{"id":22977,"date":"2024-01-10T11:54:52","date_gmt":"2024-01-10T17:54:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/?p=22977"},"modified":"2026-05-17T20:04:39","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T01:04:39","slug":"library-additions-six-signed-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/?p=22977","title":{"rendered":"Library Additions: Six Signed Books"},"content":{"rendered":"

All these were found at various Half Price Books stores in the Dallas Metroplex.<\/p>\n

  • Aldrin, Buzz, and John Barnes. Encounter With Tiber<\/b>. Warner Books, 1996. First edition hardback, a Fine copy in a Fine dust jacket, inscribed by Aldrin: “To Michael,\/Buzz Aldrin.” Pretty sure Barnes did the overwhelming majority of the writing, but it’s pretty cool to own a book signed by a guy who walked on the moon. Bought for $7.99.\n

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  • Block, Lawrence. The Scoreless Thai<\/b>. Subterranean Press, 2000. First hardback edition (previously published in a 1970s PBO), a trade edition, a Fine copy in a Fine dust jacket, signed by Block. Novella. Bought for $10, 1\/3rd of publication price, and the trade edition wasn’t issued signed by Block.\n

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  • Block, Lawrence. Tanner’s Tiger<\/b>. Subterranean Press, 2001. First hardback edition (previously published as a 1968 paperback original), a Fine copy in a Fine dust jacket, signed by Block. Tanner novel. Bought for $10, 1\/3rd of publication price, and the trade edition wasn’t issued signed by Block.\n
  • Chabon, Michael. Summerland<\/b>. Hyperion, 2002. First edition hardback, a Fine- copy in a Fine- dust jacket with slight bumping at head and heel, signed by Chabon. Bought for $9.99, which, oddly enough, seems to be about market. After he won the Hugo and Nebula for the excellent The Yiddish Policeman’s Union<\/b>, I though Chabon books were going to head steadily upward in value; the exact opposite seems to have happened. It looks like every single one of Chabon’s novels except The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay<\/b> can be found in signed first edition hardbacks at or less than cover price. I can’t figure it out, as all three of the Chabon books I’ve read (The Yiddish Policeman’s Union<\/b>, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay<\/b>, and Gentlemen of the Road<\/b>) were excellent.\n
  • Etchison, Dennis. Red Dreams<\/b>. Scream\/Press, 1984. First edition hardback, #192 of 250 numbered hardbacks signed by Etichson and artist J.K. Potter, a Fine copy in a Fine, Mylar-protected dust jacket and a Fine- slipcase with a trace of haze rubbing, and additionally signed by Etchison. The second short story collection by this acclaimed horror writer. The third publication of Scream\/Press. Chalker\/Owings, page 335. Supplements a trade copy. Bought for $30.\n

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    (Surface wear is on the dust jacket protector.) <\/p>\n

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  • Fowler, Karen Joy. Booth<\/b>. Putnam, 2022. First edition hardback, a Fine copy in a Fine- dust jacket with just a trace of edgewear, the signed publisher’s variant with a “Signed Copy” sticker on the cover and a page signed by Fowler bound in. Novel of the theatrical Booth family (including presidential assassin John Wilkes Booth) in early 19th century America. Bought for $13.99.\n

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    All these were found at various Half Price Books stores in the Dallas Metroplex. Aldrin, Buzz, and John Barnes. Encounter With Tiber. Warner Books, 1996. First edition hardback, a Fine copy in a Fine dust jacket, inscribed by Aldrin: “To Michael,\/Buzz Aldrin.” Pretty sure Barnes did the overwhelming majority of the writing, but it’s pretty […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":10,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,137,56,5],"tags":[1973,2826,906,1983,1979,2524,2827,756,409,1970,2701,1491,794],"class_list":["post-22977","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-fantasy","category-horror","category-science-fiction","tag-books","tag-buzz-aldrin","tag-dennis-etchison","tag-fantasy","tag-horror","tag-karen-joy-fowler","tag-lawrence-block","tag-michael-chabon","tag-mystery","tag-science-fiction","tag-scream-press","tag-signatures","tag-subterranean-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22977","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=22977"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22977\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23013,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22977\/revisions\/23013"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}