{"id":12060,"date":"2013-12-30T08:00:11","date_gmt":"2013-12-30T14:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/?p=12060"},"modified":"2013-12-29T18:41:53","modified_gmt":"2013-12-30T00:41:53","slug":"books-bought-in-denton-december-20-2013-k-through-z","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/?p=12060","title":{"rendered":"Books Bought in Denton December 20, 2013: K Through Z"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here’s the third and final list of books I bought at Recycled Books in Denton for my own library. (Here’s Part One<\/a> and Part Two<\/a>). A few more will show up in the next Lame Excuse Books catalog. Again, I didn’t pay more than $40 for anything here, and most were less. <\/p>\n

  • (Koontz, Dean R.) Kotker, Joan G. Dean Koontz: A Critical Companion<\/b>. Greenwood Press, 1996 (stated; probably more recent). Reprint hardback, Fine, sans dust jacket, as issued. Non-fiction.\n
  • Silverberg, Robert. Capricorn Games<\/b>. Random House, 1976. Signed by Silverberg. Currey (1979), page 436.\n
  • Smith, George O. The Brain Machine<\/b>. Garland Press, 1975. First hardback edition, Fine, sans dust jacket, as issued. Originally a paperback original under the title The Fourth “R”<\/b>. Currey (1979), page 458. Garland, like Gregg Press, usually did interesting hardback reprints.\n
  • Smith, George O. Hellflower<\/b>. Abelard Press, 1953. First hardback edition, a Fine copy in a Near Fine+ dust jacket with slight spine fade to red portions and tiny traces of wear, otherwise a complete, bright and attractive dust jacket. Currey (1979), page 458.\n

    \"Hellflower\"<\/a><\/p>\n

  • Swainston, Steph. The Modern World<\/b>. Inscribed by the author: “S. Swainston\/12.05.07\/’All things from eternity are of like forms\/And come round in a circle.’ \u2014 Marcus Aurelius”. With photograph of the author laid in. Bought for $24. I should really get around to reading The Year of Our War<\/b> some day…\n
  • Swanwick, Michael. Moon Dogs<\/b>. NESFA Press, 2000. First edition hardback, one of 175 signed slipcased copies, a Fine copy in a Fine dust jacket. Supplements an inscribed trade copy.\n
  • Taine, John. The Time Stream<\/b>. Buffalo Book Company, 1946. First edition hardback, a Near Fine copy with foxing to inside covers and a few faint pinpoint spots on boards, in a VG- dust jacket with uneven loss to top edge, mostly 1\/16″ but occasionally as much as 1\/4″. According to Chalker\/Owings (1991), page 78, only 500 copies were ever bound, and half of those were lost in a rainstorm. Currey (1979), page 29. Bleiler Checklist<\/b>, 1978, page 191. Locke, Spectrum of Fantasy One<\/b>, page 211. 333<\/b>, page 63. An important early SF specialty book.\n

    \"Taine<\/a><\/p>\n

  • Vinge, Joan D. World’s End<\/b>. Bluejay Books, 1984. First edition hardback, #127 of 750 signed numbered copies in slipcase, a Fine copy in a Fine dust jacket. This copy has been additionally inscribed by Vinge: “”To Marcia Adams\/-with all my best wishes-!\/Joan D. Vinge\/2005.” There was a PBS cooking show host and cook book author by that name who died in 2011; not sure if that’s who it’s inscribed to or not. I do wonder how many of these slipcased hardcovers Bluejay Books did. I have their slipcased edition of K. W. Jeter’s Dr. Adder<\/b>, and I know they did a few others, but there does not appear to be a list online. I’ll write Jim Frenkel and ask…\n
  • Wells, H. G. (edited by Robert Philmus and David y. Hughes). Early Writings in Science and Science Fiction by H. G. Wells<\/b>. University of California Press, 1975. Presumed first edition hardback (no additional printings listed), a Fine- copy with slight crimping at head and heel and trace of foxing to inside front covers, in a VG- dust jacket with a 1\/2″ square chip missing from bottom front cover and a 3\/8″ chunk tapering to a point over 3″ missing at top rear. Not in Currey. Reginald, 1975-1991<\/b>, 36697. Dictionary of Literary Biography: Volume 178: British Fantasy and Science-Fiction Writers Before World War I<\/b>, page 242. Not a great dust jacket, but it was only $8, and copies online are somewhat pricey…\n<\/li>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Here’s the third and final list of books I bought at Recycled Books in Denton for my own library. (Here’s Part One and Part Two). A few more will show up in the next Lame Excuse Books catalog. Again, I didn’t pay more than $40 for anything here, and most were less. (Koontz, Dean R.) […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":1,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,137,56,49,5],"tags":[1973,1611,1983,97,1717,510,1979,1163,1718,1153,1978,1149,1970,882,1720],"class_list":["post-12060","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-fantasy","category-horror","category-pics","category-science-fiction","tag-books","tag-dean-r-koontz","tag-fantasy","tag-first-edition","tag-george-o-smith","tag-h-g-wells","tag-horror","tag-joan-d-vinge","tag-john-taine","tag-michael-swanwick","tag-pics","tag-robert-silverberg","tag-science-fiction","tag-signed","tag-steph-swainston"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12060","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=12060"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12060\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12082,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12060\/revisions\/12082"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}