{"id":25193,"date":"2025-07-23T10:39:20","date_gmt":"2025-07-23T15:39:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/?p=25193"},"modified":"2025-07-23T10:39:20","modified_gmt":"2025-07-23T15:39:20","slug":"library-addition-easton-press-limited-of-dan-simmons-crook-factory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/?p=25193","title":{"rendered":"Library Addition: Easton Press Limited of Dan Simmons&#8217; Crook Factory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This was simply a case of browsing eBay and going &#8220;Well, that&#8217;s pretty damn cheap.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Simmons, Dan. <b>The Crook Factory<\/b>. Easton Press, 1999. First edition hardback thus, #264 of 1,050 copies, a Fine leatherbound copy, sans dust jacket, as issued, with &#8220;a note about THE CROOK FACTORY and the author DAN SIMMONS&#8221; and Certification of Authenticity laid in. Supplements an inscribed first edition. Bought off eBay for $20. <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Simmons-Crook-Factory-Easton-652x1024.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"707\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-25200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Simmons-Crook-Factory-Easton-652x1024.png 652w, https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Simmons-Crook-Factory-Easton-191x300.png 191w, https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Simmons-Crook-Factory-Easton-768x1206.png 768w, https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Simmons-Crook-Factory-Easton-978x1536.png 978w, https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Simmons-Crook-Factory-Easton.png 1212w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This was simply a case of browsing eBay and going &#8220;Well, that&#8217;s pretty damn cheap.&#8221; Simmons, Dan. The Crook Factory. Easton Press, 1999. First edition hardback thus, #264 of 1,050 copies, a Fine leatherbound copy, sans dust jacket, as issued, with &#8220;a note about THE CROOK FACTORY and the author DAN SIMMONS&#8221; and Certification of [&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":[8,5],"tags":[1973,277,2454,1877,1397,1970],"class_list":["post-25193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-science-fiction","tag-books","tag-dan-simmons","tag-easton-press","tag-ebay","tag-limited-editions","tag-science-fiction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25193","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=25193"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25193\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25201,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25193\/revisions\/25201"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}