{"id":26238,"date":"2026-06-08T08:00:06","date_gmt":"2026-06-08T13:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/?p=26238"},"modified":"2026-06-07T21:32:18","modified_gmt":"2026-06-08T02:32:18","slug":"library-addition-signed-first-of-greg-bears-take-back-the-sky","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/?p=26238","title":{"rendered":"Library Addition: Signed First of Greg Bear&#8217;s Take Back the Sky"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I picked this up because I had the first two books in the <b>War Dogs<\/b> trilogy and I found this signed first for less than cover price.<\/p>\n<p>Bear, Greg. <b>Take back the Sky<\/b>. Orbit, 2016. First edition hardback, a Fine copy in a Fine dust jacket, signed by Bear. Third book in the <b>War Dogs<\/b> trilogy. Bought off a fellow Biblio dealer for $20.66 plus shipping <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Bear-Take-Back-the-Sky-681x1024.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"677\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-26245\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Bear-Take-Back-the-Sky-681x1024.png 681w, https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Bear-Take-Back-the-Sky-199x300.png 199w, https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Bear-Take-Back-the-Sky-768x1155.png 768w, https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Bear-Take-Back-the-Sky-1021x1536.png 1021w, https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Bear-Take-Back-the-Sky.png 1133w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Bear-Take-Back-the-Sky-sig-300x283.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"283\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-26246\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Bear-Take-Back-the-Sky-sig-300x283.png 300w, https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Bear-Take-Back-the-Sky-sig-768x725.png 768w, https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Bear-Take-Back-the-Sky-sig.png 885w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I picked this up because I had the first two books in the War Dogs trilogy and I found this signed first for less than cover price. Bear, Greg. Take back the Sky. Orbit, 2016. First edition hardback, a Fine copy in a Fine dust jacket, signed by Bear. Third book in the War Dogs [&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":10,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,5],"tags":[1973,215,1970,1491],"class_list":["post-26238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-science-fiction","tag-books","tag-greg-bear","tag-science-fiction","tag-signatures"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26238","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=26238"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26238\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26247,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26238\/revisions\/26247"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}