{"id":25831,"date":"2026-01-09T08:00:25","date_gmt":"2026-01-09T14:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/?p=25831"},"modified":"2026-01-08T20:53:33","modified_gmt":"2026-01-09T02:53:33","slug":"library-additions-lansdale-sterling-firsts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/?p=25831","title":{"rendered":"Library Additions: Lansdale, Sterling Firsts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two more Houston Half Price Books finds, the only connection being two Texas authors I know personally. <\/p>\n<li>Lansdale, Joe R. <b>Freezer Burn<\/b>. Mysterious Press, 1999. Advanced Reading Copy, trade paperback format, of the trade hardback first edition, a Fine- copy, with slight wear at corners. Supplements the Crossroad Press signed, limited, true first edition. Bought for $9.99.\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Lansdale-Freezer-Burn-ARC-678x1024.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"680\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-25842\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Lansdale-Freezer-Burn-ARC-678x1024.png 678w, https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Lansdale-Freezer-Burn-ARC-199x300.png 199w, https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Lansdale-Freezer-Burn-ARC-768x1159.png 768w, https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Lansdale-Freezer-Burn-ARC-1017x1536.png 1017w, https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Lansdale-Freezer-Burn-ARC.png 1189w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/p>\n<li>Sterling, Bruce. <b>Schismatrix Plus<\/b>. SFBC, 2006. First hardback edition, a Fine copy in a Fine dust jacket. Part of SFBC&#8217;s 50th Anniversary Collection. Honestly, I wasn&#8217;t even aware they had done this until I chanced across it. Supplements the trade paperback original and the hardback firsts of <b>Schismatrix<\/b> and <b>Crystal Express<\/b>. Bought for $4.99.\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Sterling-Schismatrix-Plus-SFBC-HB-689x1024.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"669\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-25846\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Sterling-Schismatrix-Plus-SFBC-HB-689x1024.png 689w, https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Sterling-Schismatrix-Plus-SFBC-HB-202x300.png 202w, https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Sterling-Schismatrix-Plus-SFBC-HB-768x1141.png 768w, https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Sterling-Schismatrix-Plus-SFBC-HB-1034x1536.png 1034w, https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Sterling-Schismatrix-Plus-SFBC-HB.png 1141w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/p>\n<\/li>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two more Houston Half Price Books finds, the only connection being two Texas authors I know personally. Lansdale, Joe R. Freezer Burn. Mysterious Press, 1999. Advanced Reading Copy, trade paperback format, of the trade hardback first edition, a Fine- copy, with slight wear at corners. Supplements the Crossroad Press signed, limited, true first edition. Bought [&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":15,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,56,5],"tags":[2309,1973,18,200,1949,1979,46,2167,409,1970,2115,251],"class_list":["post-25831","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-horror","category-science-fiction","tag-arc","tag-books","tag-bruce-sterling","tag-cyberpunk","tag-half-price-books","tag-horror","tag-joe-r-lansdale","tag-mysterious-press","tag-mystery","tag-science-fiction","tag-sfbc","tag-texas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25831","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=25831"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25831\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25847,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25831\/revisions\/25847"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}