{"id":16447,"date":"2017-08-31T13:19:18","date_gmt":"2017-08-31T18:19:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/?p=16447"},"modified":"2024-10-12T12:35:17","modified_gmt":"2024-10-12T17:35:17","slug":"overview-of-lawrence-persons-library-2017-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/?p=16447","title":{"rendered":"Overview of Lawrence Person’s Library: 2017 Edition"},"content":{"rendered":"

I decided updated pictures of my library were long overdue, so I took pictures of all my personal library bookshelves (as opposed to Lame Excuse Books stock<\/a>) with my iPhone, which seems to do a better job than my old digital camera anyway.<\/p>\n

I tried to make the pics close and large enough that you could read the titles (which is, I think, one of the main points of photographing your library), though that’s not always the case. (Click to embiggen any of these.) <\/p>\n

I’ve listed very brief high points, but at some point I want to do several more comprehensive posts, probably broken up by letter (A, B, etc.) which will go into more detail and show individual books. But if I did that here I’d probably break your browser!<\/p>\n

As usual, all of these are Fine first edition hardbacks in Fine dust jackets unless otherwise stated. <\/p>\n

Where you see a dust jacket sitting on top of other books, I was reading that book when I took these pictures. <\/p>\n

This is just the fiction. I’ll get to the non-fiction, graphic novels, art books, science fiction reference books, etc. at a later date.<\/p>\n

Not all the pictures are perfect, and I may swap them out for better ones as time permits.<\/p>\n

Oversized Fiction<\/h3>\n

These are all the hardback fiction books that were simply too big to fit anywhere else. <\/p>\n

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Highlights:<\/p>\n

  • The traycase edition of Greg Bear’s Sleepside Story<\/b>.\n
  • Several signed oversized Ray Bradbury books.\n
  • A copy of Lord John Ten<\/b> inscribed to Neal Barrett, Jr. by Ray Bradbury.\n
  • Several signed Harlan Ellison limiteds.\n
  • Three signed Stephen King books (Desperation<\/b>, Insomnia<\/b>, The Black House<\/b>).\n
  • The lettered traycase edition of George R. R. Martin’s GRRM<\/b>.\n
  • Several signed Richard Matheson books.\n
  • Two Charnel House books (Ellison’s Coffin Nails<\/b> and Tim Powers’ Deliver Me From Evil<\/b>).\n
  • Three Centipede Press books (the Ambrose Bierce, Tim Powers’ The Anubis Gates<\/b> Michael Shea’s The Autopsy and Other Tales<\/b>.)\n
  • Lucius Shepard’s The Last Time<\/b>.\n
  • A binder full of hand-written Roger Zelazny manuscripts.\n<\/li>\n

    A\u2014Ba<\/h3>\n

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    Highlights:<\/p>\n

  • A signed Douglas Adams Mostly Harmless<\/b>.\n
  • Some signed Brian Aldiss (RIP<\/a>).\n
  • The three Gnome Press Foundation<\/b> books, plus the signed Whispers Press Foundation’s Edge<\/b>, plus several other signed Asimovs.\n
  • A first edition of Attanasio’s Radix<\/b>.\n
  • Signed firsts of Paolo Bacigalupi’s The Windup Girl<\/b> and the signed limited edition of Pump Six And Other Stories<\/b>.\n<\/li>\n

    Bal\u2014Bax<\/h3>\n

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  • Several Ballard firsts (including The Drought<\/b> and Empire of the Sun<\/b>), some signed (such as The Atrocity Exhibition<\/b>).\n
  • A nearly complete Iain Banks collection (missing one or two of the last ones), including all the early ones, including The Wasp Factory<\/b> and Use of Weapons<\/b>, some signed.\n
  • Nearly complete Clive Barker up to about ten years ago, many signed, including the limited edition UK Weaveworld<\/b> and all six of the Wiedenfield & Nicholson Books of Blood<\/b>.\n
  • A complete collection of Neal Barrett, Jr. fiction hardbacks, all signed or inscribed.\n
  • Some Stephen Baxter (mostly early books), including Raft<\/b> and The Time Ships<\/b>, some signed.\n<\/li>\n

