{"id":25704,"date":"2025-12-23T08:00:14","date_gmt":"2025-12-23T14:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/?p=25704"},"modified":"2025-12-22T23:09:21","modified_gmt":"2025-12-23T05:09:21","slug":"library-additions-four-orson-scott-card-signed-firsts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/?p=25704","title":{"rendered":"Library Additions: Four Orson Scott Card Signed Firsts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>All of these were bought at a Half Price Books in McKinney, Texas.<\/p>\n<li>Card, Orson Scott. <b>Ender&#8217;s Shadow<\/b>. Tor, 1999. First edition hardback (trade state; Tor did expensive signed\/leatherbound editions for both this and <b>Shadow of the Hegemon<\/b>), a Fine copy in a Fine, Mylar-protected dust jacket, signed by Card. Bought for $8.49.\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Card-Enders-Shadow-688x1024.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"670\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-25712\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Card-Enders-Shadow-688x1024.png 688w, https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Card-Enders-Shadow-202x300.png 202w, https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Card-Enders-Shadow-768x1142.png 768w, https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Card-Enders-Shadow-1033x1536.png 1033w, https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Card-Enders-Shadow.png 1280w\" 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\/Card-Enders-Shadow-sig-732x1024.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"630\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-25713\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Card-Enders-Shadow-sig-732x1024.png 732w, https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Card-Enders-Shadow-sig-215x300.png 215w, https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Card-Enders-Shadow-sig-768x1074.png 768w, https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Card-Enders-Shadow-sig.png 851w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/p>\n<li>Card, Orson Scott. <b>Shadows in Flight<\/b>. Tor, 2012. First edition hardback, a Fine copy in a Fine, Mylar-protected dust jacket, signed by Card. Bought for $8.49.\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Card-Shadows-Flight-708x1024.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"651\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-25717\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Card-Shadows-Flight-708x1024.png 708w, https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Card-Shadows-Flight-207x300.png 207w, https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Card-Shadows-Flight-768x1111.png 768w, https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Card-Shadows-Flight-1062x1536.png 1062w, https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Card-Shadows-Flight.png 1150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/p>\n<li>Card, Orson Scott. <b>Shadow of the Hegemon<\/b>. Tor, 1999. First edition hardback (trade state), a Fine copy in a Fine, Mylar-protected dust jacket, signed by Card. Bought for $7.49.\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Card-Shadow-Hegemon-666x1024.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"692\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-25724\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Card-Shadow-Hegemon-666x1024.png 666w, https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Card-Shadow-Hegemon-195x300.png 195w, https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Card-Shadow-Hegemon-768x1181.png 768w, https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Card-Shadow-Hegemon-999x1536.png 999w, https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Card-Shadow-Hegemon.png 1228w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/p>\n<li>Card, Orson Scott. <b>Stonefather<\/b>. Subterranean Press, 2008. First separate edition, one of 2,000 signed, hardback copies, a Fine copy in a Fine, Mylar-protected dust jacket. Fantasy novella. Bought for $16.99.\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Card-Stonefather-658x1024.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"700\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-25720\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Card-Stonefather-658x1024.png 658w, https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Card-Stonefather-193x300.png 193w, https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Card-Stonefather-768x1196.png 768w, https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Card-Stonefather-986x1536.png 986w, https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Card-Stonefather.png 1125w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/>\n<\/li>\n<p>I checked out of the Ender books after <b>Xeonocide<\/b>, but I don&#8217;t mind adding signed Fine\/Fine firsts at about 1\/3rd cover price when I chance across them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All of these were bought at a Half Price Books in McKinney, Texas. Card, Orson Scott. Ender&#8217;s Shadow. Tor, 1999. First edition hardback (trade state; Tor did expensive signed\/leatherbound editions for both this and Shadow of the Hegemon), a Fine copy in a Fine, Mylar-protected dust jacket, signed by Card. Bought for $8.49. Card, Orson [&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":[8,137,5],"tags":[1973,1983,1949,800,1970,1491],"class_list":["post-25704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-fantasy","category-science-fiction","tag-books","tag-fantasy","tag-half-price-books","tag-orson-scott-card","tag-science-fiction","tag-signatures"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25704","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=25704"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25704\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25725,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25704\/revisions\/25725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}