{"id":24442,"date":"2025-01-30T08:00:47","date_gmt":"2025-01-30T14:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/?p=24442"},"modified":"2026-01-25T14:12:15","modified_gmt":"2026-01-25T20:12:15","slug":"library-additions-three-signed-ellison-and-farmer-pbos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/?p=24442","title":{"rendered":"Library Additions: Three Signed Ellison and Farmer PBOs"},"content":{"rendered":"

Three more purchases from that eBay dealer selling off signed PBOs:<\/p>\n

  • Ellison, Harlan. The Man With Nine Lives<\/b> b\/w A Touch of Infinity<\/b>. Ace Doubles, 1960. First edition paperback original, a Near Fine- copy with spine crease and faint crease along each cover’s spine join (exaggerated here), both sides identically inscribed by Ellison: “For Carter\/Harlan Ellison.” Richmond, Fingerprints on the Sky<\/b> page 107. Currey, page 178. Supplements a slightly less attractive signed copy. Bought for $26.55.\n

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  • Ellison, Harlan. No Doors, No Windows<\/b>. Pyramid, 1975. First edition paperback original, a Near Fine+ copy with slight spine fading, hairline creasing on front and rear join, and slight edgewear, signed by Ellison. Richmond, Fingerprints on the Sky<\/b> page 54. Currey, page 178. Supplements a better but unsigned PBO and the signed, limited Borderlands Press hardback. Bought for $26.\n

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  • Farmer, Philip Farmer. Strange Relations<\/b>. Ballantine Books, 1960. First edition paperback original, (and, unlike many Ballantine SF of the era, there was no simultaneous hardback edition, a Near Fine copy with one wrinkle across middle of spine and a small stray ink mark at head, signed by Farmer. Short story collection, the alien sex anthology before Alien Sex<\/b>. Currey, page 178. Bought for $10 (the opening bid).\n

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    Three more purchases from that eBay dealer selling off signed PBOs: Ellison, Harlan. The Man With Nine Lives b\/w A Touch of Infinity. Ace Doubles, 1960. First edition paperback original, a Near Fine- copy with spine crease and faint crease along each cover’s spine join (exaggerated here), both sides identically inscribed by Ellison: “For Carter\/Harlan […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":2,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,5],"tags":[1973,1877,823,2275,1177,1970,1491],"class_list":["post-24442","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-science-fiction","tag-books","tag-ebay","tag-harlan-ellison","tag-pbo","tag-philip-jose-farmer","tag-science-fiction","tag-signatures"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24442","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=24442"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24442\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25984,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24442\/revisions\/25984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}