{"id":11324,"date":"2013-08-12T08:00:36","date_gmt":"2013-08-12T13:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/?p=11324"},"modified":"2026-09-15T20:49:48","modified_gmt":"2026-09-16T01:49:48","slug":"library-additions-various-interesting-books-bought-on-sale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/?p=11324","title":{"rendered":"Library Additions: Various Interesting Books Bought on Sale"},"content":{"rendered":"

Unlike the Zelazny<\/a> or Bradbury<\/a> book acquisition posts, the only common theme among these books is who I bought them from and why. The who, in this case, is Cold Tonnage Books<\/a> in the UK. The why is that they had a 40% off sale if you bought more than \u00a3500 worth of books. I saw this as a chance to pick up several important first editions cheaper than I would have been able to otherwise. So this is a mixture of first rate titles in areas I collect, valuable firsts too cheap to pass up, signed, pristine copies of some relatively cheap books, and a few odds and ends. <\/p>\n

  • Aldiss, Brian. Moreau’s Other island<\/b>. Jonathan Cape, 1980. First edition hardback, a Fine copy in a Fine dust jacket, signed by Aldiss on the front free endpaper.\n
  • Aldiss, Brian. This World and Nearer Ones: Essays Exploring the Familiar<\/b>. Weidenfield and Nicolson, 1979. First edition hardback, a Fine copy in a Fine dust jacket.\n
  • (Aldiss, Brian) Aldiss, Margaret. Item Eighty-Three: Brian W. Aldiss: A Bibliography: 1954\u20141972<\/b>. SF Horizons, (1973). Chapbook, Fine. Non-fiction.\n
  • Asimov, Isaac. Nine Tomorrows<\/b>. Doubleday, 1959. First edition hardback, a Fine copy in a Near Fine dust jacket with moderate wear at heel and slight wear along folds. A very nice copy of this important Asimov short story collection. Currey, page 19. Replaces an Ex-Lib copy in my library.\n

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  • Brackett, Leigh. The Sword of Rhiannon<\/b>. Boardman, 1955. First hardback edition (“First published in Great Britain, 1955″, as per Currey), a Fine- copy with slight bend at head and heel and foxing to interior gutters, in a Very Good dust jacket with 1\/4” of wear rubbing\/chipping (dust jacket is present, but image has been worn away) at head, a similar, smaller amount of wear at heel, a shallow chip with associated wear at top rear, and crease along front cover spine join running the entire length of the jacket, and wear along extremities; despite all that, the rest of the jacket is quite bright and attractive. Currey, page 53. Cawthorn & Moorocock, Fantasy: The Hundred Best Books<\/b> 75. A fairly uncommon book these days.\n

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  • Ellison, Harlan. All the Lies That Are My Life<\/b>. Underwood\/Miller, 1980. First edition hardback, one of 400 unsigned trade hardcover copies, a Fine copy in a Fine dust jacket. Chalker\/Owings, page 432.\n
  • Ellison, Harlan. Harlan Ellison is Watching<\/b>. Underwood\/Miller, 1989. First edition hardback, #46 of 600 signed, numbered copies, a Fine copy in a Fine dust jacket and slipcase. Chalker\/Owings, page 440.\n
  • Ellison, Harlan. Stalking the Nightmare<\/b>. Phantasia Press, 1982. First edition hardback, #240 of 700 signed hardback copies, a Fine copy in a Fine dust jacket and slipcase. Supplements a copy of the trade edition. Chalker\/Owings, page 340.\n
  • (Leiber, Fritz) Morgan, Chris. Fritz Leiber: a bibliography, 1934\u20141979<\/b>. Morgenstern, 1979. Chapbook original, one of 1000 copies, a Near Fine+ copy with spots of age darkening to cover.\n
  • Moorcock, Michael. Sailor on the Seas of Fate<\/b>. Quartet Books, 1976. First edition hardback, a Near Fine copy with a chip out of the corner of the front free endpaper, in a Fine dust jacket. Currey, page 372.\n
  • Roberts, Adam (as A. R. R. R. Roberts). The Soddit, or Let’s Cash In Again<\/b>. Gollancz, 2003. First edition hardback, a Fine copy in a Fine dust jacket. Signed by Roberts. Parody of The Hobbit<\/b>.\n
  • (Simak, Clifford D.) Becker, Muriel R. Clifford D. Simak: a primary and secondary bibliography<\/b>. G. K. Hall, 1980. First edition hardback, a Fine copy, sans dust jacket, as issued. Non-fiction. I do wish the books were separated from the short fiction listings…\n
  • Smith, Edward E., Ph.D. Skylark Three<\/b>. Fantasy Press, 1948. First edition hardback, one of 500 subscriber copies with a signature page inscribed by Smith bound in: “To Hugh F. Henry\u2014\/Three in a row \u2014 Hot dog!\/And thanks a million for\/the compliment.\/Edward E. Smith, Ph.D.” (Doc Smith had marvelously clear handwriting), a Fine- copy with a tiny bit of crimping at head and heel and faint foxing to gutters, in a Near Fine dust jacket with slight rubbing to top 1\/2″ of front, slight edgewear at head, and slight dust soiling to rear cover. E. E. “Doc” Smith is someone I only pick up as a target of opportunity, but I couldn’t pass up a chance to pick up a very attractive example of one of the Fantasy Press subscriber copies for one of their most popular writers for approximately $150 after sale discount.\n

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  • Turner, Gary, and Marty Halpern. The Silver Griffith<\/b>. Golden Gryphon, 2003. First edition hardback, #34 of 100 numbered copies signed by all the contributor, a Fine copy in a Fine dust jacket, in slipcase.\n
  • Vance, Jack (as John Holbrook Vance). The Deadly Isles<\/b>. Bobbs-Merrill, 1969. First edition hardback, a Fine- copy with a tiny bit of crimping at head and heel in a Fine- dust jacket with a few bare traces of dust soiling and a tiny bit of rubbing at extremities. Overall a beautiful copy of this Vance mystery. Currey, p. 497. Hewett, A33.\n

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    Also a signed first of Iain Banks A Song of Stone<\/b> that came in with a couple of dust jacket flaws; I’ll end up marrying the signed book to my existing pristine dust jacket…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Unlike the Zelazny or Bradbury book acquisition posts, the only common theme among these books is who I bought them from and why. The who, in this case, is Cold Tonnage Books in the UK. The why is that they had a 40% off sale if you bought more than \u00a3500 worth of books. I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":4,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,49,5],"tags":[1973,1087,1954,1656,1983,823,233,87,709,47,1970],"class_list":["post-11324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-pics","category-science-fiction","tag-books","tag-brian-aldiss","tag-cold-tonnage","tag-e-e-doc-smith","tag-fantasy","tag-harlan-ellison","tag-isaac-asimov","tag-jack-vance","tag-leigh-brackett","tag-michael-moorcock","tag-science-fiction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11324","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=11324"}],"version-history":[{"count":26,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11324\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13525,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11324\/revisions\/13525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}