{"id":25643,"date":"2025-12-03T12:12:38","date_gmt":"2025-12-03T18:12:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/?p=25643"},"modified":"2025-12-03T12:12:38","modified_gmt":"2025-12-03T18:12:38","slug":"library-addition-signed-james-a-michener-first","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/?p=25643","title":{"rendered":"Library Addition: Signed James A. Michener First"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was in the DFW Metroplex over Thanksgiving week, and did a lot of book shopping at various Half Price Books. I found quite a few things, some for myself, some for the already-in-progress <a href=\"lame.html\/\">Lame Excuse Books catalog<\/a>. Here&#8217;s one outside what I usually collect, but a cheap signed edition from a notable author is usually a pretty good thing to pick up. <\/p>\n<p>Michener, James A. <b>The Eagle and the Raven<\/b>. State House Press, 1990. First edition hardback, an unnumbered copy of 350 numbered copies signed by Michener and illustrator Charles Shaw, a Fine copy in a Fine Mylar-protected dust jacket. Novel of the clash between Sam Houston and Santa Ana, and unlike most Michener works, this one comes in at a sprightly 210 pages. Bought at a Half Price Books for $9.99.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Michener-Eagle-Raven-672x1024.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"686\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-25647\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Michener-Eagle-Raven-672x1024.png 672w, https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Michener-Eagle-Raven-197x300.png 197w, https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Michener-Eagle-Raven-768x1171.png 768w, https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Michener-Eagle-Raven-1007x1536.png 1007w, https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Michener-Eagle-Raven.png 1147w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Michener-Eagle-Raven-sig-227x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"227\" height=\"300\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-25648\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Michener-Eagle-Raven-sig-227x300.png 227w, https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Michener-Eagle-Raven-sig.png 722w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 227px) 100vw, 227px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was in the DFW Metroplex over Thanksgiving week, and did a lot of book shopping at various Half Price Books. I found quite a few things, some for myself, some for the already-in-progress Lame Excuse Books catalog. Here&#8217;s one outside what I usually collect, but a cheap signed edition from a notable author is [&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":11,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[1973,1949,624,2796,1491,251],"class_list":["post-25643","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","tag-books","tag-half-price-books","tag-history","tag-james-a-michener","tag-signatures","tag-texas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25643","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=25643"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25643\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25650,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25643\/revisions\/25650"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}