{"id":20489,"date":"2021-11-08T07:30:54","date_gmt":"2021-11-08T13:30:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/?p=20489"},"modified":"2023-12-27T22:27:00","modified_gmt":"2023-12-28T04:27:00","slug":"library-addition-charnel-house-limited-of-tim-powers-last-call","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/?p=20489","title":{"rendered":"Library Addition: Charnel House Limited of Tim Powers Last Call"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a limited edition I&#8217;ve long wanted to pick up. Indeed, the <i>lettered<\/i> edition of this is considered one of the most extravagant and desirable modern limited editions, but that was sold out before I even heard about it, and the last time I saw one for sale it went for something like $6,500.<\/p>\n<p>Powers, Tim. <b>Last Call<\/b>. Charnel House, 1992. First edition hardback (&#8220;by a whisker&#8221; says Chalker\/Owings), #141 of 350 signed, numbered copies, a Fine copy in a Fine- decorated slipcase with some rubbing to bottom and at points. His celebrated &#8220;playing poker with Tarot cards&#8221; book, and the first (and best) in a loose trilogy. Berlyne, A8b.1. Chalker\/Owings (2002), page 211. Bought from a noted SF book dealer for $325. I think I now have all the Charnel House Powers limiteds (at least in numbered state).  <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Charnel-Last-Call.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Charnel-Last-Call-685x1024.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"673\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-20493\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Charnel-Last-Call-685x1024.png 685w, https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Charnel-Last-Call-201x300.png 201w, https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Charnel-Last-Call-768x1148.png 768w, https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Charnel-Last-Call.png 1209w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Charnel-Last-Call-Slipcase.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Charnel-Last-Call-Slipcase-690x1024.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"668\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-20494\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Charnel-Last-Call-Slipcase-690x1024.png 690w, https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Charnel-Last-Call-Slipcase-202x300.png 202w, https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Charnel-Last-Call-Slipcase-768x1139.png 768w, https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Charnel-Last-Call-Slipcase.png 1279w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a limited edition I&#8217;ve long wanted to pick up. Indeed, the lettered edition of this is considered one of the most extravagant and desirable modern limited editions, but that was sold out before I even heard about it, and the last time I saw one for sale it went for something like $6,500. Powers,&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/?p=20489\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Library Addition: Charnel House Limited of Tim Powers Last Call<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":25,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,137,56],"tags":[1973,881,1983,1979,1397,499,2537,536],"class_list":["post-20489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-fantasy","category-horror","tag-books","tag-charnel-house","tag-fantasy","tag-horror","tag-limited-editions","tag-small-press-publishers","tag-tarot-cards","tag-tim-powers","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20489","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=20489"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20489\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22921,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20489\/revisions\/22921"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}