Posts Tagged ‘Science Fiction’
Friday, April 26th, 2024
Another signed, limited Dragonstairs Press signed Swanwick chapbook.
Swanwick, Michael. Comicosmics. Dragonstairs Press, 2024. First edition chapbook original, #42 of 50 signed, numbered copies, a Fine copy. Short shorts in the manner of Italo Calvino. I should have one unspoken for copy available in the next Lame Excuse Books catalog.
Tags:Books, chapbooks, Dragonstairs Press, Fantasy, Limited Editions, Michael Swanwick, Science Fiction, small press publishers
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Monday, April 22nd, 2024
Another Lansdale limited edition came in:
(Lansdale, Joe R.) Christopher Golden and Brian Keene, editors. Joe R Lansdale’s The Drive-In: Multiplex Thunderstorm Books, 2024. First hardback edition, #230 of 350 signed, numbered copies, a Fine copy in a Fine dust jacket. Preceded by the Pandi Press trade paperback original. Original anthology set in Lansdale’s Drive-In universe, including stories by Joe & Kasey Lansdale, Josh Malerman, David J. Schow, Nancy Collins, Gary Braunbeck, Owen King, etc. Bought from the publisher at the usual discount.
This is now sold out from the publisher, but I will have copies of this available in the next Lame Excuse Books catalog, and I still have copies of Joe and Kasey Lansdale’s Dark Kin from the same publisher, which is also sold out, still available at cover price.
Tags:Books, Gary Braunbeck, Horror, Joe R. Lansdale, Josh Malerman, Kasey Lansdale, Owen King, Science Fiction, small press publishers, Thunderstorm Books
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Monday, April 8th, 2024
Two more Half Price Books finds:
Jacobs, Harvey. The Egg of the Glak and Other Stories. Harper & Row, 1969. First edition hardback, a Near Fine+ copy with slight bumping at head, heel, and top rear point, in a Very Good dust jacket I’ll replacing with the better dust jacket on my existing copy, inscribed by Jacobs: “To Polly Lyons,/with all good wishes/for sunthings and/moonthings. Happy/wedding./Harvey Jacobs.” The signature seems to match other online examples of Jacobs signature. Replaces an existing copy. Bought for $13.50.
Martin, George R. R., editor. Texas Hold-Em: A Wild Cards Novel. Tor, 2018. First edition hardback, a Fine copy in a Fine dust jacket. Bought for $8.99. I have the first twelve Wild Card Bantam PBOs (the first three signed by a significant number of contributors), the three Baen PBOs, the first six SFBC hardback reprints of the Bantam PBOs, the two iBooks hardback firsts, and a goodly number (but not all) of the Tor hardback firsts. So I need the Tor firsts of Busted Flush, Suicide Kings, High Stakes, Low Chicago, Knave Over Queens, Three Kings, Joker Moon, Full House, Pairing Up and Sleeper Straddle.
Tags:Books, Fantasy, George R. R. Martin, Half Price Books, Harvey Jacobs, Science Fiction, Wild Cards
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Monday, April 1st, 2024
My story “Salvation” had been translated and published in Estonia as “Pääsetee” in Reaktor 150, March 2024.
Since “Crucifixion Variations” was translated and published Lithuanian, now all I need is to have a story translated into Latvian for the Baltic States Trifecta.
The bibliography has been updated.
Tags:Estonia, Science Fiction
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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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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.
Tags:Books, Fantasy, Horror, Mark V. Ziesing, Science Fiction, small press publishers, Thomas M. Disch
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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. 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.
Tags:Books, Fantasy, John Crowley, Kickstarter, Science Fiction, signatures, small press publishers
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Wednesday, February 14th, 2024
Here’s another Heritage Auctions lot I placed lowball bid on and won. There were three books, one of which will be in the next Lame Excuse Books catalog. Both of these were on my Books Wanted List.
Kuttner, Henry, with C. L. Moore (as Lewis Padgett). Gnome Press, 1951. First edition hardback, a near Fine copy with previous owner’s name on FFE and slight bend at head, in a Near Fine-, price-clipped dust jacket with slight wear and shallow loss at heel, slight wear at head, and slight rubbing along folds. Currey, page 293. Chalker/Owings, page 198 (“One of the scarcest Gnomes”). Kemp, The Anthem Series, pages 200-201 (though he calls for gray boards lettered in “dark blue,” and the lettering here is clearly black; this calls for dark gray lettered in black, but honestly it looks more like a dark beige to me, so I’ve added a scan below). Locke, A Spectrum of Fantasy page 171 (under Padgett).
This scans lighter than it actually is, so I’ve adjusted the brightness down a smidge to closely match the color I’m seeing with my eye.
I paid less than $50 each for these with buyer’s premium.
Tags:Books, C. L. Moore, Fantasy, Fritz Leiber, Gnome Press, Henry Kuttner, Heritage Auctions, Science Fiction
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Thursday, February 8th, 2024
This is a tiny (5 1/2″ tall by 4″ wide) Ellison book I only recently became aware of.
Ellison, Harlan. bugf#ck: The Useless Wit and Wisdom of Harlan Ellison. (Note: That is how the title is spelled everywhere in the book except at the top of the copyright page, where it is spelled BUGFUCK.) Edgeworks Abbey/Spectrum Fantastic Arts LLC, 2011. First edition hardback (“10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1” numberline), a Fine copy in a Fine dust jacket. Small book of pithy quotations from Ellison. Bought of eBay from a Goodwill for $8.79 (and fortunately, it was a first in Fine/Fine condition, which wasn’t spelled out on the listing).
Tags:Books, Edgeworks Abbey, Fantasy, Harlan Ellison, Science Fiction
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