    Bax\u2014Bi<\/h3>\n

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  • More Stephen Baxter\n
  • Some Peter S. Beagle books, including The Last Unicorn<\/b> and A Fine and Private Place<\/b>, most signed.\n
  • A complete Greg Bear collection (save a few recent ones), most signed or inscribed to me.\n
  • Some Gregory Benford, including the Cheap Street Of Space\/Time and the River<\/b> and Timescape<\/b>.\n
  • An incomplete Alfred Bester collection, including a pristine The Demolished Man<\/b> with Bester’s business card laid in, and an imperfect Who He?<\/b> inscribed.\n
  • A nearly-complete Michael Bishop collection (a new one may be out), including No Enemy But Time<\/b>, most inscribed to me.\n<\/li>\n

    Bi\u2014Br<\/h3>\n

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  • Nearly complete James P. Blaylock in hardback, several early ones inscribed to me.\n
  • Decent Robert Bloch collection, including an imperfect Psycho<\/b> and several signed books.\n
  • Very incomplete Leigh Bracket collection, but including the very difficult first hardback of The Sword of Rhiannon<\/b>.\n
  • A not-even-remotely-complete Ray Bradbury collection, but including some 30 signed firsts, including The Silver Locusts<\/b>.
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    Br\u2014Bu<\/h3>\n

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  • Small Ernest Bramah collection, including The Moon of Much Gladness<\/b> in dust jacket.\n
  • Early David Brin collection, including Startide Rising<\/b>, The Uplift War<\/b>, and his Cheap Street book, Dr. Pak’s Preschoool<\/b>.\n
  • Some John Brunner, including a signed The Sheep Look Up<\/b> and a Fine\/Fine Stand On Zanzibar<\/b>.\n
  • Signed\/limited edition (only hardback) of Steven Brust’s To Reign in Hell<\/b>.\n
  • Some signed William F. Buckley, Jr.<\/a>.\n
  • Several signed Lois McMaster Bujold Hugo and Nebula winners, including the Easton signed\/limited (and first hardback editions) of Barrayar<\/b> and The Vor Game<\/b>.\n
  • William S. Burroughs’ The Place of Dead Roads<\/b> inscribed to his agent.
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    Bu\u2014Ch<\/h3>\n

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  • Complete Octavia Butler collection, including Survivor<\/b>, some inscribed to me.\n
  • A rebound first of Samuel Butler\u2019s Erewhon<\/b><\/a> from 1872.\n
  • A complete Pat Cadigan collection (save some media tie-in work), several inscribed to me.\n
  • Some Ramsey Campbell.\n
  • A complete Jonathan Carroll collection, including The Land of Laughs<\/b>, most signed.\n
  • A complete Orson Scott Card collection up to the point I stopped reading him (which was Xenocide<\/b>), including an inscribed Ender’s Game<\/b>.\n
  • Some Angela Carter, including The Infernal Desire Machines of Dr. Hoffman<\/b> (from Carter’s own copies) and The Passion of New Eve<\/b>.\n
  • Most of Michael Chabon, including The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay<\/b> and The Yiddish Policeman’s Union<\/b>, many inscribed to me.\n
  • The true first edition of Robert W. Chamber’s The King in Yellow<\/b><\/a>; not really visible in this picture since the trim size is so small.\n<\/li>\n

    Ch\u2014Cr<\/h3>\n

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  • Some Arthur C. Clarke, including firsts of Against the Fall of Night<\/b> and Earthlight<\/b>, an imperfect copy of Childhood’s End<\/b> (with a Clarke signature plate and photo laid in) and his Hugo winners Rendezvous With Rama<\/b> and The Fountains of Paradise<\/b>.\n
  • Most of Hal Clement, including a nice Iceworld<\/b>, a signed, imperfect Mission of Gravity<\/b>, and the three volume NESFA set are all signed as well.\n
  • A signed copy of Suzy McKee Charnes\u2019 The Vampire Tapestry<\/b>.\n
  • Most of the early Storm Constantine.\n
  • All the early John Crowley, including signed copies of The Deep<\/b>, Engine Summer<\/b> and (in the next pic) the Gollancz Little, Big<\/b>.
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    Cr-De<\/h3>\n

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  • Signed hardback editions of the first 17 issues of Postscripts<\/b>, plus #24\/25. (I’m in three of these<\/a>.)\n
  • Most of the Datlow\/Windling Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror<\/b> series (I think I lack a few latter ones).\n
  • Complete Avram Davidson in hardback (save one hardback chapbook), including the hardback edition of El Vilvoy de las Islas<\/b>.\n
  • Some L. Sprague de Camp, some signed.\n
  • Most of the early Samuel R. Delany, including Babel-17<\/b> and The Einstein Intersection<\/b>, all signed by Delany.\n<\/li>\n

