Posts Tagged ‘Gahan Wilson’

Library Addition: Gahan Wilson’s A Little Purple Book of Phantasies

Saturday, September 21st, 2019

Picked up another in the Little Library series:

Wilson, Gahan. A Little Purple Book of Phantasies. Borderlands Press, 2019. First edition hardback, #88 of 500 numbered copies signed by editor Stuart David Schiff, a Fine copy in decorated boards (a Wilson illustration, natch), sans dust jacket, as issued. Short story collection, something of a best of collection, with a smattering of cartoons. Out of print before publication. I’ll have copies for sale in the next Lame Excuse Books catalog, due out in November.

Looks like it’s past time to pick up another cheap scanner at Sam’s…

Library Addition: Signed First of Gahan Wilson’s Everybody’s Favorite Duck

Tuesday, May 21st, 2019

Another signed first, this by an author more famous as an illustrator:

Wilson, Gahan. Everybody’s Favorite Duck. Mysterious Press, 1988. First edition hardback, a Fine copy in a Fine dust jacket. Inscribed by Wilson: “To/David-/Gahan/Wilson/and/the/duck” with an arrow pointing to a drawing of a duck. Looks like a literary mystery/adventure pastiche of multiple authors, much in the manner of Roger Zelazny’s A Night in the Lonesome October (or vice versa, as this precedes the Zelazny by five years), which, interestingly enough, was also illustrated by Gahan Wilson. Bought off the Internet for $17.

This is the second book I own remarqued by Wilson, the first being the lettered state of the Subterranean Press edition of Neil Gaiman’s M is for Magic, which has a drawing of a bat.

Sadly, Wilson is evidently suffering from dementia and not publishing cartoons anymore.