{"id":24530,"date":"2025-02-20T10:05:45","date_gmt":"2025-02-20T16:05:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/?p=24530"},"modified":"2025-11-15T18:22:29","modified_gmt":"2025-11-16T00:22:29","slug":"library-additions-three-sale-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/?p=24530","title":{"rendered":"Library Additions: Three Sale Books"},"content":{"rendered":"

L.W. Currey had a sale, and I found three desirable items at prices I could afford at 50% off.<\/p>\n

  • Cabell, James Branch. Something About Eve<\/b>. Robert McBride & Company, 1927. First edition hardback, limited “Large Paper” edition #655 of 850 signed, numbered copies, a Near Fine copy with bumping at heel, with frontispiece tissue guard intact and attached, sans dust jacket, I think as issued. Jones & Newman, Horror: The 100 Best Books<\/b> 35, where it’s praised by no less than Robert E. Howard (“Cabell writes with a diamond pen.”) Barron, Fantasy Literature<\/b> *3-70. Tymn Zahorsk Boyer, Fantasy Literature: A Core Collections and Reference Guide<\/b> page 59. Locke, A Spectrum of Fantasy<\/b>, page 45 (“The British issue of a book printed in America.”). Bleiler, The Checklist of Science Fiction and Fantasy<\/b> (1978) page 37. Bleiler, Supernatural Fiction<\/b> 327. Supplements a copy of the unsigned edition. Bought for $37.50, marked down from $75.\n

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  • Kuttner, Henry. Ahead of Time<\/b>. Ballantine Books, 1954. First edition hardback, a Near Fine copy with slight wear at head, heel and points, in a Very Good+ dust jacket with two closed 2″ tears to front cover, wear at points, and slight soiling to lighter portions of jacket. Short story collection. Currey, page 291. Bought for $37.50, marked down from $75.\n

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  • Locke, George. Ferret Fantasy’s Christmas Annual For 1972<\/b>. First edition chapbook original, a Fine copy save for penciled inventory number on front cover. Full of obscure bibliographic entries and reprints of period literature. I would like to pick up all of Locke’s reference works. Tymn Schlobin Currey, A Research Guide to Science Fiction Studies<\/b> 31. Burgess, Reference Guide to Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror<\/b> 180. Bought for $12.50, marked down from $25.\n

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    L.W. Currey had a sale, and I found three desirable items at prices I could afford at 50% off. Cabell, James Branch. Something About Eve. Robert McBride & Company, 1927. First edition hardback, limited “Large Paper” edition #655 of 850 signed, numbered copies, a Near Fine copy with bumping at heel, with frontispiece tissue guard… Continue reading Library Additions: Three Sale Books<\/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":3,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,137,56,5],"tags":[1973,1983,1065,932,1979,2748,1064,1970],"class_list":["post-24530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-fantasy","category-horror","category-science-fiction","tag-books","tag-fantasy","tag-george-locke","tag-henry-kuttner","tag-horror","tag-james-branch-cabell","tag-reference-works","tag-science-fiction","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24530","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=24530"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24530\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25640,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24530\/revisions\/25640"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}