{"id":16426,"date":"2017-08-01T12:09:49","date_gmt":"2017-08-01T17:09:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/?p=16426"},"modified":"2017-08-01T12:09:49","modified_gmt":"2017-08-01T17:09:49","slug":"library-additions-three-half-price-books-purchases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/?p=16426","title":{"rendered":"Library Additions: Three Half Price Books Purchases"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here are three random library additions, the only common denominator of which was that I picked all of them up at Half Price Books. <\/p>\n

  • Leckie, Ann. Ancillary Justice<\/b>. Orbit, 2013. First edition trade paperback original, a Fine, new and unready copy. Hugo and Nebula Award winner. Bought for $7.99 at Half Price Books. Supplements the later Gale\/Thorndike Press large print hardback edition and the Subterranean Press signed\/limited edition.\n
  • Pohl, Frederik and Lester Del Rey (as Edson McCann). Preferred Risk<\/b>. Simon and Schuster, 1955. First edition hardback, a Near Fine- copy with page block spotting at heel, in a Near Fine dust jacket with traces of wear at points and moderate soiling to white rear panel. Inscribed by Pohl: “To Rick\u2014\/With all good\/wishes\u2014\/”Edson”\/or\/Fred Pohl.” Currey (1979), page 404. Bought for $8, down from $10 with a 20% off coupon. This is a case of knowing more than the bookseller, since I knew this was a Pohl\/Del Rey pseudonym and what Pohl’s signature looks like. As for the book itself, evidently Galaxy<\/i> magazine and Simon and Schuster ran a contest for an SF novel, didn’t like any of the submissions, and got Pohl and Del Rey to write this under a pseudonym<\/a> for the contest.\n

    \"Preferred<\/a><\/p>\n

    \"IMG_1405\"<\/a><\/p>\n

  • Vachess, Andrew, Geoff Darrow, Michael Black and Gary Gianni. The Shaolin Cowboy Adventure Magazine No. 1<\/b>. Dark Horse, 2012. First edition trade paperback original, a Near Fine+ copy with a small scrape at heel and just a trace of wear. Signed by Vachess, Darrow and Black. Pulp fiction homage that looks like fun. Bought for $7.99.\n

    \"Shaolin<\/a><\/p>\n

    \"IMG_1408\"<\/a>\n<\/li>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Here are three random library additions, the only common denominator of which was that I picked all of them up at Half Price Books. Leckie, Ann. Ancillary Justice. Orbit, 2013. First edition trade paperback original, a Fine, new and unready copy. Hugo and Nebula Award winner. Bought for $7.99 at Half Price Books. Supplements the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":1,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,5],"tags":[2232,1887,1973,707,1802,1343,1970,882],"class_list":["post-16426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-science-fiction","tag-andrew-vachess","tag-ann-leckie","tag-books","tag-frederik-pohl","tag-lester-del-rey","tag-pulp","tag-science-fiction","tag-signed"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16426","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=16426"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16426\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16441,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16426\/revisions\/16441"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}