{"id":19931,"date":"2021-06-01T14:01:33","date_gmt":"2021-06-01T19:01:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/?p=19931"},"modified":"2021-06-01T14:01:33","modified_gmt":"2021-06-01T19:01:33","slug":"library-additions-two-michael-swanwick-chapbooks-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/?p=19931","title":{"rendered":"Library Additions: Two Michael Swanwick Chapbooks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Or, to be more pedantically correct, two states of the same Michael Swanwick chapbook:<\/p>\n<li>Swanwick, Michael. <b>The Book of Blarney<\/b>. Dragonstairs Press, 2021. First edition chapbook original, #44 of 50 signed, numbered copies, this one in a patterned darker green wraps (call it state A, no precedence), a Fine copy. &#8220;Four whimsical, cynical vignettes on the theme of Ireland&#8217;s religious and literary history. 5 \u00bd by 4 \u00bc inches.  Wrapper of Nepalese lokta paper, in two different states. Decorated with an applied harp label and green ribbon. Numbered and signed by the author. Issued in an edition of 50, 11 of which were distributed to participants of Michael Swanwick&#8217;s virtual kaffeklatch at 2021 Boskone.&#8221;\n<li>Swanwick, Michael. <b>The Book of Blarney<\/b>. Dragonstairs Press, 2021. First edition chapbook original, #48 of 50 signed, numbered copies, this one in solid emerald green wraps (call it state B, no precedence), a Fine copy (though with a wrinkle present in the wraps paper). Both editions sold out the same day they were offered for sale.\n<\/li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Blarney.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Blarney-395x1024.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"395\" height=\"1024\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-19937\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Blarney-395x1024.png 395w, https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Blarney-116x300.png 116w, https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Blarney-768x1993.png 768w, https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Blarney.png 876w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 395px) 100vw, 395px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I will have a very small number of copies available in the next Lame Excuse Books catalog (which next on the to-do list after finishing my taxes).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Or, to be more pedantically correct, two states of the same Michael Swanwick chapbook: Swanwick, Michael. The Book of Blarney. Dragonstairs Press, 2021. First edition chapbook original, #44 of 50 signed, numbered copies, this one in a patterned darker green wraps (call it state A, no precedence), a Fine copy. &#8220;Four whimsical, cynical vignettes on [&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":[1973,1143,2035,1983,1153,499],"class_list":["post-19931","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-fantasy","tag-books","tag-chapbooks","tag-dragonstairs-press","tag-fantasy","tag-michael-swanwick","tag-small-press-publishers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19931","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=19931"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19931\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19939,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19931\/revisions\/19939"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}