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  • I’m about four difficult books away from a complete Philip K. Dick in hardback collection. Highlights of what I have include imperfect copies of Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep<\/b>, The Man in the High Castle<\/b>, The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch<\/b>, Counter Clock World<\/b>, Time Out of Joint<\/b>, Ubik<\/b>, A Handful of Darkness<\/b> and World of Chance<\/b>, firsts HBs of The Penultimate Truth<\/b>, The Simulacra<\/b>, The Man Who Japed<\/b>, The Game Players of Titan<\/b>, and Confessions of a Crap Artist<\/b>, a really nice copy of A Scanner Darkly<\/b>, both the Underwood\/Miller and Subterranean Collected Stories of Philip K. Dick<\/b>, and the signed edition of the Levack PKD<\/b> bibliography, the only Dick signature in my collection.\n
  • A reasonably complete Thomas M. Disch science fiction collection (I’m missing some of his poetry volumes), including The Genocides<\/b>, Camp Concentration<\/b>, 334<\/b>, and his Cheap Street volume Torturing Mr. Amberwell<\/b>.\n
  • Nearly complete Paul Di Filippo collection, many inscribed, including a PC copy of the 1\/100 hardback copy edition of Spondulix<\/b>.\n<\/li>\n

    Di-El<\/h3>\n

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  • I have a complete collection of Gardner Dozois’ authored books, and hardback first of all the Year’s Best Science Fiction<\/b> up through the 14th volume (and just a few missing after that), many inscribed to me by Gardner, and many signed by several story contributors.\n
  • A nearly complete George Alec Effinger collection, many inscribed to me.\n
  • Complete (save a couple of very recent books) Greg Egan collection, including An Unusual Angle<\/b>, Quarantine<\/b>, Permutation City<\/b>, and an association copy of Axiomatic<\/b> inscribed to his editor David Pringle. (Inscribed Egan books are genuinely rare, much less association copies.)\n<\/li>\n

    El-Fo<\/h3>\n

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  • Nearly complete collection of Harlan Ellison in hardback (at least up through when he started issuing his own books), many signed.\n
  • A good ways toward a complete Philip Jose Farmer collection in hardback, including Too Your Scattered Bodies Go<\/b>, many signed, including Doc Savage: His Apocalyptic Life<\/b>, Lord Tyger<\/b> and Love Song<\/b>.\n
  • The first English-language edition of Camille Flammarion\u2019s Urania<\/b> and the first U.S. edition of Lumen<\/b>.\n<\/li>\n

    Fo-Gi<\/h3>\n

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  • Complete Neil Gaiman prose collection up to a few years ago, including the signed\/limited BCC Books (true first) edition of Neverwhere<\/b>, Murder Mysteries: A Play For Voices<\/b>, Snow Glass Apples: A Play For Voices<\/b>, and the Lettered editions of the Subterranean M is for Magic<\/b>. (The hardbound Gaiman graphic novels are shelved elsewhere.)\n
  • Nearly complete John Gardner collection, including Grendel<\/b>.\n
  • Several Ray Garton books, including Crucifax Autumn<\/b> and Live Girls<\/b>.\n
  • Almost complete Jane Gaskell collection.\n
  • Complete Mary Gentle collection up to a few years ago.\n
  • A complete William Gibson collection (excepting Agrippa<\/b>, which wasn’t a book), including the Gollancz Neuromancer<\/b> inscribed to me.
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    Gi-Ho<\/h3>\n

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  • William Goldman\u2019s The Princess Bride<\/b>.\n
  • True first of Alasdair Gray’s Lanark<\/b>.\n
  • A number of Joe Haldeman books, including an imperfect Forever War<\/b>.\n
  • Several Peter F. Hamilton books, including The Reality Dysfunction<\/b>.\n
  • Several Harry Harrison books, some signed.\n
  • Several Robert A. Heinlein firsts, including imperfect copies of Starship Troopers<\/b>, The Moon is a Harsh Mistress<\/b>, Stranger in a Strange Land<\/b> and Double Star<\/b>, as well as nice copies of Sixth Column<\/b>, Assignment in Eternity<\/b>, The Star Beast<\/b>, The Puppet Masters<\/b> and Podkayne of Mars<\/b>, as well as a signed book club edition of Time for the Stars<\/b> (my only Heinlein signature).\n
  • A very imperfect true first of Frank Herbert’s Dune<\/b>.\n
  • Several Joe Hill books, including two states of 20th Century Ghosts<\/b> and the traycase edition of Horns<\/b>.\n
  • William Hope Hodgson’s House on the Borderland<\/b> and Deep Waters<\/b>.\n
  • All six of Robert E. Howard’s Gnome Press Conan books.\n<\/li>\n

