{"id":11976,"date":"2013-12-19T08:00:11","date_gmt":"2013-12-19T14:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/?p=11976"},"modified":"2013-12-18T22:32:57","modified_gmt":"2013-12-19T04:32:57","slug":"library-additions-two-manly-wade-wellman-first-editions-one-signed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/?p=11976","title":{"rendered":"Library Additions: Two Manly Wade Wellman First Editions (One Signed)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m closing in on a complete Manly Wade Wellman first edition collection (closer to completing that than my complete Heinlein collection, but farther than my complete Lafferty, Lansdale or Zelazny collections). I picked up two firsts, one off eBay, another off a major science fiction book dealer. <\/p>\n<li>Wellman, Manly Wade. <b>The Ghost Battalion<\/b>. Ives Washburn, 1958. First edition hardback, most likely a repaired Ex-Library copy, Very Good with tape ghosts on boards, front free endpaper excised and another attached in it&#8217;s place, slight wear at heel, dust soiling at head, and slight crimping at head and heel, in a Near Fine dust jacket with edgewear and about 1\/16&#8243; inch of color loss at heel, and possible spine fading (hard to tell, since it&#8217;s a different color than the front and back covers). Second book in the Iron Scouts Civil War YA trilogy. Bought for $18 off eBay.\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Ghost-Batallion.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Ghost-Batallion-202x300.jpeg\" alt=\"Ghost Batallion\" width=\"202\" height=\"300\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-11988\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Ghost-Batallion-202x300.jpeg 202w, https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Ghost-Batallion-692x1024.jpeg 692w, https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Ghost-Batallion.jpeg 1666w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 202px) 100vw, 202px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<li>Wellman, Manly Wade. <b>What Dreams May Come<\/b>. Doubleday, 1983. First Edition hardback, a Fine copy in a Fine dust jacket, with signature plate signed by Wellman attached to front free endpaper. Features supernatural detective John Thundstone. Replaces an Ex-Library copy in my collection. Bought for $20 from a major SF book dealer.\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Wellman-What-Dreams.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Wellman-What-Dreams-200x300.jpeg\" alt=\"Wellman What Dreams\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-11991\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Wellman-What-Dreams-200x300.jpeg 200w, https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Wellman-What-Dreams-683x1024.jpeg 683w, https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Wellman-What-Dreams.jpeg 1694w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a>\n<\/li>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m closing in on a complete Manly Wade Wellman first edition collection (closer to completing that than my complete Heinlein collection, but farther than my complete Lafferty, Lansdale or Zelazny collections). I picked up two firsts, one off eBay, another off a major science fiction book dealer. Wellman, Manly Wade. The Ghost Battalion. Ives Washburn, [&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":[8,137,56],"tags":[1973,1983,97,1979,88],"class_list":["post-11976","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-fantasy","category-horror","tag-books","tag-fantasy","tag-first-edition","tag-horror","tag-manly-wade-wellman"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11976","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=11976"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11976\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11998,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11976\/revisions\/11998"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}