{"id":24507,"date":"2025-02-17T08:00:35","date_gmt":"2025-02-17T14:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/?p=24507"},"modified":"2025-02-17T11:50:04","modified_gmt":"2025-02-17T17:50:04","slug":"library-additions-four-signed-jack-vance-pbos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/?p=24507","title":{"rendered":"Library Additions: Four Signed Jack Vance PBOs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>More signed PBOs from that same eBay seller.<\/p>\n<li>Vance, Jack. <b>The Best of Jack Vance<\/b>. Pocket Books, 1976. First edition paperback original, a Fine copy, signed by Vance. Hewett, A51. Cunningham, B.7.a. Currey, page 497. Supplements a copy of the Taplinger hardback. Bought for $35.\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Vance-signed-PBO-607x1024.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"759\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-24533\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Vance-signed-PBO-607x1024.png 607w, https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Vance-signed-PBO-178x300.png 178w, https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Vance-signed-PBO-768x1296.png 768w, https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Vance-signed-PBO.png 822w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/p>\n<li>Vance, Jack. <b>Marune: Alastor 933<\/b>. Ballantine Books, 1975. First edition paperback original, a Fine- copy with just a tiny trace of wear to front tips, signed by Vance. Hewett, A48. Cunningham, B.56.a, Currey, page 499. Supplements another signed PBO copy (I should probably work a trade for a signed Vance PBO I don&#8217;t have) and an unsigned Underwood-Miller hardback. Bought for $10.50.\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Vance-Marune-PBO-602x1024.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"765\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-24535\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Vance-Marune-PBO-602x1024.png 602w, https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Vance-Marune-PBO-176x300.png 176w, https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Vance-Marune-PBO-768x1306.png 768w, https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Vance-Marune-PBO.png 822w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/p>\n<li>Vance, Jack. <b>Showboat World<\/b>. Pyramid, 1975. First edition paperback original, a Near Fine+ copy with one very faint spine crease, otherwise nicely tight and square, signed by Vance. Supplements two Underwood-Miller hardbacks (both 1\/200 signed, numbered copies, one a PC copy)  and replaces an unsigned PBO. Hewett, A47. Cunningham, B.71.a. Currey, page 500. Bought for $10.50.\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Vance-Showboat-PBO-2025-616x1024.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"748\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-24539\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Vance-Showboat-PBO-2025-616x1024.png 616w, https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Vance-Showboat-PBO-2025-180x300.png 180w, https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Vance-Showboat-PBO-2025-768x1277.png 768w, https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Vance-Showboat-PBO-2025.png 841w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/p>\n<li>Vance, Jack. <b>Slaves of the Klau<\/b> b\/w <b>Big Planet<\/b>. Ace, 1958. First edition paperback original (for <b>Slaves of the Klau<\/b> and this Ace Double, though <b>Big Planet<\/b> was previously published as an Avalon hardback), a Very Good copy with stamps at head, heel and blurb page for <b>Slaves of the Klau<\/b>, with a dime-sized stain and a small, fine-line ballpoint division equation to inside from cover, spine creasing and wear, and wear at points, signed by Vance. First copy I have of <b>Slaves of the Klau<\/b> under that title, though it supplements two copies of the Underwood-Miller <b>Gold and Iron<\/b> (one a trade edition, the other one of 200 signed copies), the Avalon <b>Big Planet<\/b>, and the Underwood-Miller <b>Big Planet<\/b>. Hewett, A9. Cunningham, B.72.a. Currey, page 500. With <b>Slaves of the Klau<\/b>, I believe the only English-language <i>titles<\/i> I lack for Vance are two early 1980s DAW paperbacks, <b>Nopalgarth<\/b> and <b>The Narrow Land<\/b> (though I&#8217;m still looking for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/?p=17157\">a few various states of Vance books<\/a>). Bought for $16.50.\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Vance-Slaves-Klau-PBO-670x1024.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"688\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-24544\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Vance-Slaves-Klau-PBO-670x1024.png 670w, https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Vance-Slaves-Klau-PBO-196x300.png 196w, https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Vance-Slaves-Klau-PBO-768x1174.png 768w, https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Vance-Slaves-Klau-PBO.png 836w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/>\n<\/li>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More signed PBOs from that same eBay seller. Vance, Jack. The Best of Jack Vance. Pocket Books, 1976. First edition paperback original, a Fine copy, signed by Vance. Hewett, A51. Cunningham, B.7.a. Currey, page 497. Supplements a copy of the Taplinger hardback. Bought for $35. Vance, Jack. Marune: Alastor 933. Ballantine Books, 1975. First edition&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/?p=24507\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Library Additions: Four Signed Jack Vance PBOs<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":5,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,5,206],"tags":[1973,87,2275,1970],"class_list":["post-24507","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-science-fiction","category-technology","tag-books","tag-jack-vance","tag-pbo","tag-science-fiction","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24507","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=24507"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24507\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24550,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24507\/revisions\/24550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}