{"id":23888,"date":"2024-10-29T08:01:15","date_gmt":"2024-10-29T13:01:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/?p=23888"},"modified":"2024-10-29T08:09:51","modified_gmt":"2024-10-29T13:09:51","slug":"library-addition-signed-limited-first-of-dan-simmons-carrion-comfort","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/?p=23888","title":{"rendered":"Library Addition: Signed, Limited First of Dan Simmons’ Carrion Comfort"},"content":{"rendered":"

The third (and thus far final) book from that seller of Dark Harvest books on eBay.<\/p>\n

Simmons, Dan. Carrion Comfort<\/b>. Dark Harvest, 1989. First edition hardback, #303 of 400 signed, numbered copies, a Fine copy in a Fine- dust jacket a few touches of edgewear and a trace of rubbing to front spine join in a Fine slipcase. His celebrated novel of psychic vampirism. Winner of the Bram Stoker Award for Best Novel. Chalker\/Owings, page 121. Bought off eBay for $75.<\/p>\n

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Simmons published this, Hyperion<\/b> and the underrated Phases of Gravity<\/b> the same year, quite an impressive literary feat (though I’d already been following him from Song of Kali<\/b>), and briefly enjoyed some “The Next Stephen King” collecting hype. But overproduction of some of Simmons work (particularly from Lord John Press) quickly proved that the market for Dan Simmons limited was not<\/i> as large as the market for Stephen King limiteds. But Simmons still produces some fine work up to this day…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The third (and thus far final) book from that seller of Dark Harvest books on eBay. Simmons, Dan. Carrion Comfort. Dark Harvest, 1989. First edition hardback, #303 of 400 signed, numbered copies, a Fine copy in a Fine- dust jacket a few touches of edgewear and a trace of rubbing to front spine join in […]<\/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":[8,56],"tags":[1973,277,2312,1979,499,1395],"class_list":["post-23888","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-horror","tag-books","tag-dan-simmons","tag-dark-harvest","tag-horror","tag-small-press-publishers","tag-vampires"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23888","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=23888"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23888\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23910,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23888\/revisions\/23910"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}