{"id":24864,"date":"2025-04-17T10:22:06","date_gmt":"2025-04-17T15:22:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/?p=24864"},"modified":"2025-04-17T11:00:24","modified_gmt":"2025-04-17T16:00:24","slug":"library-addition-signed-pbo-of-william-tenns-the-square-root-of-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/?p=24864","title":{"rendered":"Library Addition: Signed PBO of William Tenn&#8217;s The Square Root of Man"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>That same eBay seller keeps having some interesting signed PBOs going cheap, including this one:<\/p>\n<p>Tenn, William. <b>The Square Root of Man<\/b>. Ballantine Books, 1968. First edition paperback original (&#8220;First Printing: June, 1968&#8221;), a Very Good copy with spine creasing and lean, crease along front spine join, edgewear, and a bookstore stamp to teaser page, signed by Tenn. Currey, page 278. Bought for the opening bid of $10. <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Tenn-Square-Root-619x1024.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"744\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-24884\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Tenn-Square-Root-619x1024.png 619w, https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Tenn-Square-Root-181x300.png 181w, https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Tenn-Square-Root-768x1270.png 768w, https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Tenn-Square-Root.png 851w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Tenn-Square-Root-sig-300x191.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"191\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-24885\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Tenn-Square-Root-sig-300x191.png 300w, https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Tenn-Square-Root-sig.png 722w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That same eBay seller keeps having some interesting signed PBOs going cheap, including this one: Tenn, William. The Square Root of Man. Ballantine Books, 1968. First edition paperback original (&#8220;First Printing: June, 1968&#8221;), a Very Good copy with spine creasing and lean, crease along front spine join, edgewear, and a bookstore stamp to teaser page, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":1,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,5],"tags":[1973,1877,2275,1970,2262],"class_list":["post-24864","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-science-fiction","tag-books","tag-ebay","tag-pbo","tag-science-fiction","tag-william-tenn"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24864","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=24864"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24864\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24888,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24864\/revisions\/24888"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}