{"id":25690,"date":"2025-12-22T08:00:57","date_gmt":"2025-12-22T14:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/?p=25690"},"modified":"2025-12-21T19:22:55","modified_gmt":"2025-12-22T01:22:55","slug":"library-additions-signed-firsts-of-warren-hammonds-kop-and-kop-killer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/?p=25690","title":{"rendered":"Library Additions: Signed Firsts of Warren Hammond&#8217;s KOP and KOP Killer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is an odd one. I had an unsigned first of Warren Hammond&#8217;s <b>KOP<\/b>, but then found a signed copy of <b>KOP<\/b> on my Thanksgiving trip to the DFW metroplex. Then, just before I had a chance to catalog it, I found an inscribed first of <b>KOP Killer<\/b> on my recently completed Houston trip to visit my mother and do some book-shopping. <\/p>\n<li>Hammond, Warren. <b>KOP<\/b>. Tor, 2007. First edition hardback, a Fine copy in a Fine dust jacket, signed by Hammond. Postcyberpunk crime drama. Back when I was still invited to Worldcon etc., someone mentioned that this was a good cyberpunk police procedural. Bought from Half Price Books for $4.99.\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Hammond-Kop-1225-693x1024.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"665\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-25696\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Hammond-Kop-1225-693x1024.png 693w, https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Hammond-Kop-1225-203x300.png 203w, https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Hammond-Kop-1225-768x1136.png 768w, https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Hammond-Kop-1225-1039x1536.png 1039w, https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Hammond-Kop-1225.png 1141w\" 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\/Hammond-Kop-1225-sig-680x1024.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"678\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-25697\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Hammond-Kop-1225-sig-680x1024.png 680w, https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Hammond-Kop-1225-sig-199x300.png 199w, https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Hammond-Kop-1225-sig-768x1156.png 768w, https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Hammond-Kop-1225-sig.png 859w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/p>\n<li>Hammond, Warren. <b>KOP Killer<\/b>. Tor, 2012. First edition hardback, a Fine copy in a Fine- dust jacket with a trace of haze rubbing to rear panel, inscribed by Hammond: &#8220;To Deane,\/Down the\/rabbit hole\/Warren Hammond.&#8221; Postcyberpunk crime drama. Bought from Half Price Books in Pearland for $4.99.\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Hammond-Kop-Killer-697x1024.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"661\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-25698\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Hammond-Kop-Killer-697x1024.png 697w, https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Hammond-Kop-Killer-204x300.png 204w, https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Hammond-Kop-Killer-768x1128.png 768w, https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Hammond-Kop-Killer-1046x1536.png 1046w, https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Hammond-Kop-Killer.png 1148w\" 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\/Hammond-Kop-Killer-sig-629x1024.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"733\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-25699\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Hammond-Kop-Killer-sig-629x1024.png 629w, https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Hammond-Kop-Killer-sig-184x300.png 184w, https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Hammond-Kop-Killer-sig.png 766w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<p>Now I need to track down a signed copy of <b>Ex-KOP<\/b>&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is an odd one. I had an unsigned first of Warren Hammond&#8217;s KOP, but then found a signed copy of KOP on my Thanksgiving trip to the DFW metroplex. Then, just before I had a chance to catalog it, I found an inscribed first of KOP Killer on my recently completed Houston trip to [&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":4,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,5],"tags":[1973,200,1949,1970,1491,882,2799],"class_list":["post-25690","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-science-fiction","tag-books","tag-cyberpunk","tag-half-price-books","tag-science-fiction","tag-signatures","tag-signed","tag-warren-hammond"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25690","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=25690"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25690\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25702,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25690\/revisions\/25702"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}