{"id":10717,"date":"2013-05-23T12:46:54","date_gmt":"2013-05-23T17:46:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/?p=10717"},"modified":"2013-05-23T13:05:59","modified_gmt":"2013-05-23T18:05:59","slug":"avram-davidson-chapbooks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/?p=10717","title":{"rendered":"Avram Davidson Chapbooks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Since <b>The Wailing of the Gaulish Dead<\/b> just arrived in the mail, I thought I would do a post on all four of the Avram Davidson chapbooks put out by The Nutmeg Point District Mail\/Avram Davidson Society:<\/p>\n<li>Davidson, Avram. <b>The Beasts of the Elysian Fields by Conrad Amber<\/b>. The Nutmeg Point District Mail, 2001. First edition chapbook, Fine. Though there were 70 numbered copies, this one is labeled &#8220;review copy.&#8221; (There were also evidently 10 presentation hardbacks, which I&#8217;ve not seen.)\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Beasts-Elysian-Fields.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Beasts-Elysian-Fields-193x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Beasts Elysian Fields\" width=\"193\" height=\"300\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-10731\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Beasts-Elysian-Fields-193x300.jpg 193w, https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Beasts-Elysian-Fields-660x1024.jpg 660w, https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Beasts-Elysian-Fields.jpg 1166w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 193px) 100vw, 193px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<li>Davidson, Avram. <b>El Vilvoy de las Islas<\/b>. #7 of 25 numbered copies hand bound in quarter green linen with paper-covered boards, a Fine copy, with errata slip bound in and this copy signed by Don Webb at his introduction. Bought for $35 when they were offered to subscribers of <i>The New York Review of Science Fiction<\/i> (unless I&#8217;m confusing it with Michael Swanwick&#8217;s <b>Puck Aleshire&#8217;s Abecedary<\/b>, which was also bound by <a href=\"http:\/\/endlessbookshelf.net\/\">Henry Wessells<\/a> and offered through <i>NYRSF<\/i>).\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/El-Vilvoy.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/El-Vilvoy-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"El Vilvoy\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-10732\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/El-Vilvoy-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/El-Vilvoy-685x1024.jpg 685w, https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/El-Vilvoy.jpg 1246w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<li>Davidson, Avram. <b>The Last Wizard<\/b>. The Avram Davidson Society, 1999. First edition chapbook original, #125 of 125 numbered copies, a Fine copy. (There was also a second printing.)\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Last-Wizard.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Last-Wizard-190x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Last Wizard\" width=\"190\" height=\"300\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-10733\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Last-Wizard-190x300.jpg 190w, https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Last-Wizard-650x1024.jpg 650w, https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Last-Wizard.jpg 1086w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 190px) 100vw, 190px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<li>Davidson, Avram. <b>The Wailing of the Gaulish Dead<\/b> The Nutmeg Point District Mail, 2013. Perfect-bound chapbook first edition, one of 200 copies in heavy cardstock with self-wrapper flaps and errata sheet pasted inside, a Fine copy. More Adventures in Unhistory. I&#8217;ll have some to sell in the next Lame Excuse Books catalog.\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Wailing-Gaulish-Dead.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Wailing-Gaulish-Dead-205x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Wailing Gaulish Dead\" width=\"205\" height=\"300\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-10726\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Wailing-Gaulish-Dead-205x300.jpg 205w, https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Wailing-Gaulish-Dead-702x1024.jpg 702w, https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Wailing-Gaulish-Dead.jpg 1241w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 205px) 100vw, 205px\" \/><\/a>\n<\/li>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since The Wailing of the Gaulish Dead just arrived in the mail, I thought I would do a post on all four of the Avram Davidson chapbooks put out by The Nutmeg Point District Mail\/Avram Davidson Society: Davidson, Avram. The Beasts of the Elysian Fields by Conrad Amber. The Nutmeg Point District Mail, 2001. First [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":7,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,137,5],"tags":[1617,1973,1143,401,1983,48,1970],"class_list":["post-10717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-fantasy","category-science-fiction","tag-avram-davidson","tag-books","tag-chapbooks","tag-don-webb","tag-fantasy","tag-first-editions","tag-science-fiction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10717","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10717"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10717\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10742,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10717\/revisions\/10742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}