{"id":24994,"date":"2025-05-28T08:00:40","date_gmt":"2025-05-28T13:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/?p=24994"},"modified":"2025-05-28T00:18:33","modified_gmt":"2025-05-28T05:18:33","slug":"library-addition-two-half-price-books-purchases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/?p=24994","title":{"rendered":"Library Addition: Two Half Price Books Purchases"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two very different books bought at Half Price Books.<\/p>\n<li>Donoghue, Emma. <b>Room<\/b>. Little, Brown, 2010. First edition hardback (&#8220;FIRST EDITION: SEPTEMBER 2010&#8221; and &#8220;10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1&#8221; numberline on copyright page), a Fine- copy with slight bend at head and heel and slight blunting of tips in a Fine, Mylar-protected dust jacket. Mainstream novel of a mother raising a son in a single room while trying to hide from him the fact she&#8217;s a prisoner there. Basis of the 2015 film of the same name. Bought for $5.84.\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Donoghue-Room-667x1024.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"691\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-25015\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Donoghue-Room-667x1024.png 667w, https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Donoghue-Room-195x300.png 195w, https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Donoghue-Room-768x1179.png 768w, https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Donoghue-Room.png 1234w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/p>\n<li>Houlihan, John. <b>Mon Dieu Cthulhu! The d&#8217;Bois Escapades: Volume One<\/b>. No Publisher, 2018. Presumed first edition trade paperback original (no additional printings listed, but it looks like a POD book), a Fine copy. Contains two Napoleonic Wars Cthulhu Mythos novellas, &#8220;The Crystal Void&#8221; (&#8220;first illustrated edition&#8221;) and &#8220;Feast of the Dead,&#8221; for which this appears to be the first publication anywhere. I just found the concept interesting. Bought for $4.94.\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Mon-Dieu-Cthulhu-686x1024.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"672\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-25018\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Mon-Dieu-Cthulhu-686x1024.png 686w, https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Mon-Dieu-Cthulhu-201x300.png 201w, https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Mon-Dieu-Cthulhu-768x1146.png 768w, https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Mon-Dieu-Cthulhu.png 1207w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/>\n<\/li>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two very different books bought at Half Price Books. Donoghue, Emma. Room. Little, Brown, 2010. First edition hardback (&#8220;FIRST EDITION: SEPTEMBER 2010&#8221; and &#8220;10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1&#8221; numberline on copyright page), a Fine- copy with slight bend at head and heel and slight blunting of tips in a Fine, [&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":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,56],"tags":[1973,22,2762,1979,2763],"class_list":["post-24994","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-horror","tag-books","tag-cthulhu","tag-emma-donoghue","tag-horror","tag-john-houlihan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24994","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=24994"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24994\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25019,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24994\/revisions\/25019"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}