Posts Tagged ‘signatures’
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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Wednesday, September 24th, 2025
Here’s a new Ted Chiang limited edition from Subterranean:
Chiang, Ted. Story of Your Life. Subterranean Press, 2025. First edition hardback, #212 of 500 signed, numbered copies, a Fine copy in a Fine slipcase, sans dust jacket, as issued, in publisher’s resealable bag. Chiang’s Nebula-winning novella about attempts to communicate with aliens who don’t perceive time as linear, and the basis of the 2016 movie Arrival. The number matches the number of my Subterranean edition of Exhalation. I also own an inscribed first of Stories of Your Life, his first short story collection, which contains this. Lots of people love this novella, but I don’t like it nearly as much as “Understand” or “Hell is the Absence of God” (also contained there). Bought from the publisher at the usual discount.
I will have cone copy of this available for sale in the next Lame Excuse Books catalog, which will probably be out late November.
Tags:Books, Limited Editions, Science Fiction, signatures, Subterranean Press, Ted Chiang
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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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Monday, September 1st, 2025
Not a title I was seeking to add to my library, but it included a couple of good signatures at a bargain price.
Asimov, Isaac, Martin S. Greenberg and Charles G. White, editors (Jack Vance, Larry Niven, etc.). Isaac Asimov’s Magical Worlds of Fantasy 1: Wizards. New American Library, 1983. First edition paperback original, a Fine- copy with slight wrinkle at spine head and trace of wear at points, signed by contributors Jack Vance and Larry Niven. Bought off eBay for $13.01.
Tags:anthology, Books, Fantasy, Isaac Asimov, Jack Vance, Larry Niven, signatures
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Monday, August 4th, 2025
Another Kathryn Cramer purchase.
Link, Kelly. 4 Stories. Jelly Ink, 2000. First edition chapbook original, a Fine copy, singed by Link. Jelly Ink was Link’s own publishing house before Small Beer Press. Bought for $35.
Tags:Books, chapbooks, Fantasy, Kelly Link, signatures
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Thursday, July 31st, 2025
Another Kathryn Cramer purchase:
Disch, Thomas M. The Businessman: A Tale of Terror. Harper & Row, 1984. First edition hardback, a Fine copy in a Fine dust jacket, signed by Disch. Cawthorn and Moorcock, Fantasy: The Hundred Best Novels 98. Pringle, Modern Fantasy: The Hundred Best Novels 88. Supplements an unsigned copy. Bought for $20.
Tags:Books, Horror, Kathryn Cramer, signatures, Thomas M. Disch
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Wednesday, July 30th, 2025
Two more Kathryn Cramer purchases:
Clement, Hal. Some Notes on Xi Bootis. Advent: Publishers, 1960. First edition chapbook original, one of 500 copies (per Chalker Ownings), a Fine copy save a penciled “118” at top rear left corner. Given away as a freebie at the 1960 Pittsburgh Worldcon, where Clement gave a speech on the topic of speculative fiction set in this star system. Chalker/Owings, page 5. Hassler, Hal Clement, page 57, footnote 47. Not in Currey. Bought for $45.
Clement, Hal. Still River. Ballantine Books, 1987. First edition hardback, a Fine copy in a Fine dust jacket, signed by Clement. Pringle, Ultimate Guide to Science Fiction, page 302. (“**”). Bought for $15.
Tags:Advent: Publishers, Books, chapbooks, Hal Clement, Kathryn Cramer, Science Fiction, signatures, Worldcon
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Tuesday, July 29th, 2025
Another purchase from Kathryn Cramer:
Asimov, Isaac, editor. Where Do We Go From Here? Doubleday, 1971. First edition hardback, a Fine- copy with one light thumbprint-sized blotch with a long sperm-like tail (binding flaw) to inside front cover, the ghost of that indention to the front free endpaper, slight bend at head, and front gutter just a little off from straight up and down (probably a binding flaw), in a Fine dust jacket, signed by Asimov. Reprint story anthology. Miller, Asimov: A Checklist, page 68. Currey, page 21. Bought for $100.
Tags:anthology, Books, David Hartwell, Isaac Asimov, Kathryn Cramer, Science Fiction, signatures
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Monday, July 28th, 2025
Kathryn Cramer, after having numerous problems selling David Hartwell’s book collection in other venues, is now selling some directly. I contacted her, haggled over prices, and eventually we agreed on a purchase of several books, this being the first listed here.
Wolfe, Gene. The Island of Doctor Death and Other Stories and Other Stories. Pocket Books, 1980. Proof (trade paperback format) of the paperback original first edition, a Fine copy, inscribed by Wolfe to his longtime editor Hartwell: “To Dave Hartwell, who/had sense enough to/separate the Doctor stories./Gene Wolfe”. Supplements another signed copy of this proof inscribed to me by Wolfe. In his Nova Express interview, Gene said Hartwell was the best editor he ever worked with. I suppose it’s a bit greedy to have two signed proof firsts of this, but I had long wanted an associational copy of a Wolfe title inscribed to Hartwell, and this is a pretty good one. Bought for $100.
Tags:Associational Copy, Books, David Hartwell, Fantasy, Gene Wolfe, Kathryn Cramer, proof, Science Fiction, signatures
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