More chabooks:
Library Additions: Three Signed Chapbooks (Swanwick, Matheson)
August 24th, 2020Shoegazer Sunday: The City Gates With Krissy Vanderwoude Cover Slowdive’s “Catch The Breeze”
August 23rd, 2020Enjoy yet another cover of Slowdive’s Catch The Breeze, this one from Canadian shoegazer outfit The City Gates with guest Krissy Vanderwoude:
This is off an all-digital compilation homage of Slowdive covers called Just For A Life, which I’ll have to listen to more of…
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Library Additions: Three Signed Ray Bradbury Firsts
August 17th, 2020The signed Ray Bradbury buying spree continues apace, all bought off eBay:
Library Additions: Two Subterranean Press Limiteds
August 7th, 2020Two post-first limiteds from a Subterranean Press 50% off sale:
National Book Auction’s David Hall Pled Guilty
August 5th, 2020A new National Book Auction/Worth Auctions notice came in via email, and it made me wonder what happened to the legal case against owner David Hall for defrauding a consignee. It turns out he pled guilty back in February:
Local auctioneer David Hall was again in court on Monday to accept a plea for cheating a Tompkins County man out of $227,000.
Hall, a resident of Spencer, plead guilty to second-degree Grand Larceny, a class C felony, for taking items on consignment valued at hundreds of thousands of dollars and not paying out the proceeds to the consigner after the items sold at auction.
The victim in the most recent case, as part of a saga of lawsuits brought against the auctioneer for defrauding customers, consigned thousands of his late brother’s items to Hall’s Freeville-based company Worth Auctions and National Book Auctions back in Feb. 2017.
Hall was indicted on the second-degree grand larceny charge in August. Though there are sales records from auctions throughout the spring and summer of 2017, Hall allegedly only ever paid out the seller $50,000 of the $325,000 he made selling the items. As part of the plea, Hall must pay full restitution in the sum of $227,100 to the victim.
Hall faces a heavy financial penalty, as well as possible jail time. Grand Larceny in the second degree carries a maximum possible period of incarceration of 15 years. Hall is due for sentencing in Tompkins County Court on April 2, at 1 p.m.
In May, Hall was ordered to pay more than $1 million in restitution after it was found that he had defrauded more than 100 consumers since 2015 following a case prosecuted by the New York Attorney General’s Office.
I cannot find any update on sentencing. Maybe that’s another thing delayed due to the Wuhan coronavirus…
Squirrel Ninja Warrior
July 30th, 2020A light, diverting video for your amusement…
Library Additions: Various Subterranean Firsts
July 17th, 2020Here are some Subterranean Press books I picked up at the usual dealer discount over the last few months.
I have all of these for sale through Lame Excuse Books.
Library Addition: Signed, Traycased Edition of Jack Vance’s Minding The Stars
July 15th, 2020Jack Vance’s estate sold off some of his contributor copies recently. I bid on many, but only won this one:
Vance, Jack (Terry Dowling and Jonathan Strahan, editors). Minding the Stars (The Early Jack Vance, Volume Four). Subterranean Press, 2014. First edition hardback, a PC copy of 26 lettered copies, a Fine copy in a Fine dust jacket and a Fine- traycase with one small fingernail-tip sized indention at bottom front, with a provenance card from the Vance estate laid in. The only edition signed by Vance. Bought off eBay for $255.00. The other traycase editions I bid on went for substantial more.
Shoegazer Sunday: The Telewire’s “Head on Straight”
July 12th, 2020Been a long time since I featured something from The Telewire, but “Head on Straioght” is part of my regular Shoegaze rotation.
Library Addition: Two Volume Masters of Science Fiction: Kate Wilhelm
July 11th, 2020Had to scramble to pick this set up:
Wilhelm, Kate (John Pelan, editor). Masters of Science Fiction: Kate Wilhelm (Volumes One and Two). Centipede Press, 2020. First edition hardback, #457 of 500 numbered hardbacks signed by the editor and artists Jim and Ruth Keegan, both Fine copies in Fine dust jackets, with dust jacket protectors, new and unread.
For some reason I’d fallen off the Centipede Press mailing list, so I actually had to purchase these at cover price of $90 for the set. (The indignity!)