    Ho-Kr<\/h3>\n

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  • Barry Hughart\u2019s Bridge of Birds<\/b>, The Story of the Stone<\/b>, and Eight Skilled Gentlemen<\/b>, plus the signed Subterranean press omnibus.\n
  • A nearly complete Shirley Jackson collection, including nice copies of The Road Through the Wall<\/b> and The Haunting of Hill House<\/b>.\n
  • Daniel Keyes\u2019 Flowers for Algernon<\/b>.\n
  • A good bit of Stephen King, including both the slipcase and traycase editions of the Colorado Kid<\/b>, the signed\/limited edition of Under the Dome<\/b>, The Dark Tower: The Gunslinger<\/b>, and an imperfect first of The Shining<\/b>. The Talisman<\/b> is the Grant “trade” edition, which in this case has been signed by Peter Straub.\n
  • A complete Russel Kirk fiction collection, most signed.\n
  • Some Nancy Kress.\n<\/li>\n

    Kr-La<\/h3>\n

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  • Some Henry Kuttner, including Robots Have No Tails<\/b>.\n
  • A complete R.A. Lafferty in hardback collection (save one chapbook), some signed, including 1\/50 signed copies of Tales of Chicago<\/b> and Tales of Midnight<\/b>.\n
  • Some Jay lake, most inscribed to me.\n
  • A complete Joe R. Lansdale collection, including the rare Chivers Texas Night Riders<\/b>, The Magic Wagon<\/b>, the lettered traycase editions of A Fistfull of Stories<\/b> and For a few Stories More<\/b>, 1\/26 hardback copies of My Dead Dog Bobby<\/b>, 1\/100 hardback copies of Lansdale and Shiner’s Private Eye Action As You Like It<\/b>, and many others, all signed or inscribed to me.\n<\/li>\n

    La-Lo<\/h3>\n

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  • The rest of the hardback Lansdale.\n
  • Both the true HB first (a large print edition) and the Subterranean limited of Ann Leckie’s Ancillary Justice<\/b>.\n
  • Some Tanith Lee, several signed.\n
  • A goodly amount of Ursula K. Le Guin, including imperfect firsts of The Left Hand of Darkness<\/b>, The Dispossessed<\/b> and A Wizard of Earthsea<\/b>, two Cheap Street hardback chapbooks, and the signed\/limited edition true first hardback of Always Coming Home<\/b> (with the included cassette tape), which is supposedly quite dreadful.\n
  • Closing in on a complete Fritz Leiber collection, including a signed Our Lady of Darkness<\/b> and Nights Black Agents<\/b>, plus several Gregg Press firsts, including The Big Time<\/b>, The Sinful Ones<\/b>, and the six volume Farhard and Gray Mouser set.\n
  • The first English-language edition of Stanislaw Lem\u2019s Solaris<\/b>.\n
  • A pretty good Thomas Ligotti collection, including the hardback of The Agonizing Resurrection of Victor Frankenstein & Other Gothic Tales<\/b>.\n
  • The start of the H.P. Lovecraft collection, including some of the latter Arkhams and the Variorum Edition of his complete work, as well as an envelop hand-addressed by Lovecraft.\n<\/li>\n

    Lo-Ma<\/h3>\n

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  • The rest of the Lovecraft, as well as Cthulhu Mythos anthologies by various editors. I’ll probably file these by editor the next time I add a bookshelf.\n
  • Some Brian Lumley.\n
  • All Ken MacLeod’s novels up to a few years ago.\n
  • Something approaching a complete collection of George R. R. Martin’s fiction, though I’m missing a couple of the recent Game of Thrones<\/b> books and a lot of his anthologies. Includes U.S. first of A Game of Thrones<\/b> inscribed to me, the signed\/limited Armageddon Rag<\/b>, the true first signed\/limited edition of Songs the Dead Men Sing<\/b> (the very first Dark Harvest book), and the leatherbound signed\/limited “slipcrate” edition of Portraits of His Children<\/b>.\n<\/li>\n

