{"id":25495,"date":"2025-10-07T08:00:30","date_gmt":"2025-10-07T13:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/?p=25495"},"modified":"2026-01-25T18:27:57","modified_gmt":"2026-01-26T00:27:57","slug":"library-additions-niven-and-resnick-pbos-one-signed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/?p=25495","title":{"rendered":"Library Additions: Niven and Resnick PBOs, One Signed"},"content":{"rendered":"

Two more purchases from that ongoing library sell-off on Facebook:<\/p>\n

  • Niven, Larry. Ringworld<\/b>. Ballantine Books, 1970. First edition paperback original (“First Printing: October 1970,” as per Currey), a Near Fine copy with just a start of spine creasing, traces of soiling to rear cover, and trace of wear at head and heel and tips, otherwise a tight, square, beautiful copy. Hugo and Nebula winner for Best Novel. Currey, page 387. Pringle, Ultimate Guide to Science Fiction<\/b>, page 262 (“***”). Barron, Anatomy of Wonder 4<\/b> *4-316. Magill, Survey of Science Fiction Literature<\/b>, pages 1799-1804. The true first edition and the one in which Niven infamously had the earth rotating the wrong way. Supplements a copy of the Gollancz hardback first and replaces a less attractive PBO copy<\/a> I’ll offer up in the next Lame Excuse Books catalog (probably November). Bought for $5.\n

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  • Renick, Mike. Eros Descending<\/b>. Signet, 1985. First edition paperback original (“First Printing, December, 1985\/1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9”), a Near Fine- copy with spine crease just beginning, start of a hairline crease along front spine join, a dozen or so very small rubs to bottom half of front cover, bookstore stamp to blurb page, and a trace of edgewear, otherwise a tight, square copy, signed by Resnick. Third book in the Tales of the Velvet Comet. Bought for $5.\n

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    Two more purchases from that ongoing library sell-off on Facebook: Niven, Larry. Ringworld. Ballantine Books, 1970. First edition paperback original (“First Printing: October 1970,” as per Currey), a Near Fine copy with just a start of spine creasing, traces of soiling to rear cover, and trace of wear at head and heel and tips, otherwise […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":16,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,5],"tags":[1973,1279,542,1075,1063,221,2275,1970,1491],"class_list":["post-25495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-science-fiction","tag-books","tag-facebook","tag-hugo-award","tag-larry-niven","tag-mike-resnick","tag-nebula","tag-pbo","tag-science-fiction","tag-signatures"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25495","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=25495"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25495\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26006,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25495\/revisions\/26006"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}