Posts Tagged ‘broadsheet’

Library Addition: Signed Brian Aldiss Broadsheet Juniper

Wednesday, March 25th, 2020

I bid on this, along with a few other items, from Quinn’s Auction Gallery.

Aldiss, Brian W. Juniper. No publisher listed, 1985. First edition poster-sized broadsheet, #13 of 300 copies signed by Aldiss and designer Patrick Eddington, a Fine copy. Not in Reginald. Not in the Locus database. Not (yet) in ISFDB. (This edition predates the earliest listing for “Juniper” by a year.) Bought for $36 plus a hefty $30 in shipping at auction. (They originally tried to charge me $120 for shipping and I went “Homey don’t play that.”)

(The dark spots at the top are bookends I’m using to hold down the broadsheet for photographing.)

I’ve picked up several broadsheets over the years, but this one, at 30″ x 22 1/2″, is by far the largest.

Library Additions: Two Signed Ray Bradbury Christmas Broadsheets

Monday, June 25th, 2018

Two more signed Ray Bradbury Christmas broadsheets, both bought off eBay:

  • Bradbury, Ray. Christmas Greetings (AKA Scanning the Universe. Self-published, no date (but 1984). First edition broadsheet original, one sheet of paper, a Near Fine copy, folded for mailing. Inscribed: “Stephen! Ray Bradbury.” Yet another Bradbury poem referencing George Bernard Shaw. Credited to Ray and Marguerite Bradbury. Not sure if this has been reprinted anywhere. Bought off eBay for $35 plus shipping.

  • Bradbury, Ray. A Christmas Wish 1994 (AKA Go Not With Ruins In Your Mind). Self published, 1994. First edition broadsheet original, one sheet of paper, a Near Fine copy with a paper clip indention at top left. Inscribed by Bradbury: “Dear/Holly!/[line]/Happy New Year!/[line]/Ray Bradbury/ 1/3/95”. Credited to Maggie and Ray Bradbury. Bought off eBay for $34.89 plus shipping.

  • Library Addition: Ray Bradbury’s Christmas Wishes 1986

    Tuesday, August 15th, 2017

    Slowly but surely collecting all of these:

    Bradbury, Ray. Christmas Wishes 1986. Self-published, 1986. First edition 8 1/2 x 11″ broadsheet, folded once (as mailed), otherwise Fine- with slight wrinkling. inscribed by Bradbury: “Hans N!/Ray Bradbury”. A one page poem, like all Bradbury’s Christmas broadsheets. This one says “From Maggie & Ray Bradbury,” but I’m not sure it was actually co-written by his wife. Bought off eBay for about $35.

    Bradbury Christmas 1986

    Library Addition: Signed 1989 Ray Bradbury Christmas Broadsheet

    Wednesday, January 11th, 2017

    Picked up another signed Ray Bradbury Christmas broadsheet off eBay:

    Bradbury, Ray. A Christmas Wish 1989: The Bread of Beggars, The Wine of Christ. Privately printed, 1989. First edition broadsheet, a Fine copy, inscribed by the author: “Tim!—Love!—Ray!” Bought off eBay for $34 plus shipping.

    bradbury-christmas-1989

    The slight shadowing on the left side is a scanner artifact, probably a result of leaving it in the protective plastic while scanning it…

    Library Additions: Three Signed Ray Bradbury Items

    Tuesday, March 15th, 2016

    Picked up a few more items signed by Ray Bradbury:

  • Bradbury, Ray. A Christmas Wish 1988 (If Only We Had Taller Been). Privately printed, 1988. First edition Christmas broadsheet, a Fine copy. Inscribed by Bradbury: “For Rev. Gerald Watt, C.R./With fond good wishes/for/1989/Ray Bradbury.” Bought for $28 off eBay.

    Bradbury Christmas 88

  • Bradbury, Ray. A Christmas Wish 1989 (The Bread of Beggars, The Wine of Christ). Privately printed, 1989. First edition Christmas broadsheet, a Fine copy. Inscribed by Bradbury: “For Rev. Watt. Thanks for Asking!/Love!/Ray/Bradbury/ 5/6/90.” Bought for $29 off eBay.

    Bradbury Christmas 89

  • (Bradbury, Ray) Weist, Jerry. Bradbury: An Illustrated Life. William Morrow, 2002. First edition hardback (precedes the Donald M. Grant limited edition by two years), a Fine-/Fine- copy with very slight bumping at head and heel. Inscribed by Bradbury: “To all the/Grand Tubers;Ray Bradbury.” Oversized illustrated history of Bradbury’s work. Bought for $27.10 off eBay.
  • I now have three of the Bradbury Christmas broadsheets (which he sent to friends as Christmas gifts/cards), all signed.

    Library Addition: Sigend Ray Bradbury Broadsheet

    Friday, June 26th, 2015

    Another neat signed ray Bradbury item I picked up:

    Bradbury, Ray. Christmas Greetings 2008. First edition broadsheet, 8 1/2″ x 11″ card-stock, a Fine- copy with extremely light bumping at right tips. Signed by Bradbury. One of the many yearly Christmas greetings Bradbury used to send out to friends. Bought for $25 off eBay.

    Bradbury Christmas 2008

    Now I just need to get a frame for it…

    Library Additions: The Folio Edition of Neil Gaiman’s The Rhyme Maidens Broadsheet

    Wednesday, May 16th, 2012

    I recently got in the Folio edition of Neil Gaiman’s Rhyme Maidens broadsheet just published by Biting Dog Press. It’s unbelievably huge; in fact, it’s slightly taller than the Centipede Press A Lovecraft Retrospective: Artists Inspired by H. P. L. book. There were only fifty of them made. This is about the point where it stops being a book and starts being a fetish object.

    Here’s a shot of the folio slipcase sitting next to the Subterranean Press edition of M is for Magic (which I still have copies of available for sale) for the sake of size comparison.

    And here it is spread open:

    It looks slightly blurry because it was shipped with tissue paper across both panels to protect it. It’s the same poem, in different colors and with a different illustration, on each page.

    This edition sold out from the publisher.

    I’m going to have one copy of Folio edition for my next Lame Excuse Books catalog, along with one copy of the regular broadsheet.