{"id":21790,"date":"2023-02-06T13:13:07","date_gmt":"2023-02-06T19:13:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/?p=21790"},"modified":"2023-02-06T13:13:07","modified_gmt":"2023-02-06T19:13:07","slug":"library-additions-seven-pbos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/?p=21790","title":{"rendered":"Library Additions: Seven PBOs"},"content":{"rendered":"

Finishing up recorded the Metroplex PBO buys. All of these came from Half-Price Books. <\/p>\n

  • Pohl, Frederik, and C. M. Kornbluth. The Space Merchants<\/b>. Ballantine Books, 1953. First edition paperback original (no statement of printing, and simultaneous with the hardback edition, as per Currey), a Fine- copy with a touch of edgewear at points, otherwise new and unread. Pringle, SF 100<\/b> 12. Currey, pages 289 and 405. Barron, Anatomy of Wonder 4<\/b> *3-147. Magill, Survey of Science Fiction<\/b> volume 5, pages 2127-2131. Supplements a hardback first inscribed to my by Pohl. Bought for $3.\n

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  • Pohl, Frederik, and Jack Williamson. Starchild<\/b>. Ballantine Books, 1965. First edition paperback original (“”First printing: November 1965″ and 50\u00a2 price, as per Currey), a Fine- copy with just a trace of edgewear at head and heel and a tiny 3\/16” non-breaking indention to front cover, otherwise tight, square and unread. Second book in the Starchild trilogy. Currey, pages 405 and 544. Supplements the SFBC Omnibus The Starchild Trilogy<\/b> inscribed to me by Pohl and Williamson. Bought for $3.\n

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  • Smith, Cordwainer. Space Lords<\/b>. Pyramid, 1965. First edition paperback original, a Fine copy save a trace of foxing to inside covers. Currey, page 315. Bought for $4.00.\n
  • Smith, Cordwainer. The Underpeople<\/b>. Pyramid, 1968. First edition paperback original, a Near Fine copy with one faint spine crease, bookstore stamp to blurb page, and edgewear. Part two of Nostrilia<\/b>. Currey, page 315. Pringle, SF 100<\/b> 46 (for Nostrilia<\/b>). Bought for $1.99.\n

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  • Smith, E. E. “Doc”. The Galaxy Primes<\/b>. Ace Books, 1965. First edition paperback original (no statement of printing and 40\u00a2 price, as per Currey), a Fine copy save for a trace of foxing to inside covers, otherwise tight, square and unread. Lucchetti, Doc: First Galactic Roamer<\/b>, pages 50-51 (“Never issued in hardback.”) Currey, page 456. Bought for $3.\n

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  • Vance, Jack. Showboat World<\/b>. Pyramid, 1975. First edition paperback original (“March 1975” on copyright page and $1.25 cover price, as per Currey), a Near Fine+ copy with one slight spine wrinkle near heel, a few very small, very faint phantom crease on rear cover, and two very faint parallel printing lines across teaser page (looks like an artifact of the printing process). I read this last year and it’s still great fun. Hewett A47a. Cunningham 71a. Currey, page 500. Bought for $2.99.\n
  • Waldrop, Howard. Strange Monsters of the Recent Past<\/b>. Ace, 1991. First edition paperback original thus, adding A Dozen Tough Jobs<\/b> to the contents of All About Strange Monsters of the Recent Past<\/b>, a Fine copy, now inscribed to me by Waldrop. I’ve had a lot of copies of this over the years, but since I already had All About Strange Monsters of the Recent Past<\/b> and A Dozen Tough Jobs<\/b>, I never added a copy to my own library until now. Bought for $3.\n

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    Finishing up recorded the Metroplex PBO buys. All of these came from Half-Price Books. Pohl, Frederik, and C. M. Kornbluth. The Space Merchants. Ballantine Books, 1953. First edition paperback original (no statement of printing, and simultaneous with the hardback edition, as per Currey), a Fine- copy with a touch of edgewear at points, otherwise new […]<\/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":[8,137,5],"tags":[1973,2059,2322,1656,1983,707,170,87,925,2275,1970],"class_list":["post-21790","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-fantasy","category-science-fiction","tag-books","tag-c-m-kornbluth","tag-cordwainer-smith","tag-e-e-doc-smith","tag-fantasy","tag-frederik-pohl","tag-howard-waldrop","tag-jack-vance","tag-jack-williamson","tag-pbo","tag-science-fiction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21790","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=21790"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21790\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21805,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21790\/revisions\/21805"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}