{"id":18497,"date":"2019-09-02T08:00:04","date_gmt":"2019-09-02T13:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/?p=18497"},"modified":"2026-09-03T00:55:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-03T05:55:09","slug":"library-additions-five-signed-firsts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/?p=18497","title":{"rendered":"Library Additions: Five Signed Firsts"},"content":{"rendered":"

All five of these books were picked up from Adventures in Crime & Space at Armadillocon, and all five came from the estate of late SF writer Carrie Richerson.<\/p>\n

  • Banks, Iain. Canal Dreams<\/b>. Macmillian (UK), 1989. First edition hardback, a Fine- copy with a few pinpricks of light staining at head and a small wrinkle at top center to the first few pages, in a Fine dust jacket. Inscribed to Richardson: “Yo, Carrie!\/This one’s for you.\/Iain Banks\/10 March 90\/at Wiscon 14.” Supplements an unsigned copy. Bought for $15.00.\n
  • Banks, Iain. Espedair Street<\/b>. Macmillian (UK), 1987. First edition hardback, a Fine- copy one light pinprick stain at head and slight ear at heel, in a Fine dust jacket. Inscribed to Richardson: “To Carrie!\/Weird regards\/Iain Banks\/10 March 90\/at Wiscon 14.” Supplements an unsigned copy. Bought for $15.00.\n
  • Banks, Iain. The State of the Art<\/b>. Mark V. Ziesing, 1989. First edition hardback, a Fine- with a few pinpricks of light staining at head, in a Fine dust jacket. Inscribed to Richardson: “To Carrie!\/best wishes from am on the\/GS<\/del> GCU Arbitrary\/Iain M. Banks\/10 March 90\/at Wiscon 14.” Interesting that he puts the middle “M” on the signatures for the SF books as well. Supplements an unsigned copy. Bought for $10.\n

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  • Butler, Octavia. Xenogenesis<\/b>. Guild America Books, 1989. First edition hardback thus (an omnibus edition of Dawn<\/b>, Adulthoode Rights<\/b>, and Imago<\/b>), a Fine- copy with slight bumping at head and heel, in a Fine- dust jacket with a trace of edgewear. Inscribed by Butler: “To Carrie\/Good reading\/Octavia E. Butler.” Supplements signed copies of the three individual first editions. Bought for $25.\n

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  • Emshwiller, Carol. Carmen Dog<\/b>. Mercury House, 1990. First edition hardback, a Fine- copy with slight spotting to head, in a Fine dust jacket. Inscribed by Emshwiller: “To Carrie,\/Carol Emshwiller.” Nova Express slipstream list. Bought for $7.50.\n

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    All five of these books were picked up from Adventures in Crime & Space at Armadillocon, and all five came from the estate of late SF writer Carrie Richerson. Banks, Iain. Canal Dreams. Macmillian (UK), 1989. First edition hardback, a Fine- copy with a few pinpricks of light staining at head and a small wrinkle […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":10,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,137,5],"tags":[407,565,1973,2373,1983,911,805,1970,882,773],"class_list":["post-18497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-fantasy","category-science-fiction","tag-adventures-in-crime-and-space","tag-armadillocon","tag-books","tag-carol-emshwiller","tag-fantasy","tag-iain-m-banks","tag-octavia-butler","tag-science-fiction","tag-signed","tag-slipstream"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18497","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=18497"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18497\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25388,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18497\/revisions\/25388"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}