{"id":19489,"date":"2021-02-03T10:21:12","date_gmt":"2021-02-03T16:21:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/?p=19489"},"modified":"2021-02-03T10:21:12","modified_gmt":"2021-02-03T16:21:12","slug":"library-additions-half-price-books-etc-finds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/?p=19489","title":{"rendered":"Library Additions: Half Price Books Etc. Finds"},"content":{"rendered":"

All of these are Half Price Books finds (mostly in Houston) unless otherwise noted, including a fair amount of signed work and non-fiction.<\/p>\n

  • Adams, Douglas. Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency<\/b>. Simon & Schuster, 1987. First edition hardback (simultaneous with the UK Heinemann edition), a Fine copy in a Fine dust jacket. Bought for $9.99.\n
  • Barksdale, Dante, with Grace Kearney. Growing Up Barksdale: A True Baltimore Story<\/b><\/a>. No publisher listed, printed 2020. Trade paperback POD reprint, a Fine copy. Autobiography by a former Baltimore gang member who’s family’s story provided some of the grist for David Simon’s The Wire<\/i>. A Christmas gift from Dwight<\/a>.\n
  • (Ellison, Harlan) Ellen Weil and Gary K. Wolfe. Harlan Ellison: The Edge of Forever<\/b>. Ohio State University Press, 2002. First edition trade paperback original, a Fine- copy with bottom outer edges slightly bumped. Bought for $12.49.\n
  • Gaiman, Neil. The View from the Cheap Seats<\/b>. William Morrow, 2016. First edition hardback, a Fine copy in a Fine dust jacket, signed by Gaiman. Collection of non-fiction (essays, interview, etc.).\n
  • King, Stephen. Lisey’s Story<\/b>. Scribner, 2006. First edition hardback, a Fine copy in a Fine dust jacket. Bought at Goodwill for $3.99. I generally don’t pick up King’s new trade editions because I know they will show up used cheap. And I generally can’t afford the signed limited editions unless they’re coming out from a publisher I’m already a regular customer of and can pick them up at a (usually slight) discount pre-publication. But $3.99 for a perfect copy falls into “good enough” territory.\n
  • McCarthy, Cormac. All the Pretty Horses<\/b>. Knopf, 1992. First edition hardback, an Ex-Library copy with all the usual flaws, otherwise Very Good. A true first of his first Pulitzer winner and first book of the Border trilogy. Bought for $6.99.\n
  • Stephenson, Neal. Seveneves<\/b>. HarperCollins, 2015. First edition hardback, special signed edition with gold “Signed First Edition” sticker on the cover and “THIS SIGNED EDITION OF\/seveneves\/by\/Neal Stephenson\/[signature]\/HAS BEEN SPECIALLY BOUND\/BY THE PUBLISHER” signature page bound in before the half-title page, a Fine copy in a Fine dust jacket. Bought for $9.99.\n
  • Sterling, Bruce. Schismatrix Plus<\/b>. Ace, 1996. First edition trade paperback original, Near Fine- with slight spine crease, slight sun fading to spine, and edgewear, signed by Sterling. Contains the novel plus the Shaper\/Mechanist stories from Crystal Express<\/b>. I never bothered to pick this up when it came out because I already had first editions of both, but picking up variant titles is classic late-phase book collecting behavior. Bought for $7.49.\n
  • (Tolkien, J. R. R.) Day, David. An Encyclopedia of Tolkien: The History and Mythology That inspired Tolkien’s World<\/b>. Canterbury Classics, 2019. First edition hardback, a Fine copy bound in embossed leather, sans dust jacket, as issued. Tolkien reference work by an author who has done a lot of other Tolkien reference works. A very attractive book, with gilded edges and full-color illustrated endpapers, from a publisher that mostly seems to do leatherbound prestige reprints. Bought for $12.49.\n

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    All of these are Half Price Books finds (mostly in Houston) unless otherwise noted, including a fair amount of signed work and non-fiction. Adams, Douglas. Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency. Simon & Schuster, 1987. First edition hardback (simultaneous with the UK Heinemann edition), a Fine copy in a Fine dust jacket. Bought for $9.99. Barksdale, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":3,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,137,5,474],"tags":[1973,18,2058,1724,1983,1130,823,434,946,162,1970,45,471,1987],"class_list":["post-19489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-fantasy","category-science-fiction","category-tv","tag-books","tag-bruce-sterling","tag-cormac-mccarthy","tag-douglas-adams","tag-fantasy","tag-gary-k-wolfe","tag-harlan-ellison","tag-j-r-r-tolkien","tag-neal-stephenson","tag-neil-gaiman","tag-science-fiction","tag-stephen-king","tag-the-wire","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19489","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=19489"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19489\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19504,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19489\/revisions\/19504"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}