Two more Houston Half Price Books finds, the only connection being two Texas authors I know personally.
Posts Tagged ‘Mysterious Press’
Library Additions: Lansdale, Sterling Firsts
Friday, January 9th, 2026Library Addition: Signed First of Gahan Wilson’s Everybody’s Favorite Duck
Tuesday, May 21st, 2019Another 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.
Library Addition: Signed First of Robert Bloch’s The King of Terrors
Thursday, November 17th, 2016Another signed first edition I was able to pick up cheap:
Bloch, Robert. The King of Terrors. Mysterious Press, 1977. First edition hardback, #129 of 250 signed, numbered copies, a Fine copy in a Fine dust jacket and Near Fine slipcase with a few white marks to black slipcase at heel. Currey A, page 46. Flanagan, Robert Bloch: A Bio-Bibliography, page 49. Won off eBay for $21.50. I also have Bloch’s Out of the Mouths of Graves by the same publisher in the limited edition.