    Ma-Mc<\/h3>\n

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  • Closing in on a complete Richard Matheson collection, including Born of Man and Woman<\/b>, imperfect firsts of Hell House<\/b>, The Shrinking Man<\/b> and I Am Legend<\/b>, and several of the signed Gauntlet, etc. books.\n
  • A lot of Paul J. McAuley.\n
  • A lot of Robert R. McCammon.\n
  • Some Jack McDevitt.\n
  • Complete Ian McDonald collection, all but one or two inscribed to me, including the true UK first of River of Gods<\/b>.\n<\/li>\n

    Mc-Ni<\/h3>\n

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  • Larry McMurtry’s Lonesome Dove<\/b>\n
  • Nearly complete China Mieville collection, including Perdido Street Station<\/b> and The Tain<\/b>.\n
  • An imperfect first of Walter M. Miller’s A Canticle for Leibowitz<\/b>\n
  • Quite a bit of Michael Moorcock, including Behold the Man<\/b>, Stormbringer<\/b> and Gloriana<\/b>, all signed or inscribed.\n
  • Some C.L. Moore, including Judgment Night<\/b>, Shambleau<\/b>, and signed firsts of Mutant<\/b> and Black God’s Shadow<\/b>.\n
  • A couple of books away from a complete Ward Moore collection, including Cloud By Day<\/b>.\n
  • All Richard Morgan’s early books, including Altered Carbon<\/b>.\n
  • Some David Morrell, including First Blood<\/b>.\n
  • Some signed Haruki Murakami.\n
  • Some Pat Murphy, including The Falling Woman<\/b>.\n
  • John Myers Myers’ Silverlock<\/b>.\n
  • Most of Kim Newman’s early books (at least those under his own name), including Anno Dracula<\/b>.\n
  • A complete set of the Night Visions<\/b> series, some (Barker, Lansdale, Martin) signed or inscribed.\n
  • A good bit of Larry Niven, including an imperfect but very clean copy of the Gollancz Ringworld<\/b>.\n<\/li>\n

    Ni-Po<\/h3>\n

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  • Complete Chad Oliver collection, including the Ballantine hardback of Shadows in the Sun<\/b>, The Mists of Dawn<\/b> and the Jenkins The Wolf is My Brother<\/b>.\n
  • The true Secker & Warburg first edition of George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four<\/b> (green state dust jacket, no priority).\n
  • Alexi Panshin\u2019s Rite of Passage<\/b>.\n
  • A good bit of Frederik Pohl, most signed, including Gateway<\/b>, Man Plus<\/b> and The Space Merchants<\/b>, and most of the collaborations with Jack Williamson here are also signed by both Pohl and Williamson.\n
  • A complete Tim Powers collection, most signed or inscribed, including the Chatto & Windus Anubis Gates<\/b>, several Charnel House limiteds, and the ultra-limited edition of the John Berlyne’s Powers bibliography, which includes a bound holographic copy of The Anubis Gates<\/b>.\n<\/li>\n

    Po-Ri<\/h3>\n

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  • Some Christopher Priest, including Inverted World<\/b> and The Prestige<\/b>.\n
  • Complete run of Pulphouse: The Hardback Magazine<\/b>, plus the signed\/limited edition of Issue Eight<\/b>, which is signed by Greg Egan.\n
  • Thomas Pynchon’s The Crying of Lot 49<\/b>.\n
  • Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged<\/b>.\n
  • A complete Alastair Reynolds collection (save a few recent books), most signed, including Revelation Space<\/b>.\n
  • A good bit of early Anne Rice, including Interview With the Vampire<\/b> and The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty<\/b>.\n<\/li>\n

    Ri-Sc<\/h3>\n

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  • Most of the early Kim Stanley Robinson, including the Mars<\/b> trilogy and his Cheap Street book, The Blind Geometer<\/b>.\n
  • A good bit of Rudy Rucker, including one of 350 signed, numbered copies of Transreal!<\/b>\n
  • Sarban’s The Sound of His Horn<\/b>.\n<\/li>\n

