{"id":21639,"date":"2022-12-19T12:36:13","date_gmt":"2022-12-19T18:36:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/?p=21639"},"modified":"2022-12-19T12:36:13","modified_gmt":"2022-12-19T18:36:13","slug":"library-additions-two-robert-e-howard-slipcase-editions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/?p=21639","title":{"rendered":"Library Additions: Two Robert E. Howard Slipcase Editions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two more deluxe slipcased editions of Robert E. Howard books, both bought from a private collector:<\/p>\n<li>Howard, Robert E. <b>The Ultimate Triumph: The Heroic Fantasy of Robert E Howard<\/b>. Wandering Star, 1999. First edition hardback, #0507 of 1,500 slipcased copies, a Fine copy in a Fine dust jacket and a Fine slipcase, still in shrinkwrap, with limitation bookmark. Bought for $125.\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Ultimate-Triumph.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Ultimate-Triumph-695x1024.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"663\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-21646\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Ultimate-Triumph-695x1024.png 695w, https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Ultimate-Triumph-204x300.png 204w, https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Ultimate-Triumph-768x1132.png 768w, https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Ultimate-Triumph.png 1348w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<li>Howard, Robert E. <b>Robert E. Howard&#8217;s Conan of Cimmeria: Volume One (1932-1933)<\/b>. Wandering Star, 2002. First edition hardback, #89 of 100A [sic] numbered slipcased copies signed by artist Mark Schultz, with eight pages of black and white sketches after page 348, a Fine copy in a Fine dust jacket and a Fine slipcase, bought still in shrinkwrap (taken out to verify the state). Bought for $300 (which is all of $30 more than original cover price 20 years ago, and the trade edition typically lists for more).\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Conan-of-Cimmeria-1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Conan-of-Cimmeria-1-708x1024.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"651\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-21647\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Conan-of-Cimmeria-1-708x1024.png 708w, https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Conan-of-Cimmeria-1-207x300.png 207w, https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Conan-of-Cimmeria-1-768x1111.png 768w, https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Conan-of-Cimmeria-1.png 1363w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<p>Oddly enough, I found a trade edition of <b>The Ultimate Triumph<\/b> while book shopping in the Metroplex right before I bought these, so I guess that copy is now superfluous to my needs and will go in the next <a href=\"\/lame.html\">Lame Excuse Books<\/a> catalog, which should be going out via email this Friday. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two more deluxe slipcased editions of Robert E. Howard books, both bought from a private collector: Howard, Robert E. The Ultimate Triumph: The Heroic Fantasy of Robert E Howard. Wandering Star, 1999. First edition hardback, #0507 of 1,500 slipcased copies, a Fine copy in a Fine dust jacket and a Fine slipcase, still in shrinkwrap, [&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":3,"footnotes":""},"categories":[65,137],"tags":[1973,2599,1983,44,499,2585],"class_list":["post-21639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-clueless-dorks","category-fantasy","tag-books","tag-conan","tag-fantasy","tag-robert-e-howard","tag-small-press-publishers","tag-wandering-star"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21639","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=21639"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21639\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21651,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21639\/revisions\/21651"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}