{"id":13287,"date":"2014-12-15T08:00:04","date_gmt":"2014-12-15T14:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/?p=13287"},"modified":"2014-12-14T20:37:38","modified_gmt":"2014-12-15T02:37:38","slug":"library-additions-random-interesting-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/?p=13287","title":{"rendered":"Library Additions: Random Interesting Books"},"content":{"rendered":"

A few of these are from a mostly-disappointing book shopping jaunt around Houston the day after Thanksgiving, plus two from eBay.<\/p>\n

  • Banks, Iain. The Steep Approach to Garbadale<\/b>. Little\/Brown, 2007. First edition hardback, a limited edition of 1000 numbered copies signed by Banks distributed through the Waterstone’s bookstore chain, a Fine copy in a Fine slipcase, sans dust jacket as issued. Supplements a trade copy.\n

    \"P1000915\"<\/a><\/p>\n

  • Bradbury, Ray. A Graveyard for Lunatics<\/b>. Knopf, 1990. First edition hardback, a Fine copy in a Fine dust jacket. Signed by Bradbury. Bought for $19.99 off eBay.\n

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

  • Brooks, Max. World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War<\/b>. Crown, 2006. First edition hardback, a Fine copy in a Fine- dust jacket. Bought for $12 at Quarter-Price Books in Houston, which is conveniently close to Joel’s Classical Shop<\/a>.\n
  • Ford, John M. Growing Up Weightless<\/b>. Easton Press, 1993. First hardback edition, one of an undetermined number of signed subscriber copies, a Fine copy, sans dust jacket, as issued, in decorated leather boards. Bought from Half Price Books for $35.\n

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

  • Niffenegger, Audrey. The Time Traveler’s Wife<\/b>. MacAdam\/Cage, 2003. First edition hardback, a Fine copy in a Fine dust jacket. Bought for $20 at Half Price Books. Replaces a less perfect copy.\n

    \"Time<\/a>\n<\/li>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    A few of these are from a mostly-disappointing book shopping jaunt around Houston the day after Thanksgiving, plus two from eBay. Banks, Iain. The Steep Approach to Garbadale. Little\/Brown, 2007. First edition hardback, a limited edition of 1000 numbered copies signed by Banks distributed through the Waterstone’s bookstore chain, a Fine copy in a Fine… Continue reading Library Additions: Random Interesting Books<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":8,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,5],"tags":[1973,911,1874,716,1970],"class_list":["post-13287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-science-fiction","tag-books","tag-iain-m-banks","tag-max-brooks","tag-ray-bradbury","tag-science-fiction","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13287","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=13287"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13287\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13326,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13287\/revisions\/13326"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}