{"id":23150,"date":"2024-02-26T11:10:25","date_gmt":"2024-02-26T17:10:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/?p=23150"},"modified":"2025-01-16T17:36:42","modified_gmt":"2025-01-16T23:36:42","slug":"library-additions-four-john-crowley-firsts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/?p=23150","title":{"rendered":"Library Additions: Four John Crowley Firsts"},"content":{"rendered":"

These four books were offered as The John Crowley Conway Miscellany set on Kickstarter. Each has a different trim size. <\/p>\n

  • Crowley, John. Seventy-Nine Dreams<\/b>. Ninpin Press, 2024. First edition trade paperback original, a Fine copy. A dream journal. 5″ tall by 5″ wide.\n
  • Crowley, John. The Sixties: A Forged Diary<\/b>. Ninpin Press, 2024. First edition trade paperback original, a Fine copy. A reconstruction of Crowley’s life in New York City in the 60s. “After taking a job with a photography studio, he soon crosses paths with the likes of Andy Warhol and Richard Avedon, Claudia Cardinale and Raquel Welch.” 8″ tall by 6″ wide.\n
  • Crowley, John. Two Chapters in a Family Chronicle<\/b>. Ninpin Press, 2024. First edition trade paperback original, a Fine copy. Two stories, “Percy and Lulu Go to Vermont” and “Poker Night at the Elks Club 1938” that “link three generations of John Crowley\u2019s family.” 7″ tall by 5″ wide.\n
  • Crowley, John. Seventy-Four Dreams<\/b>. Ninpin Press, 2024. First edition trade paperback original, a Fine copy, with signature plate by Crowley laid in (only one per set). Two speeches, “Practicing the Arts of Peace and “The Uses of Allegory.” 6″ tall by 4″ wide.\n

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    The four books together can be laid out to form a single image. Because the books are too large to fit on my scanner, I have copied the image from the Kickstarter page. <\/p>\n

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    I will have a small number of sets of these (with the signature plate) in the next Lame Excuse Books catalog.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    These four books were offered as The John Crowley Conway Miscellany set on Kickstarter. Each has a different trim size. Crowley, John. Seventy-Nine Dreams. Ninpin Press, 2024. First edition trade paperback original, a Fine copy. A dream journal. 5″ tall by 5″ wide. Crowley, John. The Sixties: A Forged Diary. Ninpin Press, 2024. First edition […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":7,"footnotes":""},"categories":[157,137,7],"tags":[1973,1983,274,1989,1970,1491,499],"class_list":["post-23150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-basketball","category-fantasy","category-food","tag-books","tag-fantasy","tag-john-crowley","tag-kickstarter","tag-science-fiction","tag-signatures","tag-small-press-publishers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23150","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=23150"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23150\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24353,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23150\/revisions\/24353"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}