{"id":12354,"date":"2014-03-22T11:04:00","date_gmt":"2014-03-22T16:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/?p=12354"},"modified":"2014-06-22T16:11:25","modified_gmt":"2014-06-22T21:11:25","slug":"books-signed-by-ray-bradbury-robert-bloch-and-fritz-leiber","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/?p=12354","title":{"rendered":"Books Signed by Ray Bradbury, Robert Bloch and Fritz Leiber"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Three more books from that big 70% off purchase:<\/p>\n<li>(Bradbury, Ray) Borst, Ronald V. <b>Graven Images<\/b>. Grove Press, 1992. First edition hardback, a Fine copy in a Fine dust jacket. Oversized art book reprinting science fiction, fantasy and horror movie posters, production art, etc., from Borst&#8217;s own extensive collection. Signed by Ray Bradbury, who provided the introduction to the chapter on the 1930s. Amount paid: $26.24. This is actually not hard to find signed by Bradbury, but it usually goes for about twice that.\n<li>Bloch, Robert. <b>American Gothic<\/b>. Simon and Schuster, 1974. First edition hardback, a Near Fine copy with a couple of large, faint light brownish stains on front free endpaper and one much smaller one on the rear free endpaper, in a Fine dust jacket. Inscribed by Bloch, who actually mentions the stain: &#8220;Clean up this page\/immediately! &#8212;&#8212;->\/ Robert Bloch&#8221; (with the arrow pointing toward one of the stains). Replaces an unsigned ex-library copy in my collection. Price paid: $30.00.\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Bloch-Inscription.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Bloch-Inscription-300x159.jpeg\" alt=\"Bloch Inscription\" width=\"300\" height=\"159\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-12360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Bloch-Inscription-300x159.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Bloch-Inscription-1024x545.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Bloch-Inscription.jpeg 1607w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a> <\/p>\n<li>Leiber, Fritz. <b>Our Lady of Darkness<\/b>. Berkley Putnam, 1977. First edition hardback (no statement of printing on copyright page, as per Currey), a Near Fine copy with slight dust staining and wear to bottom boards and small white abrasion to bottom rear boards, in a Near Fine, price-clipped dust jacket. Inscribed by Leiber in purple ink: &#8220;For my Dear Friend\/Doris Cornejo with\/my very best\/wishes. Enjoy!\/Fritz Leiber\/March 4, 1977&#8221;. At the bottom of the name Grace Cornejo has been written in red ink, possibly by a different hand. Supplements an unsigned copy (also, alas, with an imperfect dust jacket) in my library. Price paid: $33.74.\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Leiber-Inscription.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Leiber-Inscription-255x300.jpeg\" alt=\"Leiber Inscription\" width=\"255\" height=\"300\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-12363\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Leiber-Inscription-255x300.jpeg 255w, https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Leiber-Inscription-871x1024.jpeg 871w, https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Leiber-Inscription.jpeg 1607w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 255px) 100vw, 255px\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three more books from that big 70% off purchase: (Bradbury, Ray) Borst, Ronald V. Graven Images. Grove Press, 1992. First edition hardback, a Fine copy in a Fine dust jacket. Oversized art book reprinting science fiction, fantasy and horror movie posters, production art, etc., from Borst&#8217;s own extensive collection. Signed by Ray Bradbury, who provided [&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":3,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,137,56,49,5],"tags":[1973,1983,164,1979,1978,716,165,1970,1491],"class_list":["post-12354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-fantasy","category-horror","category-pics","category-science-fiction","tag-books","tag-fantasy","tag-fritz-leiber","tag-horror","tag-pics","tag-ray-bradbury","tag-robert-bloch","tag-science-fiction","tag-signatures"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12354","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=12354"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12354\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12712,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12354\/revisions\/12712"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}