    Sc-Si<\/h3>\n

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  • Garrett P. Serviss’ Edison’s Invasion of Mars<\/b>.\n
  • Some Bob Shaw, including a signed copy of The Palace of Eternity<\/b>.\n
  • A complete Michael Shea collection, including the hardback edition of Nifft the Lean<\/b>.\n
  • Some Robert Sheckley, including the five volume Collected Stories<\/b>.\n
  • A complete Lucius Shepard collection, most signed.\n
  • A complete Lew Shiner collection, many inscribed to me.\n
  • A complete John Shiirley hardback collection (up to a few years ago, anyway), most signed, including one of only 50 hardback copies of Black Glass<\/b> and one of only 100 signed, numbered hardback copies of Really, Really, Really, Really Weird Stories<\/b>.\n<\/li>\n

    Si-Sm<\/h3>\n

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  • A lot of Robert Silverberg.\n
  • Clifford Simak’s City<\/b>.\n
  • A complete Dan Simmons collection, several signed, including Hyperion<\/b>, Song of Kali<\/b>, and Entropy’s Bed at Midnight<\/b>.\n
  • A lot of John Sladek, some signed.\n
  • A pretty good Clark Ashton Smith collection, including Out of Space and Time<\/b>, Lost Worlds<\/b> and Other Dimensions<\/b>.\n<\/li>\n

    Sm-St<\/h3>\n

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  • A complete Cordwainer Smith collection, including three novels he did under his other<\/i> pseudonyms, Ria<\/b>, Corelia<\/b> and Atomsk<\/b>.\n
  • A few E. E.”Doc” Smith novels, including the true first of The Skylark of Space<\/b>, and the signed editions of Second Stage Lensman<\/b> and Skylark Three<\/b>.\n
  • A complete William Browning Spencer collection, all signed or inscribed to me.\n
  • Some Brian Stableford.\n
  • Some Olaf Stapledon, including jacketless firsts of Last and First Men<\/b> and Odd Job<\/b>.\n
  • A good bit of Neal Stephenson, including inscribed firsts of Snow Crash<\/b> and The Diamond Age<\/b>.\n
  • A Complete Bruce Sterling collection, most inscribed to me, including a Mirrorshades<\/b> signed or inscribed by most of the contributors.\n
  • Complete Charles Stross up to a few years ago.\n<\/li>\n

    St-Va<\/h3>\n

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  • Some Theodore Sturgeon, including the completed Collected Stories<\/b>.\n
  • A complete Michael Swanwick collection, including Stations of the Tide<\/b>, one of only 30 signed hardbacks of Puck Aleshire\u2019s Abecedary<\/b>, and several short-run Dragon Stairs Press books.\n
  • Some Tolkien, including most of the U.S. History of Middle Earth<\/b> firsts.\n
  • A nice copy of Steven Utley and Geo W. Proctor’s Lone Star Universe<\/b> signed by most of the contributors.\n
  • The start of the Jack Vance section. I’m closing in on a complete Vance hardback collection, but I’m not quite there yet. This case includes the Underwood\/Miller signed\/limited editions of Ariminta Station<\/b>, Throy<\/b>, Bird Isle<\/b>\/Take My Face<\/b>, The Dark Side of the Moon<\/b>, the Subterranean Press lettered\/traycase edition of Dangerous Ways<\/b>, The Deadly Isles<\/b>, and a signed Dragon Masters<\/b>.\n<\/li>\n

    Va-Wa<\/h3>\n

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  • The rest of the Vance hardbacks, including one of 200 signed sets of the 44 volume Vance Integral Edition<\/b>, a signed Ballantine Books hardback state of To Live Forever<\/b>, the beautiful Underwood Books signed\/limited edition of Night Lamp<\/b>, the Underwood Books limited Ports of Call<\/b>, #2 of 200 signed\/numbered copies of Light From a Lone Star<\/b>, one of 111 signed hardback copies of The Seventeen Virgins\/The Bagful of Dreams<\/b>, and the Gollancz Four Men Called John<\/b>, among many, many others.\n
  • A complete Vernor Vinge collection, most signed, including A Fire Upon the Deep<\/b> and A Deepness in the Sky<\/b>.\n
  • Richard Vollmann’s You Bright and Risen Angels<\/b> and Rainbow Stories<\/b>.\n
  • A pretty complete Karl Edward Wagner collection, some signed.\n<\/li>\n

