by Lansdale. Isajanko, A016.a.
Burroughs, Edgar Rice and Joe R. Lansdale. Tarzan: The Lost Adventure: Book three. Dark Horse, 1995. First edition trade paperback graphic novel (no additional printing listed), a Fine copy. Third of four issues of a Tarzan novel started by Burroughs and completed by Lansdale. Isajanko, A016.a.
Burroughs, Edgar Rice and Joe R. Lansdale. Tarzan: The Lost Adventure: Book Four. Dark Horse, 1995. First edition trade paperback graphic novel (no additional printing listed), a Near Fine- copy with slight edgewear, thin crease to front middle near spine, and thin crease running down front cover near spine. Fourth of four issues of a Tarzan novel started by Burroughs and completed by Lansdale. Isajanko, A016.a. All four of these bought from that Facebook seller for $15.
Ferris, John, Stephen Gallagher and Joe R. Lansdale. Night Visions 8. Dark Harvest, 1990. First edition hardback, #491 of 600 signed, numbered copies, a Fine copy in a Fine-, Mylar-protected dust jacket with a trace of edgewear at bottom rear, in a Fine slipcase. The second to last Dark Harvest volume of the original Night Visions anthology series, each volume of which includes original stories from three writers. Supplements a trade edition signed by Lansdale (I have all 12 volumes, including the three done by Subterranean). Bought for $30, a substantial discount off the original $55 price.
Note: The white streak at upper right is dust jacket glare.
Tags:Books, Dark Harvest, Dark Horse, graphic novel, Horror, Joe R. Lansdale, Pandi Press, small press publishers, Tarzan
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Thursday, September 4th, 2025
Another purchase from that Facebook seller.
(Lovecraft, H. P.) S. T. Joshi, editor. Primal Sources: Essays on Lovecraft. Hippocampus Press, 2003. First edition trade paperback original (stated, though I think all Hippocampus Press trade paperbacks are POD books now), a Fine- copy with first page slightly dog-eared at bottom. Joshi essays on various Lovecraftian topics. Joshi, H.P. Lovecraft: A Comprehensive Bibliography III-C-65. Joshi, 200 Books by S. T. Joshi, I.23. Bought for $10.
Tags:Cthulhu, H. P. Lovecraft, Hippocampus Press, Horror, S. T. Joshi, small press publishers
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Wednesday, August 27th, 2025
Another purchase from that Facebook seller:
Shirley, John. Lovecraft Alive!. Hippocampus Press, 2016. First edition trade paperback original (stated, though I think all Hippocampus Press trade paperbacks are POD books now), a Fine copy. Collection of Shirley’s Lovecraftian stories. Bought for $10.
Tags:Books, Cthulhu, H. P. Lovecraft, Hippocampus Press, Horror, John Shirley, small press publishers
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Thursday, August 21st, 2025
Three more books from that Facebook seller:
(Howard, Robert E.) Derie, Bobby. Weird Talers: Essays on Robert E. Howard and Other. Hippocampus Press, 2019. First edition trade paperback original (though I think all Hippocampus Press trade paperbacks are POD books now), a Fine copy. Bought for $5.
(Lovecraft, H.P.) Mariconda, Steven J. H. P. Lovecraft: Art, Artifact, and Reality. Hippocampus Press, 2013. First edition trade paperback original (though I think all Hippocampus Press trade paperbacks are POD books now), a Near Fine+ copy with a trace of light staining to page block edges and few light spots of staining to first few pages, and a trace of wear at points. Bought for $10.
Smith, Clark Ashton, and George Sterling (David E. Schultz and S. T. Joshi, editors). The Shadow of the Unattained: The Letters of George Sterling and Clark Ashton Smith. Hippocampus Press, 2019. First edition trade paperback original (though I think all Hippocampus Press trade paperbacks are POD books now), a Fine copy. Sterling was the California poet who mentored and championed the work of the young Clark Ashton Smith. Bought for $10.
I’m pretty good at picking up the Hippocampus Press hardbacks before the sell out, but I don’t pick up every trade paperback on publication (and when I do pick them up, they tend to hang around in Lame Excuse Books stock). These were all at good prices.
Tags:Books, Clark Ashton Smith, David E. Schultz, Fantasy, George Sterling, H. P. Lovecraft, Hippocampus Press, Horror, Print-on-Demand, Robert E. Howard, S. T. Joshi, small press publishers, Weird Tales
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Tuesday, August 19th, 2025
Another Borderlands Little Book:
Nesbit, Edith. A Little Fuchsia Book of Fantasy. Borderlands Press, 2025. First edition hardback, #463 of 350 numbered copies (Borderlands: “we only print 350 copies but if anyone has matching numbers above 350, we make sure they continue to get it”) signed by editor Hal Bodner, a Fine copy, sans dust jacket, as issued. Ten stories (including retellings of Hamlet and Macbeth) from an English author better known for children’s books.
I will have a small number of copies of this available in the next Lame Excuse Books catalog (probably November December).
Tags:Books, Borderlands Press, Fantasy, small press publishers
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