{"id":13266,"date":"2014-12-08T12:45:14","date_gmt":"2014-12-08T18:45:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/?p=13266"},"modified":"2014-12-08T12:55:55","modified_gmt":"2014-12-08T18:55:55","slug":"library-additions-three-gregg-press-hardbacks-of-piers-anthonys-bio-of-a-space-tyrant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/?p=13266","title":{"rendered":"Library Additions: Three Gregg Press Hardbacks of Piers Anthony’s Bio of a Space Tyrant"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve never been a big Piers Anthony fan, so it might surprise some that I’m picking these up. But: A.) I have a long-term goal of picking up all the Gregg Press hardbacks, B.) I am given to understand that these (along with Macroscope<\/b> and On A Pale Horse<\/b>) are among his best work, and C.) They were incredibly<\/i> cheap, $6 (plus bidder fee and shipping) for all three (plus a random Xanth novel) from a Heritage Auction.<\/p>\n

  • Anthony, Piers. Bio of A Space Tyrant 1: Refuge<\/b>. Gregg Press, 1985. First hardcover edition, a Fine copy in a Fine dust.\n

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

  • Anthony, Piers. Bio of A Space Tyrant 2: Mercenary<\/b>. Gregg Press, 1985. First hardcover edition, a Fine copy in a Fine dust jacket.\n

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

  • Anthony, Piers. Bio of A Space Tyrant 3: Politician<\/b>. Gregg Press, 1985. First hardcover edition, a Fine copy in a Fine- dust jacket with edgewear at head.\n

    \"Anthony<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n

    See Hartwell, David G. “The GREGG PRESS Science Fiction Series 1975-1985 Complete, a Preliminary Annotated Checklist.”<\/p>\n

    These were the only volumes of the series done by Gregg Press. Volumes 4-6 were evidently done in hardcover by something called “Xlibris Corporation,” which I would guess is a Print-On-Demand publisher and lord<\/I>, did they put some stupidly hideous<\/a> covers on them…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    I’ve never been a big Piers Anthony fan, so it might surprise some that I’m picking these up. But: A.) I have a long-term goal of picking up all the Gregg Press hardbacks, B.) I am given to understand that these (along with Macroscope and On A Pale Horse) are among his best work, and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":17,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,5],"tags":[1973,97,898,1873],"class_list":["post-13266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-science-fiction","tag-books","tag-first-edition","tag-gregg-press","tag-piers-anthony"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13266","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=13266"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13266\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13306,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13266\/revisions\/13306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}