    Wa-We<\/h3>\n

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  • A complete Howard Waldrop collection, including his two Cheap Street books, all signed or inscribed.\n
  • Complete Peter Watts collection.\n
  • A few Stanley G. Weinbaum volumes, including one of 250 copies of the 1936 Dawn of Flame<\/b><\/a>.\n
  • Closing in on a complete Manly Wade Wellman collection, including Who Fears the Devil?<\/b>, Lonely Vigils<\/b>, a first of Worse Things Waiting<\/b> inscribed to horror writer Dennis Etchison, and a copy of Third String Center<\/b> inscribed to his brother, western writer Paul I. Wellman.\n
  • Some H. G. Wells, including some later firsts in dust jacket and the signed, numbered three volume first edition of The World of William Clissold<\/b><\/a>.\n<\/li>\n

    We-Wo<\/h3>\n

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  • Some Jack Williamson.\n
  • Nearly complete Connie Willis, almost all signed, including Doomsday Book<\/b>.\n
  • A nearly complete Gene Wolfe collection, including all the The Book of the New Sun<\/b>, The Book of the Long Sun<\/b>, and Book of the Short Sun<\/b> volumes (plus The Castle of the Otter<\/b>, all inscribed or signed, his two Cheap Street hardbacks (Empires of Flowers and Foliage<\/b> and Biblioman<\/b>), and one of 100 hardback copies of The Young Wolfe<\/b>. (The hardback edition of Letters Home<\/b> is in the non-fiction reference library).\n<\/li>\n

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    I have a fairly ridiculous amount of signed Roger Zelazny first editions, manuscripts, etc., thanks in no small part to two<\/a> very extensive<\/a> purchases of Zelazny material. Though I would like to trade up my imperfect Nine Princes in Amber<\/b> and my signed, imperfect Lord of Light<\/b>, all my other Zelazny hardbacks are Fine\/Fine copies, and most signed, including Creatures of Light and Darkness<\/b>, The Dream Master<\/b>, one of 200 signed, hardback copies of For a Breath I Tarry<\/b> (which, since it has a number of blank pages in the back, I’ve had signed by some 60-70 other science fiction writers, etc.), one of 35 signed hardback copies of The Last Defender of Camelot<\/b>, one of only 21 lettered, hardback copies of Kovacs’ The Ides of Octember: A Pictorial Bibliography of Roger Zelazny<\/b> with a Zelazny signature sheet bound in, etc. Those binders you see contain original Zelazny manuscripts, some proof copies, some typescripts, and some hand-written, including The Changing Land<\/b>, “The Last Defender of Camelot”<\/b>, “Unicorn Variations”<\/b>, Dilvish the Damned<\/b>, Knight of Shadows<\/b>, etc. (Upstairs, in the non-fiction section, I have Roger Zelazny’s professional correspondence archive in two large binders.) <\/p>\n

