{"id":25091,"date":"2025-06-24T13:31:50","date_gmt":"2025-06-24T18:31:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/?p=25091"},"modified":"2026-01-24T16:38:00","modified_gmt":"2026-01-24T22:38:00","slug":"library-addition-signed-koontz-ellison-bryant-pbos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/?p=25091","title":{"rendered":"Library Addition: Signed Koontz, Ellison\/Bryant PBOs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two more signed paperbacks from that same eBay seller. The theme here seems to be &#8220;books I already had plenty of copies of.&#8221; <\/p>\n<li>Bryant, Edward and Harlan Ellison. <b>Phoenix Without Ashes<\/b>. Fawcett, 1975. First edition paperback original, a Fine- copy with a trace of edgewear and spine ever so slightly concave, signed by Bryant and Ellison. Richmond, <b>Fingerprints on the Sky<\/b> page 108. Currey, pages 76 and 178. Supplements <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/?p=24433\">a Near Fine copy signed by Bryant<\/a>, a Fine, unsigned copy, and a Near Fine unsigned copy, so now I have two each under Bryant and Ellison, which is probably more than I need. And I have unsigned copies for sale through <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/PB.html#PB\">Lame Excuse Books<\/a>. Bought off eBay for $19.87.\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Ellison-Phoneix-Ashes-625-606x1024.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"760\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-25109\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Ellison-Phoneix-Ashes-625-606x1024.png 606w, https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Ellison-Phoneix-Ashes-625-178x300.png 178w, https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Ellison-Phoneix-Ashes-625-768x1298.png 768w, https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Ellison-Phoneix-Ashes-625.png 826w\" 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\/Ellison-Phoneix-Ashes-625-sig-668x1024.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"690\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-25113\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Ellison-Phoneix-Ashes-625-sig-668x1024.png 668w, https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Ellison-Phoneix-Ashes-625-sig-196x300.png 196w, https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Ellison-Phoneix-Ashes-625-sig.png 763w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/p>\n<li>Koontz, Dean R. (as Leigh Nichols). <b>Shadowfires<\/b>. Avon, 1987. First edition paperback original, a Near Fine copy with one slight spine crease, start of a faint crease along front spine join, slight bumping at head, trace of wear at corners, and touch of age darkening to very tops of white cover, signed by Koontz: &#8220;Leigh Nichols\/[quotation marks around printed Leigh Nichols name]\/also known as\/Dean R. Koontz.&#8221; One of Koontz&#8217;s many pseudonymous novels. Supplements unsigned copies of the book club hardback and the Dark Harvest trade hardback under Koontz&#8217;s own name. Bought off eBay for $15.59.\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Koontz-Shadowfires-PBO-626x1024.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"736\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-25114\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Koontz-Shadowfires-PBO-626x1024.png 626w, https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Koontz-Shadowfires-PBO-183x300.png 183w, https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Koontz-Shadowfires-PBO-768x1257.png 768w, https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Koontz-Shadowfires-PBO.png 836w\" 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\/Koontz-Shadowfires-PBO-sig-606x1024.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"760\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-25116\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Koontz-Shadowfires-PBO-sig-606x1024.png 606w, https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Koontz-Shadowfires-PBO-sig-178x300.png 178w, https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Koontz-Shadowfires-PBO-sig.png 732w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/>\n<\/li>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two more signed paperbacks from that same eBay seller. The theme here seems to be &#8220;books I already had plenty of copies of.&#8221; Bryant, Edward and Harlan Ellison. Phoenix Without Ashes. Fawcett, 1975. First edition paperback original, a Fine- copy with a trace of edgewear and spine ever so slightly concave, signed by Bryant and [&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":3,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,56,5],"tags":[1973,1611,1192,823,1979,2275,1970,1491],"class_list":["post-25091","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-horror","category-science-fiction","tag-books","tag-dean-r-koontz","tag-ed-bryant","tag-harlan-ellison","tag-horror","tag-pbo","tag-science-fiction","tag-signatures"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25091","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=25091"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25091\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25961,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25091\/revisions\/25961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}