Been a while since I featured something from The Asteroid Shop, so here’s “On the Rise”:
Previously I think they were an Austin band. but they now seem to be based out of LA.
Shoegazer Sunday: The Asteroid Shop’s “On the Rise”
May 14th, 2017Library Addition: Signed, Limited Edition of Postscripts 30/31: Memoryville Blues
May 11th, 2017I used to subscribe to the hardback edition of Postscripts way back when, and have had three stories in various issues, so I try to pick up any issues I’m missing, and the price was certainly right.
Crowther, Peter and Nick Gevers. Postscripts 30/31: Memoryville Blues. PS Publishing, 2013. First edition hardback, #173 of 200 copies signed by all the contributors, a Fine copy in a Fine dust jacket and a Fine slipcase, new and unread. Bought off eBay for $15, which works out to less than a dollar a signature…
Library Addition: Signed, Ltd. Edition of Margaret Atwood’s The Year of the Flood
May 10th, 2017Not particularly an Atwood fan, but I got it very cheap for a signed, limited edition by a major author:
Atwood, Margaret. The Year of the Flood. Bloomsbury (UK), 2009. First edition hardback, # 653 of 1,000 signed, numbered copies, a Fine copy in decorated boards with silver gilt edges, in a Fine slipcase, sans dust jacket, as issued. Bought for $7.50 at Half Price Books, marked down from $15 with a 50% off coupon. (I suspect that Half Price got a few copies quietly remaindered from the publisher, as they often do for UK books.)
That’s a picture of the front of the slipcase, as there’s no writing on the book itself except on the spine.
According to the ISFDB, this limited edition is a true first (simultaneous with the trade hardback and trade paperback states), and was originally issued at £75, so I got it for less than 1/10th cover price…
Library Additions: Ursula K. Le Guin Signed Postcard
May 9th, 2017Another addition to my science fiction story/poem postcard collection:
Le Guin, Ursula. To Siva the Unmaker. Science Fiction Poetry Association, 1980. First edition postcard, a near Fine copy with a faint dime-sized stain. Signed by Le Guin. Bought for $15 off eBay.
I have two other Le Guin postcards, but this is the only one that’s signed.
Library Additions: Three Harlan Ellison Omnibus Firsts
May 8th, 2017Here are three volumes of the Harlan Ellison Edgeworks series I bought off eBay (along with a fourth, Edgeworks 2, that I already had a signed first of, so the extra will go in the next Lame Excuse Books catalog). I think I have first editions of almost all of these, so this is a matter of “title completeness.”
The four volumes were the only ones to appear out of the projected 20 volume series. All four volumes bought off eBay for $25.
Shoegazer Sunday: Slowdive’s “No Longer Making Time”
May 7th, 2017Slowdive’s new self-titled album
Buy it.
Here’s a live version of “No Longer Making Time,” one of the new tracks:
The studio version is even prettier.
I’m watching new episodes of MST3K and listening to a new Slowdive album. I’ve obviously died and gone to 1990s Heaven…
Library Additions: Two Signed Harlan Ellison Books
May 4th, 2017Two library additions of Harlan Ellison non-fiction books from two different purchases.
Library Addition: True PBO 1st of Star Wars
May 3rd, 2017Picked this up at Half Price Books, and while not along my usual collecting vectors, I knew enough to pick it up.
Foster, Alan Dean (writing as George Lucas). Star Wars: From the Adventures of Luke Skywalker. Ballantine Books, 1976. First edition paperback original (as indicated both by the “First Printing 1976” statement on the copyright page, and by the original Ralph McQuarrie artwork on the cover, which was dropped from all subsequent reprints), a Very Good copy with cover creasing, bottom front corner crease, and general wear.
Although McQuarrie helped design many of the characters, the versions on the cover of this paperback varies wildly from their on-screen counterparts, and every other subsequent piece of official Star Wars art.
Library Additions: Two Signed Tanith Lee First Editions
May 1st, 2017Two signed Tanith Lee books from the same Cold Tonnage Books 50% off sale I got the chapbooks from:
Shoegazer Sunday: The Black Ryder’s “Seventh Moon”
April 30th, 2017The breathy vocals of Aimee Nash, half of Los Angeles-by-way-of-Australia duo The Black Ryder, merit obvious comparison to Mazzy Star’s Hope Sandoval. Here they are with “Seventh Moon,” which reminds me a bit of SPC ECO’s “Tweet Fields at Night” and is about 97% pure beauty by weight.