    Trade Paperbacks<\/h3>\n

    This includes proofs, chapbooks, etc.<\/p>\n

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    Notable items:<\/p>\n

  • Isaac Asimov’s Little Brothers<\/b>, one of 126 signed copies.\n
  • One of 100 signed copies of J. G. Ballard\u2019s News from the Sun<\/b>.\n
  • Signed copy of David Brin’s The Tides of Kithrup<\/b> (the proof of Startide Rising<\/b>)\n
  • An issue of Chacal<\/i> signed by Tom Reamy.\n
  • A copy of Young Author’s Club: The Wartime Adolescent Writings of Philip K. Dick<\/b>, one of 100 copies.\n
  • Some signed Thomas Disch poetry collections.\n
  • Both blue and green variant covers of Neil Gaiman and Gene Wolfe\u2019s A Walking Tour of the Shambles<\/b>, inscribed to me by both.\n
  • A proof of the never-published random house edition of Sherry Jones’ The Jewel of Medina<\/b>.\n
  • A complete collection of R. A. Lafferty chapbooks, some signed.\n
  • Numerous Joe R. Lansdale trade paperbacks and proofs.\n
  • The proof of George R. R. Martin’s never published John W. Campbell Awards Volume 6<\/b>\n
  • A signed copy of Michael Moorcocks’s tabloid-form Sex Pistols novel, The Great Rock-and-Roll Swindle<\/b>.\n
  • James Morrow\u2019s The Adventures of Smoke Baily<\/b>, a novella only included as part of the packaging for a video game.\n
  • The proof (actually true first edition, since it was for sale) of Richard Matheson’s Collected Stories<\/b>.\n
  • Proof of Chad Oliver’s The Cannibal Owl<\/b>.\n
  • A signed, hand-corrected copy of Clark Ashton Smith’s The Double Shadow<\/b>.\n
  • Jack Vance’s The Space Pirates<\/b> and The Avatar\u2019s Apprentice<\/b>, one of only 30 copies.\n
  • Lew Shiner’s Modern Stories Number One<\/B> signed by most of the contributors, including William Gibson and Howard Waldrop.\n
  • Dan Simmons\u2019 Banished Dreams<\/b>.\n
  • Inscribed copies of Neal Stephenson\u2019s The Big U<\/b> and Zodiac<\/b>, as well as signed proofs of Interface<\/b> and The Cobweb<\/b>.\n
  • One of only 25 copies of Howard Waldrop’s self-published The Soul-Taker<\/b> from 1966.\n
  • Manly Wade Wellman’s The Invading Asteroid<\/b> and Devil’s Planet<\/b>.\n
  • Lots of Gene Wolfe proofs, plus Talk of Mandrakes<\/b> and four Cheap Street chapbooks<\/a>.\n
  • Loads and load of signed Roger Zelazny proofs, plus Poems<\/b> and A Rhapsody in Amber<\/b>.\n<\/li>\n

    Mass Market Paperbacks<\/h3>\n

    Since I started concentrating on hardbacks very early it, I actually have fewer paperbacks than hardback.<\/p>\n

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    Notable items (all paperback originals unless otherwise noted):<\/p>\n

  • Several signed Aaron Allston books.\n
  • All six true first edition\/first printing\/first state of Clive Barker’s Books of Blood<\/b>, all signed.\n
  • Some signed Neal Barrett, Jr.\n
  • A copy of John Brunner\u2019s pseudonymously published porn novel The Incestuous Lovers<\/b>.\n
  • Some signed Pat Cadigan, including a paperback proof of Synners<\/b>.\n
  • A lot of Philip K. Dick.\n
  • A lot of Harlan Ellison.\n
  • Some Philip Jose Farmer, including Love Song<\/b> and an association copy of Down in the Black Gang<\/b> inscribed to Bruce Sterling.\n
  • Some Ray Garton.\n
  • An inscribed William Gibson Neuromancer<\/b>.\n
  • Some signed Harry Harrison.\n
  • Some signed K.W. Jeter, including Seeklight<\/b> and The Dreamfields<\/b>.\n
  • All R.A. Lafferty’s PBOs, including Ringing Changes<\/b>.\n
  • Several signed Joe Lansdale PBOs, including his three MIA Hunter<\/b> books and the very rare Molly’s Sexual Follies<\/b>, the last also co-signed by co-author Brad Foster.\n
  • Some Tanith Lee.\n
  • Some George R.R. Martin, including most of the Wild Cards<\/b> books, the early ones signed by George and several other contributors.\n
  • Some signed Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle reprints.\n
  • All Tim Powers PBOs, signed.\n
  • Spider Robinson’s Antimony<\/b>.\n
  • All Rudy Rucker’s PBOs, including White Light<\/b>, The Sex Sphere<\/b>, Spacetime Donuts<\/b>, and The 57th Franz Kafka<\/b>.\n
  • All Michael Shea’s PBOs, some signed.\n
  • Several John Shirley PBOs, most signed, including The Brigade<\/b>, Cellars<\/b> and City Come A’Walkin<\/b>.\n
  • All John Skipp & Craig Spector’s PBOs, several signed.\n
  • A good bit of Brian Stableford.\n
  • Inscribed true (Canadian) first of Sean Stewart’s Passion Play<\/b>.\n
  • Bruce Sterling’s Involution Ocean<\/b> and A Good Old Fashioned Future<\/b>, inscribed.\n
  • Some Theodore Sturgeon, several PBOs, one reprint signed.\n
  • A lot of Jack Vance, some signed.\n
  • Some Manly Wade Wellman PBOs, including the rare movie novelization A Double Life<\/b>.\n
  • A whole lot of Zelazny, almost all of it signed.\n<\/li>\n

    Finally, note that while none of these books are for sale, I do have many science fiction, fantasy and horror first editions (many signed) available through the Lame Excuse Books web page<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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