{"id":19601,"date":"2021-03-02T11:21:39","date_gmt":"2021-03-02T17:21:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/?p=19601"},"modified":"2021-07-27T12:26:44","modified_gmt":"2021-07-27T17:26:44","slug":"library-addition-signed-limited-edition-of-larry-nivens-the-magic-goes-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/?p=19601","title":{"rendered":"Library Addition: Signed, Limited Edition of Larry Niven&#8217;s The Magic Goes Away"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Larry Niven falls into a sort of weird valley in my collecting history. I read a great deal of Niven in my youth and liked his work, but thought for novels he was better when he collaborated with Jerry Pournelle. By the time I started collecting first editions in the mid-1980s, his print runs had gotten pretty big, and I was more focused on collecting cyberpunk authors. Later, I started going back collecting writers from the Golden Age through the New Wave, Heinlein, Kuttner, Moore, Vance, Zelazny, Dick, etc. While I collected some of the Niven highpoints (such as the Gollancz <b>Ringworld<\/b>) and other works as targets of opportunity, I never made a particular effort to collect hardback firsts of his early works. (I&#8217;ll need to add that to my revised Books Wanted list, currently in progress.) When I picked up <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/?p=19496\"><b>Burning City<\/b> and <b>Burning Tower<\/b><\/a>, I saw that it was set in <b>The Magic Goes Away<\/b> universe, which I haven&#8217;t read and didn&#8217;t own. (I did pick up a TPO first of related book <b>More Magic!<\/b> for something like $2 way back when.) I&#8217;d had the impression it was a TPO only, but in fact there was a 1\/1000 signed, numbered hardback published by Ace (which was not typically known for doing such editions), so I picked up a copy of that.<\/p>\n<p>Niven, Larry. <b>The Magic Goes Away<\/b>. Ace, 1978. First edition hardback, #243 of 1000 signed, numbered copies, a Fine copy in a Fine dust jacket. Signed and hand numbered (it looks like by Niven himself) on the front free endpaper. Bought off the Internet for $38.25<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/fullsizeoutput_1649.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/fullsizeoutput_1649-1024x468.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"206\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-19612\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/fullsizeoutput_1649-1024x468.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/fullsizeoutput_1649-300x137.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/fullsizeoutput_1649-768x351.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Larry Niven falls into a sort of weird valley in my collecting history. I read a great deal of Niven in my youth and liked his work, but thought for novels he was better when he collaborated with Jerry Pournelle. By the time I started collecting first editions in the mid-1980s, his print runs had [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":4,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,137],"tags":[1973,1983,1075,1491],"class_list":["post-19601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-fantasy","tag-books","tag-fantasy","tag-larry-niven","tag-signatures"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19601","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=19601"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19601\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20099,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19601\/revisions\/20099"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}