Here’s another dose of The Telewire, with “Slower” off their Airport EP.
Shoegazer Sunday: The Telewire’s “Slower”
September 6th, 2020Library Addition: Traycased Edition of Karl Edward Wagner’s HorrorStory Volume Four
September 3rd, 2020Stumbled across this on eBay and went “Hmm, that’s pretty close to a great deal!”, then made an offer that was accepted.
Wagner, Karl Edward. HorrorStory Volume Four. Underwood-Miller, 1990. First edition hardback, #82 of 300 signed, numbered copies, a Fine copy in a Fine dust jacket and Fine- traycase, with just a touch of blunting at points, a touch of edgewear around spine label, and a trace or two of wear. Omnibus and first hardback editions of Year’s Best Horror Stories X, XI and XII. Signed by Wagner, Harlan Ellison, Dennis Etchison, Michael Kube-McDowell, Richard Laymon, Michael Swanwick, David Drake, and many others. Chalker-Owings (1991), page 441. Supplements the trade edition. Bought off eBay for $65, or less than half the original offering price of $150.
Now I guess I need the limited editions of the other two…
Library Addition: Subterranean Press Signed, Limited Edition of Joe Hill’s Full Throttle
August 31st, 2020Joe Hill’s Full Throttle already had a “signed, limited” edition in the form of a trade edition with a signature page bound in, but this edition is much, much nicer:
Hill, Joe. Full Throttle. Subterranean Press, 2020. First signed, limited edition thus, #43 of 750 numbered copies signed by Hill and artist Dave McKean, a Fine copy in a Fine dust jacket and Fine slipcase. An elaborate, lavishly illustrated edition in a square form-factor. I will have copies available for sale in the next Lame Excuse Books catalog.
Library Additions: Two Borderlands Little Books
August 28th, 2020Two more Borderlands Press “little” books:
Library Additions: Slipcased and Traycased Editions of Joe R. Lansdale’s The Big Blow
August 26th, 2020I essentially have all Joe’s first editions, so now I’m collecting the states of the first edition I didn’t already own…
Both supplement a trade edition inscribed to me by Joe.
Library Additions: Three Signed Chapbooks (Swanwick, Matheson)
August 24th, 2020More chabooks:
Shoegazer 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…