Posts Tagged ‘small press publishers’
Thursday, March 21st, 2024
Three more Subterranean firsts.
McDevitt, Jack. McDevitt, Jack. Doorway to the Stars. Subterranean Press, 2024. First edition hardback, #444 of 500 signed, numbered copies, a Fine copy in a Fine dust jacket. Novella about a stargate set in the same universe as Thunderbird. Bought at the usual dealer discount. I will have copies of this available in the next Lame Excuse Books catalog.
Powers, Tim. After Many a Summer. Subterranean Press, 2023. First edition hardback, a Fine copy in a Fine dust jacket. Novella. Bought for $20 (half price).
Reamy, Tom. Under the Hollywood Sign. Subterranean Press, 2023. First edition hardback, #395 of 750 numbered copies, a Fine copy in a Fine dust jacket. This is billed as “The Collected Stories of Tom Reamy,” and includes three works (“Dinosaurs,” “Sting!” and “Potiphee, Petey, and Me”) not in San Diego Lightfoot Sue, but doesn’t contain “Jenny’s Friends” or “The Wondrous Adventures of Grady Goodmonster or My Vacation,” two still uncollected Reamy stories. Bought for $22.50 (half price).
Tags:Books, Fantasy, Horror, Jack McDevitt, Science Fiction, small press publishers, Subterranean Press, Tim Powers, Tom Reamy
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Wednesday, March 20th, 2024
The first of two posts on recent Subterranean Press books that have come in.
Blumlein, Michael. Long: The Collected Novellas of Michael Blumlein. Subterranean Press, 2024. First edition hardback, #74 of 750 numbered copies, a Fine copy in a Fine dust jacket.
Blumlein, Michael. Short: The Collected Short Fiction of Michael Blumlein. Subterranean Press, 2024. First edition hardback, #74 of 750 numbered copies, a Fine copy in a Fine dust jacket. Both bought from the publisher at the usual discount. I will have precisely one set of these available in the next Lame Excuse Books catalog.
Carriger, Gail. Delightfully Deadly. Subterranean Press, 2022. First edition hardback, #971 of 1000 signed, numbered copies, a Fine copy in decorated boards, sans dust jacket, as issued. Bought for $32.50 (half price). Omnibus of three book previously published as trade paperback originals.
Gallagher, Stephen. Comparative Anatomy: The Best of Stephen Gallagher. Subterranean Press, 2022. First edition hardback, #198 of 1000 signed, numbered copies, a Fine copy in a Fine dust jacket. Bought for $22.50 (half price).
Tags:Books, Fantasy, Gail Carriger, Michael Blumlein, Science Fiction, small press publishers, Stephen Gallagher, Subterranean Press
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Friday, March 15th, 2024
Here’s another Lovecraft-themed anthology from PS in the mold of Pedersen’s earlier The Starry Wisdom Library.
Pedersen, Nate, editor. The Dagon Collection: An Auction Catalogue of Items Recovered in the Federal Raid on Innsmouth, Mass. PS Publishing, 2024. First edition hardback in decorated boards, a Fine copy in a Fine dust jacket. Anthology in the form of a mock auction catalog of Cthulhu Mythos related items from the Esoteric Order of Dagon, with contributions from F. Paul Wilson, Ramsey Campbell, etc.
I will have a small number of copies of this available in the next Lame Excuse Books catalog.
Tags:Books, Cthulhu, H. P. Lovecraft, Horror, Nate Pedersen, PS Publishing, small press publishers
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Wednesday, March 6th, 2024
Another short-run Dragonstairs chapbook I managed to grab:
Swanwick, Michael. Phases of the Sun/Phases of the Moon. Dragonstairs Press, 2020 (not offered for sale until 2024). First edition accordion-fold chapbook original (Phases of the Sun goes one way, and then you flip it over and Phases of the Moon goes the other), a Fine copy. Bought for $60 from Dragonstairs and sold out within two minutes.
Tags:chapbooks, Dragonstairs Press, Fantasy, Michael Swanwick, small press publishers
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Monday, March 4th, 2024
These were part of an auction lot:
Disch, Thomas M. The Brave Little Toaster Goes To Mars. Doubleday, 1988. First edition hardback, a Fine- copy with previous owner’s name on front free endpaper, in a Fine, Mylar-protected dust jacket. Sequel to The Brave Little Toaster (which I have an inscribed copy of).
Disch, Thomas M. The Silver Pillow: A Tale of Witchcraft. Mark V. Ziesing, 1987. First edition hardback, #37 of 250 numbered copies signed by Disch and artist Harry O. Morris, a Fine copy in a Fine dust jacket. Chalker/Owings, page 490. Replaces a slightly less attractive copy.
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Monday, February 26th, 2024
These four books were offered as The John Crowley Conway Miscellany set on Kickstarter. Each has a different trim size.
Crowley, John. Seventy-Nine Dreams. Ninpin Press, 2024. First edition trade paperback original, a Fine copy. A dream journal. 5″ tall by 5″ wide.
Crowley, John. The Sixties: A Forged Diary. Ninpin Press, 2024. First edition trade paperback original, a Fine copy. A reconstruction of Crowley’s life in New York City in the 60s. “After taking a job with a photography studio, he soon crosses paths with the likes of Andy Warhol and Richard Avedon, Claudia Cardinale and Raquel Welch.” 8″ tall by 6″ wide.
