Posts Tagged ‘John Crowley’

Library Additions: Four John Crowley Firsts

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. Two Chapters in a Family Chronicle. 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.

    Library Addition: Signed, Limited Edition of John Crowley’s Great Work of Time

    Tuesday, July 11th, 2023

    Crowley, John. Great Work of Time. Subterranean, 2023. First edition hardback, #219 of 500 signed, numbered copies, a Fine copy in a Fine dust jacket, new and unread. “Great Work of Time first appeared in John Crowley’s 1989 collection, Novelty. It was immediately recognized as a major addition to the literature of time travel, and went on to win the World Fantasy Award for Best Novella. More than thirty years after its initial publication, it remains as dazzling, dizzying and totally enthralling as ever.” I have a small number of these available through Lame Excuse Books.

    Library Additions: Three Subterranean Firsts

    Thursday, December 26th, 2019

    Bought from the publisher at various discounts:

  • Crowley, John. Reading Backwards: Essays & Reviews, 2005-2018. Subterranean Press, 2019. First edition hardback, #101 of 750 signed, numbered copies, a Fine copy in a Fine dust jacket.
  • Egan, Greg. The Best of Greg Egan. Subterranean Press, 2019. First edition hardback, #248 of 1,000 numbered copies, a Fine copy in a Fine dust jacket. Another giant career retrospective collection.
  • Resnick, Mike. Voyages: The Chronicles of Lucifer Jones, 1938-1941. Subterranean Press, 2017. First edition hardback, #128 of 1,000 signed, numbered copies, a Fine copy in a Fine dust jacket. Bought from the publisher during a 50% off sale.
  • I have copies of both the Crowley and the Egan available through Lame Excuse Books.

    Library Addition: Crowley’s Chemical Wedding

    Monday, November 21st, 2016

    Here’s an item I picked up backing the Kickstarter:

    Andreae, Johann Valentine and John Crowley. The Chemical Wedding by Christian Rosencreutz: A Romance in Eight Days. Small Beer Press, 2016. First edition hardback, a Fine copy, sans dust jacket, as issued. Crowley’s version of the classic work of allegorical, alchemical fiction originally published in Germany in 1616, introduced and annotated by Crowley with two color illustrations. Bought for backing the Kickstarter to the tune of $30.

    chemical-wedding

    Authors On “Great” Books They Hate

    Friday, August 12th, 2011

    Interesting piece, if only for the gratification of confirming that many other people loath Holden Caulfield every bit as much as I do.

    Biggest surprise: Several people (including John Crowley) naming Gravity’s Rainbow as their least-liked great book. I didn’t get far into it myself, but I’m not sure I gave it a fair shot. The problem is finding a big block of time (something I’m preciously short on) to give it another go, as I have the impression that it’s not amenable to the “one chapter a night” method I used to read Moby Dick

    (Hat tip: Bill Crider.)

    Pictures from the 2009 Readercon

    Sunday, February 28th, 2010

    I put these up on my Facebook account back before I had the blog, but I suspect many non-Facebook people would like a look at them as well.

    RCon2009 Gene Wolfe Rosemary Liz

    Gene Wolfe, Liz Hand, Rosemary Wolfe

    RCon2009 Chris Gordon

    Chris Nakashima-Brown, Gordon Van Gelder

    RCon2009 Chip Liz

    Chip Delany, Liz Hand

    RCon2009 Paul Howard

    Paul Di Filippo, Howard Waldrop, Jeri Bishop.

    RCon2009 Straub Crowley

    Peter Straub, John Crowley

    RCon2009 Clute GaryWolfe

    Gary K. Wolfe, John Clute