{"id":20429,"date":"2021-10-13T07:01:04","date_gmt":"2021-10-13T12:01:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/?p=20429"},"modified":"2021-10-13T07:01:04","modified_gmt":"2021-10-13T12:01:04","slug":"library-addition-joe-r-lansdales-tight-little-stitches-in-a-dead-mans-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/?p=20429","title":{"rendered":"Library Addition: Joe R. Lansdale&#8217;s Tight Little Stitches In A Dead Man&#8217;s Back"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Another book for my complete Lansdale collection from that same private collector:<\/p>\n<p>Lansdale, Joe. R. <b>Tight Little Stitches In A Dead Man&#8217;s Back<\/b>. Pulphouse, 1992. First edition hardback chapbook, #70 of 100 signed, numbered copies, a Fine copy, sans dust jacket, as issued. Short story hardback issue #28. Story originally appeared in John Maclay&#8217;s <b>Nukes<\/b> anthology in 1986. This is the first separate edition. Bought from a private collector for $75 (which is considerably more than I paid for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/?p=18084\"><b>The Steel Valentine<\/b><\/a>).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Tight-Little-Stitches.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Tight-Little-Stitches-619x1024.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"744\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-20442\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Tight-Little-Stitches-619x1024.png 619w, https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Tight-Little-Stitches-181x300.png 181w, https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Tight-Little-Stitches-768x1270.png 768w, https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Tight-Little-Stitches.png 863w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I may have mentioned that I avoided the Pulphouse short story hardback line when it first came out, as I had a hard time thinking of them as real books rather than gimmicks, and didn\u2019t expect them to hold their value. Now, after I\u2019ve collected everything else by the author, I\u2019ve been picking them up. Most can still be had cheap, but not this one. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another book for my complete Lansdale collection from that same private collector: Lansdale, Joe. R. Tight Little Stitches In A Dead Man&#8217;s Back. Pulphouse, 1992. First edition hardback chapbook, #70 of 100 signed, numbered copies, a Fine copy, sans dust jacket, as issued. Short story hardback issue #28. Story originally appeared in John Maclay&#8217;s Nukes [&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":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1973,1143,1979,1833,1970,499],"class_list":["post-20429","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-books","tag-chapbooks","tag-horror","tag-pulphouse","tag-science-fiction","tag-small-press-publishers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20429","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=20429"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20429\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20445,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20429\/revisions\/20445"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}