{"id":15857,"date":"2016-11-07T08:00:09","date_gmt":"2016-11-07T14:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/?p=15857"},"modified":"2016-11-06T23:19:11","modified_gmt":"2016-11-07T05:19:11","slug":"library-addition-signed-asimov-chapbook-little-brothers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/?p=15857","title":{"rendered":"Library Addition: Signed Asimov Chapbook Little Brothers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s another chapbook I had been looking for a long time that, like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/?p=15817\">Moorcock&#8217;s <b>Caribbean Crisis<\/b><\/a>, popped up on an ABE Books want search at a bargain price:<\/p>\n<p>Asimov, Isaac. <b>Little Brothers<\/b>. The Pretentious Press, 1988. First edition chapbook original, one of 126 copies signed by Asimov (the only edition), a Fine copy, with two photos (of Isaac and Stanley Asimov) tipped into front, as issued. Reprints Asimov&#8217;s first published work, an essay about how much he hated his little brother, from the <i>Boys High Recorder<\/i> in 1934. Bought for $35 plus shipping from a well-known literary dealer. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Little-Brothers.jpeg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-15864\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Little-Brothers-192x300.jpeg\" alt=\"little-brothers\" width=\"192\" height=\"300\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-15864\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Little-Brothers-192x300.jpeg 192w, https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Little-Brothers-768x1202.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Little-Brothers-654x1024.jpeg 654w, https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Little-Brothers.jpeg 1636w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 192px) 100vw, 192px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Pretentious Press chapbooks were done by bookseller David Aronovitz in very small runs, most of which were given away as freebies to his best customers. I now have the Zelazny and Asimov chapbooks (both very hard to find), but still need to track down the rest&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s another chapbook I had been looking for a long time that, like Moorcock&#8217;s Caribbean Crisis, popped up on an ABE Books want search at a bargain price: Asimov, Isaac. Little Brothers. The Pretentious Press, 1988. First edition chapbook original, one of 126 copies signed by Asimov (the only edition), a Fine copy, with two&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/?p=15857\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Library Addition: Signed Asimov Chapbook Little Brothers<\/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":[1973,1143,233,2163,1970,882],"class_list":["post-15857","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-science-fiction","tag-books","tag-chapbooks","tag-isaac-asimov","tag-pretentious-press","tag-science-fiction","tag-signed","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15857","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=15857"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15857\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15868,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15857\/revisions\/15868"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}