{"id":15817,"date":"2016-10-31T08:00:43","date_gmt":"2016-10-31T13:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/?p=15817"},"modified":"2016-10-31T15:22:51","modified_gmt":"2016-10-31T20:22:51","slug":"library-addition-michael-moorcocks-caribbean-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/?p=15817","title":{"rendered":"Library Addition: Michael Moorcock&#8217;s Caribbean Crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a fairly rare Moorcock item: His first published novel, if you can call it that.<\/p>\n<p>Moorcock, Michael, with James Cawthorn, as Desmond Reid. <b>Caribbean Crisis<\/b>. Sexton Blake Library 501\/Fleetway Publications, 1962. First edition (&#8220;First Printing&#8221; stated) trade paperback original (digest format), a Very Good- copy with small stains to front and rear cover (some from bleed-through from rusting staple), general wear and wrinkling along spine edge, small line of thin blue handwriting at top of rear cover, and slight page darkening. 62 double-column pages, plus a two page &#8220;mailbag&#8221; at rear. Not sure if this counts as a book serial or a magazine, but it features an English detective who first made his debut in 1893! Currey, page 368. <b>Tanelorn Archives<\/b>, page 12. An <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mark-hodder.com\/Blakiana\/year-1962\/\">online Sexton Blake bibliography<\/a> says that W. Howard Baker also did some revisions on this. Bought online for $6.65 plus $12.96 in shipping from a UK dealer.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Caribbean-Crisis.jpeg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-15831\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Caribbean-Crisis-229x300.jpeg\" alt=\"caribbean-crisis\" width=\"229\" height=\"300\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-15831\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Caribbean-Crisis-229x300.jpeg 229w, https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Caribbean-Crisis-768x1006.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Caribbean-Crisis-781x1024.jpeg 781w, https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Caribbean-Crisis.jpeg 1598w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 229px) 100vw, 229px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a fairly rare Moorcock item: His first published novel, if you can call it that. Moorcock, Michael, with James Cawthorn, as Desmond Reid. Caribbean Crisis. Sexton Blake Library 501\/Fleetway Publications, 1962. First edition (&#8220;First Printing&#8221; stated) trade paperback original (digest format), a Very Good- copy with small stains to front and rear cover (some&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/?p=15817\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Library Addition: Michael Moorcock&#8217;s Caribbean Crisis<\/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":14,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[1973,47],"class_list":["post-15817","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","tag-books","tag-michael-moorcock","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15817","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=15817"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15817\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15843,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15817\/revisions\/15843"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}