{"id":13767,"date":"2015-05-11T09:16:05","date_gmt":"2015-05-11T14:16:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/?p=13767"},"modified":"2015-05-11T09:16:05","modified_gmt":"2015-05-11T14:16:05","slug":"library-addition-clifford-simaks-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/?p=13767","title":{"rendered":"Library Addition: Clifford Simak&#8217;s City"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I picked up one of the key Gnome Press titles at a Heritage auction:<\/p>\n<p>Simak, Clifford. <b>City<\/b>. Gnome Press, 1952. First edition hardback, a Near Fine- copy with slight spine lean and previous owner&#8217;s name and date on front free endpaper) in a Near Fine+ dust jacket with a few pinhead sized spots of discoloration on dust jacket flaps and along top flap edges, and extremely slight dust-staining to white rear panel; an exceptionally nice example of the dust jacket. One of Simak&#8217;s key works, and one of the more desirable Gnome Press titles. Chalker &#038; Owings (1991), page 199. Currey (1979), page 446. Kemp, <b>The Anthem Series<\/b>, page 208. Won for $200 from Heritage Auctions. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/City.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/City-689x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"City\" width=\"450\" height=\"668\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-13777\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/City-689x1024.jpeg 689w, https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/City.jpeg 1665w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I picked up one of the key Gnome Press titles at a Heritage auction: Simak, Clifford. City. Gnome Press, 1952. First edition hardback, a Near Fine- copy with slight spine lean and previous owner&#8217;s name and date on front free endpaper) in a Near Fine+ dust jacket with a few pinhead sized spots of discoloration [&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":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,5],"tags":[1973,1924,97,216,1970],"class_list":["post-13767","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-science-fiction","tag-books","tag-clifford-simak","tag-first-edition","tag-gnome-press","tag-science-fiction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13767","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=13767"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13767\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13779,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13767\/revisions\/13779"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}