{"id":25084,"date":"2025-06-23T08:00:40","date_gmt":"2025-06-23T13:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/?p=25084"},"modified":"2025-06-22T17:56:34","modified_gmt":"2025-06-22T22:56:34","slug":"library-additions-two-signed-robert-bloch-pbos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/?p=25084","title":{"rendered":"Library Additions: Two Signed Robert Bloch PBOs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two more purchases from that eBay seller who&#8217;s been offering signed PBOs:<\/p>\n<li>Bloch, Robert. <b>Fear and Trembling<\/b>. Tor, 1989. First edition paperback original, a Near Fine copy with small chip to top tip of rear cover, small chip to top tip of blurb, slight, non-breaking spine creasing, and slight edgewear, inscribed by Bloch: &#8220;For Ingrid\/ &#8211; best, always.\/Robert Bloch.&#8221; Bleiler, <b>Supernatural Fiction Writers<\/b> page 111. Bought for $16.77.\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Bloch-Fear-Trembling-638x1024.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"722\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-25094\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Bloch-Fear-Trembling-638x1024.png 638w, https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Bloch-Fear-Trembling-187x300.png 187w, https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Bloch-Fear-Trembling-768x1233.png 768w, https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Bloch-Fear-Trembling.png 842w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Bloch-Fear-Trembling-sig-550x1024.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"838\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-25095\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Bloch-Fear-Trembling-sig-550x1024.png 550w, https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Bloch-Fear-Trembling-sig-161x300.png 161w, https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Bloch-Fear-Trembling-sig.png 673w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/p>\n<li>Bloch, Robert. <b>Mysteries of the Worm: All the Cthulhu Mythos Stories of Robert Bloch<\/b>. Kensignton Zebra, 1981. First edition paperback original, a Near Fine copy with a faint crease starting down front spine join and a few thin stray marks to pageblock edges, otherwise tight and square, inscribed by Bloch: &#8220;Warmest\/good wishes\/to\/Dan\/from\/Robert Bloch.&#8221; I don&#8217;t think the sub-title is entirely accurate (or was even then), but otherwise a very solid collection of Bloch&#8217;s Mythos stories. Larson, <b>The Complete Robert Bloch<\/b> page 61. Bleiler, <b>Supernatural Fiction Writers<\/b> page 111. Supplements a less attractive, unsigned copy. Bought for $17.87.\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Bloch-Mysteries-of-the-Worm-2025-626x1024.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"736\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-25099\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Bloch-Mysteries-of-the-Worm-2025-626x1024.png 626w, https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Bloch-Mysteries-of-the-Worm-2025-183x300.png 183w, https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Bloch-Mysteries-of-the-Worm-2025-768x1257.png 768w, https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Bloch-Mysteries-of-the-Worm-2025.png 834w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two more purchases from that eBay seller who&#8217;s been offering signed PBOs: Bloch, Robert. Fear and Trembling. Tor, 1989. First edition paperback original, a Near Fine copy with small chip to top tip of rear cover, small chip to top tip of blurb, slight, non-breaking spine creasing, and slight edgewear, inscribed by Bloch: &#8220;For Ingrid\/ [&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":[8,56],"tags":[1973,22,1877,1979,2275,165,1491],"class_list":["post-25084","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-horror","tag-books","tag-cthulhu","tag-ebay","tag-horror","tag-pbo","tag-robert-bloch","tag-signatures"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25084","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=25084"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25084\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25102,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25084\/revisions\/25102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}