{"id":14345,"date":"2015-09-08T12:45:57","date_gmt":"2015-09-08T17:45:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/?p=14345"},"modified":"2026-09-16T13:31:03","modified_gmt":"2026-09-16T18:31:03","slug":"library-additions-4-books-3-non-fiction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/?p=14345","title":{"rendered":"Library Additions: 4 Books, 3 Non-Fiction"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here’s the final titles I bought from the Cold Tonnage 40% off sale, three of which are non-fiction and the fourth just an odd item:<\/p>\n

  • Bradbury, Ray (illustrated by Gary Gianni). The Nefertiti-Tut Express<\/b>. The RAS Press, 2012. First edition oversized oblong (9″ x 12″ long) chapbook edition, a Fine copy, new and unread. Oversized illustrated edition of a longish poem. Signed by Gianni. Bought for \u00a312.\n
  • Clarke, I. F. Voices Prophesying War<\/b>. Oxford University Press, 1990. First edition hardback (of this new expanded and updated edition), a Fine copy in a Fine dust jacket with slight wear on rear points. Non-fiction. The standard reference on future war fiction. Bought for \u00a310.80.\n
  • (Ellison, Harlan) Priest, Christopher. The Book on the Edge of Forever<\/b>. Fantagraphics Books, 1994. First edition trade paperback format (perfect-bound with the look and feel of a short graphic novel, which is Fantagraphics primary line), a Fine- copy. Non-fiction. An inquiry into the non-appearance of Harlan Ellison’s massive, long-delayed anthology The Last Dangerous Visions<\/b>, expanded from an earlier fanzine titled The Last Deadloss Visions<\/b>. Hugo Award nominee for best Non-Fiction. Bought for \u00a315. Not particularly a Priest fan (I had lunch with two<\/i> of his ex-wives at the 2014 London Worldcon), but when you’re right…\n

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  • (Heinlein, Robert A.) Olander, Joseph and Martin Harry Greenberg, editors. Robert A. Heinlein<\/b> (Writers of the 21st Century Series). Taplinger, 1978. First edition hardback, a Fine copy in a Fine dust jacket. Non-fiction. Bought for \u00a312.\n<\/li>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Here’s the final titles I bought from the Cold Tonnage 40% off sale, three of which are non-fiction and the fourth just an odd item: Bradbury, Ray (illustrated by Gary Gianni). The Nefertiti-Tut Express. The RAS Press, 2012. First edition oversized oblong (9″ x 12″ long) chapbook edition, a Fine copy, new and unread. Oversized […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":12,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,5],"tags":[1973,2000,1954,97,823,716,1064,1970],"class_list":["post-14345","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-science-fiction","tag-books","tag-christopher-priest","tag-cold-tonnage","tag-first-edition","tag-harlan-ellison","tag-ray-bradbury","tag-reference-works","tag-science-fiction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14345","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=14345"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14345\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26449,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14345\/revisions\/26449"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}