{"id":17331,"date":"2018-06-29T08:00:01","date_gmt":"2018-06-29T13:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/?p=17331"},"modified":"2018-07-15T16:31:36","modified_gmt":"2018-07-15T21:31:36","slug":"library-addition-signed-first-of-harlan-ellisons-rumble","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/?p=17331","title":{"rendered":"Library Addition: Signed First of Harlan Ellison’s Rumble"},"content":{"rendered":"

I had already purchased this and was about to cue it up here when news of Ellison’s death reached me. This is the most I’ve ever paid for a mass-market paperback, but signed copies usually go for about thrice what I paid for this.<\/p>\n

Ellison, Harlan. Rumble<\/b>. Pyramid Books, 1958. First edition paperback original (“Pyramid Books edition 1958” on copyright page and 35\u00a2 price, as per Currey), a Near Fine copy with slight wear along spine, faint crease on top front corner, slight characteristic age-darkening of pages, and a few other touches of wear, otherwise a bright, tight, square copy of a book usually found in much worse shape. Inscribed by Ellison: “Best of\/luck to Perry\/and to Sue, undisguised\/lust and an all-expense paid\/trip to anywhere with me\/Harlan Ellison\/22 JAN 73”. Mainstream novel of juvenile delinquency. Currey (1979), page 179. Slusser, Harlan Ellison: Unrepentant Harlequin<\/b>, page 62, 1. Segaloff, A Lit Fuse<\/b>, page 75. Bought for $66 off eBay. <\/p>\n

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I had already purchased this and was about to cue it up here when news of Ellison’s death reached me. This is the most I’ve ever paid for a mass-market paperback, but signed copies usually go for about thrice what I paid for this. Ellison, Harlan. Rumble. Pyramid Books, 1958. First edition paperback original (“Pyramid […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":9,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,137,56,5],"tags":[1973,1983,823,2275,1970],"class_list":["post-17331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-fantasy","category-horror","category-science-fiction","tag-books","tag-fantasy","tag-harlan-ellison","tag-pbo","tag-science-fiction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17331","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=17331"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17331\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17367,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17331\/revisions\/17367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}