Here’s all the books I added to my library in 2025, some 204 of them. This list is dominated by a whole lot of Robert E. Howard, first from a large bulk purchase from a collector at the beginning of the year, and then someone selling off someone else’s collection of books on Facebook later.… Continue reading Library Additions for 2025
Tag: Tim Powers
Library Addition: Charnel House Signed, Limited Edition of Tim Powers’ The Mill of the Gods
Another Tim Powers limited edition from Charnel House: Powers, Tim. The Mills of the Gods. Charnel House, 2025. First edition hardback (according to Charnel House, both this and the Baen edition came out December 2, 2025), #54 of 150 signed, numbered copies, a Fine copy, sans dust jacket, as issued. Supernatural fantasy set in 1925… Continue reading Library Addition: Charnel House Signed, Limited Edition of Tim Powers’ The Mill of the Gods
Library Addition: Charnel House Limited of Tim Powers’ Dinner at Deviant’s Palace
The latest volume in Charnel House ongoing prestige limited edition of all Tim Powers’ novels. Powers, Tim. Dinner at Deviant’s Palace. Charnel House, 2025. First limited edition thus, #56 of 99 numbered copies, a Fine copy, sans dust jacket, as issued, with cardstock ad for limited edition art print of Powers’ own interpretation of Deviant’s… Continue reading Library Addition: Charnel House Limited of Tim Powers’ Dinner at Deviant’s Palace
Library Additions for 2024
2024 was a weird year for book buying. I was unemployed until October, but still ended up buying a lot of books, but more were on the inexpensive range of the scale. The Clarke, the Dick set, the lettered Dark Kin and the Charnel House Powers books were the only items I paid more than… Continue reading Library Additions for 2024
Library Addition: Signed First of The Other Side of Philip K. Dick
I have a fairly ridiculous amount of non-fiction books by and about Philip K. Dick (essays, bibliographies, critical studies, etc.); I think just shy of three linear feet. But this, which came out in 2016 bearing blurbs from Tim Powers and James P. Blaylock, escaped my attention until this signed copy popped up on eBay… Continue reading Library Addition: Signed First of The Other Side of Philip K. Dick
Library Addition: Tim Powers’ Empty Chamber
Another Charnel House signed/limited Tim Powers first: Powers, Tim. Empty Chamber. Charnel House, 2024. First edition hardback, #54 of 250 signed, numbered copies, a Fine copy in embossed boards, sans dust jacket, as issued. New novella, elaborately decorated with gold and black Tarot-cardesque illustrations. “Handbound in full Corvon® Rust: An acrylic-coated, latex-saturated paper that imitates… Continue reading Library Addition: Tim Powers’ Empty Chamber
Library Additions: Three Subterranean Firsts (McDevitt, Powers, Reamy)
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… Continue reading Library Additions: Three Subterranean Firsts (McDevitt, Powers, Reamy)
Library Addition: Charnel House edition of Tim Powers’ My Brother’s Keeper
Another beautiful Charnel house Tim Powers book: Powers, Tim. My Brother’s Keeper. Charnel House, 2023 (stated, actually 2024). First edition hardback, #54 of 200 signed, numbered copies, a Fine copy, sans dust jacket, as issued. The usual elaborate Charnel House production, with full-color illustrated endpapers. The Baen trade edition precedes. I will have copies of… Continue reading Library Addition: Charnel House edition of Tim Powers’ My Brother’s Keeper
Library Additions for 2023
Here are all the books I added to my library in 2023. Most (but not all) have been covered in previous posts. Adams, Douglas (edited by Kevin Jon Davies). 42: The Wildly Improbable Ideas of Douglas Adams. Unbound, 2023. First edition hardback (number line ending with 1), a Fine copy, sans dust jacket, as issued.… Continue reading Library Additions for 2023
Library Additions: Three Signed Tim Powers Firsts
Three more purchases from that private collector that I hadn’t cataloged and shelved yet because I had run out of bookcase space. But I recently finished staining and finishing two more book cases, so now I can finish cataloging that purchase. Powers, Tim. The Anubis Gates. Mark V. Ziesing, 1989. First edition thus, part of… Continue reading Library Additions: Three Signed Tim Powers Firsts