{"id":25229,"date":"2025-07-31T08:00:02","date_gmt":"2025-07-31T13:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/?p=25229"},"modified":"2025-12-05T15:14:39","modified_gmt":"2025-12-05T21:14:39","slug":"library-addition-signed-first-of-thomas-dischs-the-businessman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/?p=25229","title":{"rendered":"Library Addition: Signed First of Thomas Disch&#8217;s The Businessman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Another Kathryn Cramer purchase:<\/p>\n<p>Disch, Thomas M. <b>The Businessman: A Tale of Terror<\/b>. Harper &#038; Row, 1984. First edition hardback, a Fine copy in a Fine dust jacket, signed by Disch. Cawthorn and Moorcock, <b>Fantasy: The Hundred Best Novels<\/b> 98. Pringle, <b>Modern Fantasy: The Hundred Best Novels<\/b> 88. Supplements an unsigned copy. Bought for $20. <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Disch-Businessman-2025-699x1024.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"659\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-25253\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Disch-Businessman-2025-699x1024.png 699w, https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Disch-Businessman-2025-205x300.png 205w, https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Disch-Businessman-2025-768x1124.png 768w, https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Disch-Businessman-2025-1049x1536.png 1049w, https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Disch-Businessman-2025.png 1157w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Disch-Businessman-2025-sig-802x1024.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"575\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-25254\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Disch-Businessman-2025-sig-802x1024.png 802w, https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Disch-Businessman-2025-sig-235x300.png 235w, https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Disch-Businessman-2025-sig.png 951w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another Kathryn Cramer purchase: Disch, Thomas M. The Businessman: A Tale of Terror. Harper &#038; Row, 1984. First edition hardback, a Fine copy in a Fine dust jacket, signed by Disch. Cawthorn and Moorcock, Fantasy: The Hundred Best Novels 98. Pringle, Modern Fantasy: The Hundred Best Novels 88. Supplements an unsigned copy. Bought for $20.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":2,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,56],"tags":[1973,1979,2768,1491,761],"class_list":["post-25229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-horror","tag-books","tag-horror","tag-kathryn-cramer","tag-signatures","tag-thomas-m-disch"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25229","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=25229"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25229\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25664,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25229\/revisions\/25664"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}