{"id":13595,"date":"2015-03-04T08:00:53","date_gmt":"2015-03-04T14:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/?p=13595"},"modified":"2024-04-01T17:57:25","modified_gmt":"2024-04-01T22:57:25","slug":"library-addition-pb-of-neal-barrett-jr-s-through-darkest-america-inscribed-to-lewis-shiner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/?p=13595","title":{"rendered":"Library Addition: PB of Neal Barrett, Jr.&#8217;s Through Darkest America Inscribed to Lewis Shiner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I found this shopping at Half Price Books, bought it, then confirmed my suspicion:<\/p>\n<p>Barrett, Neal. <b>Through Darkest America<\/b>. Worldwide, 1988. First paperback edition, a Fine- copy with tiny bump to bottom front corner and slight age-darkening to paper, otherwise apparently unread. Inscribed by Barrett, Jr. to fellow Texas science fiction writer Lewis Shiner: &#8220;11\/29\/88\/\/Unca Lew\u2014\/Having you here for\/a while has made my\/day, as ever\u2014\/(Signature)&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Shiner-Darkest.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Shiner-Darkest-180x300.jpeg\" alt=\"Shiner Darkest\" width=\"180\" height=\"300\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-13605\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Shiner-Darkest-180x300.jpeg 180w, https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Shiner-Darkest-617x1024.jpeg 617w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 180px) 100vw, 180px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Lew confirmed that it was indeed inscribed to him, noting he must have sold it because he was moving again and already had the hardback&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I found this shopping at Half Price Books, bought it, then confirmed my suspicion: Barrett, Neal. Through Darkest America. Worldwide, 1988. First paperback edition, a Fine- copy with tiny bump to bottom front corner and slight age-darkening to paper, otherwise apparently unread. Inscribed by Barrett, Jr. to fellow Texas science fiction writer Lewis Shiner: &#8220;11\/29\/88\/\/Unca [&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":[8,5],"tags":[1901,1973,167,404,1970],"class_list":["post-13595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-science-fiction","tag-associational-copy","tag-books","tag-lewis-shiner","tag-neal-barrett-jr","tag-science-fiction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13595","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=13595"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13595\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23252,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13595\/revisions\/23252"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}