{"id":11940,"date":"2013-12-11T08:00:02","date_gmt":"2013-12-11T14:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/?p=11940"},"modified":"2019-11-24T02:22:28","modified_gmt":"2019-11-24T08:22:28","slug":"library-additions-earnest-bramahs-the-moon-of-much-gladness-in-dust-jacket","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/?p=11940","title":{"rendered":"Library Additions: Earnest Bramah&#8217;s The Moon of Much Gladness (in dust jacket)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you like Barry Hughart, you should really try reading Earnest Bramah&#8217;s Kai Lung series, which is exceptionally entertaining. Though most of the Kai Lung first editions were published slightly before my main collecting period, I do snatch up nice copies in dust jacket when I see them at an affordable price (though I doubt I&#8217;ll ever have a Bramah collection to rival <a href=\"http:\/\/bookpics.com\/mycollectionv.html\">Mike Berro&#8217;s<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>Bramah, Earnest. <b>The Moon of Much Gladness<\/b>. Cassell &#038; Company, 1932. First edition hardback (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ernestbramah.com\/books.htm\">Berro A17<\/a>), a Fine- copy with slight bends at head and heel in a VG+ dust jacket with a 1\/8&#8243; chip at rear head join, slight cracking at top edge of front cover, and dust soiling to rear, otherwise a fairly bright and attractive copy of a book seldom offered in dust jacket. Bought for $300 off the Internet from a major SF book dealer. <\/p>\n<p>(Click to embiggen, but note that the what appear to be tiny spots of white rubbing to the black dj are in fact scanner artifacts.)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Moon-Much-Gladness.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Moon-Much-Gladness-192x300.jpeg\" alt=\"Moon Much Gladness\" width=\"192\" height=\"300\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-11946\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Moon-Much-Gladness-192x300.jpeg 192w, https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Moon-Much-Gladness-658x1024.jpeg 658w, https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Moon-Much-Gladness.jpeg 1510w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 192px) 100vw, 192px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you like Barry Hughart, you should really try reading Earnest Bramah&#8217;s Kai Lung series, which is exceptionally entertaining. Though most of the Kai Lung first editions were published slightly before my main collecting period, I do snatch up nice copies in dust jacket when I see them at an affordable price (though I doubt [&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":[8,137,49],"tags":[1973,1701,1983,97],"class_list":["post-11940","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-fantasy","category-pics","tag-books","tag-ernest-bramah","tag-fantasy","tag-first-edition"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11940","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=11940"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11940\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18634,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11940\/revisions\/18634"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}