Crowley, John. Two Chapters in a Family Chronicle. Ninpin Press, 2024. First edition trade paperback original, a Fine copy. Two stories, “Percy and Lulu Go to Vermont” and “Poker Night at the Elks Club 1938” that “link three generations of John Crowley’s family.” 7″ tall by 5″ wide.
Crowley, John. Seventy-Four Dreams. Ninpin Press, 2024. First edition trade paperback original, a Fine copy, with signature plate by Crowley laid in (only one per set). Two speeches, “Practicing the Arts of Peace and “The Uses of Allegory.” 6″ tall by 4″ wide.
The four books together can be laid out to form a single image. Because the books are too large to fit on my scanner, I have copied the image from the Kickstarter page.
I will have a small number of sets of these (with the signature plate) in the next Lame Excuse Books catalog.
Tags:Books, Fantasy, John Crowley, Kickstarter, Science Fiction, signatures, small press publishers
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Monday, February 19th, 2024
Another signed Subterranean Lansdale first.
Lansdale, Joe R. The Senior Girls Bayonet Drill Team. Subterranean, 2023 (stated; received early 2024). First edition hardback, #371 of 1250 signed, numbered copies, a Fine copy in a Fine dust jacket. The latest Lansdale short story collection. I’ll have copies of this available in the next Lame Excuse Books catalog.
Tags:Books, Horror, Joe R. Lansdale, Mystery, small press publishers, Subterranean Press
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Tuesday, January 2nd, 2024
These were both bought off eBay.
Bradbury, Ray. A Chapbook for Burnt-Out Priests, Rabbis and Ministers. Cemetery Dance, 2001. First edition trade hardback, a Fine copy in a Fine dust jacket, signed by Bradbury. Bought off eBay for $21.50. Replaces an unsigned copy and supplements a slipcased signed/limited edition copy.
King, Stephen, Richard Chizmar, and Stewart O’Nan. A Face in the Crowd b/w The Longest December. Cemetery Dance, 2023. First hardback edition and first edition thus (with King and O’Nan’s “A Face in the Crowd” previously only available in a eBook edition, and Chizmar’s “The Longest December” stating “Expanded Version,” but ISFDB doesn’t show a previous edition), a Fine copy in a Fine dust jacket. Two novellas. Bought off eBay for $20 plus shipping.
Tags:Cemetery Dance, Horror, Ray Bradbury, Richard Chizmar, small press publishers, Stephen King
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Saturday, December 30th, 2023
All of these were Half Price Books finds, all firsts, and all but the Sagan and Wong came from Austin stores. The Sagan and Wong came from Dallas Metroplex area stores, but I pulled them into this post because they go in bookcases I’m reorganizing.
Gaiman, Neil. Norse Mythology. W. W. Norton, 2017. First edition hardback, a Fine copy in a Fine dust jacket. Bought for $12.99.
Robinson, Kim. New York 2040. Orbit, 2017. First edition hardback, a Fine- copy in a Fine- dust jacket with slight bumping at head and a trace of edgewear. Bought for $9.99.
Sagan, Carl. Contact. Simon and Schuster, 1985. First edition hardback, a Fine- copy with slight bumping at head, slight dust soiling to outer page block, and slight bunting of points, in a Fine- dust jacket with slight bumping at head, slight wear at points, and a trace of staining to blind side. Sagan’s only novel, and the basis of the 1997 film. Bought for $8.49.
Smith, Clark Ashton (Scott Connors and Ron Hilger, editors). The Miscellaneous Writings of Clark Ashton Smith. Night Sahde Books, 2011. First edition hardback, a Fine copy in a Fine dust jacket. I already had the five volume collected fantasies, but somehow never picked this one up, perhaps because Night Shade was so horrible at fulfillment. Bought for $14.99.
Wong, David (pseudonym of Jason Pargin). Futuristic Violence and Fancy Suits. St. Martin’s, 2015. First edition hardback, a Fine copy in a Fine- dust jacket with one tiny wrinkle at heel and a trace of wear at top points. Bought for $13.49.
Unusually for Half Price Books, three of these titles had aftermarket labels over the UPC code that needed a fair amount of Bestine and elbow grease to remove…
Tags:Books, Carl Sagan, Clark Ashton Smith, David Wong, Fantasy, Horror, Kim Stanley Robinson, Neil Gaiman, Night Shade Books, Science Fiction, small press publishers
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Friday, December 22nd, 2023
These came in a while back, but I haven’t had room to shelve them until I finished finishing my latest bookcase.
Tiptree, James Jr. (Alice Sheldon). The Voice That Murmurs in the Darkness. Subterranean Press, 2023. First edition hardback, #389 of 1,000 numbered copies, a Fine copy in a Fine dust jacket and publisher’s plastic bag. Includes out of print and previously uncollected work, including the essay “How to Have An Absolutely Hilarious Heart Attack” and the story “Beam Us Home.”
Waldrop, Howard (George R. R. Martin and Bradley Denton, editors). H’ard Starts. Subterranean Press, 2023. First edition hardback, #414 of 750 numbered copies signed by Waldrop, Martin and Denton. Collection of early, rare Waldrop stories from a wide variety sources, including a 25 copy self-published story from 1966! (I have a copy and provided George with the text.) Now out of print from the publisher.
Tags:Books, Bradley Denton, George R. R. Martin, Howard Waldrop, James Tiptree Jr., Science Fiction, small press publishers, Subterranean Press
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