I picked up four books in the Borderlands Press Little Book series:
I will have copies of the Campbell and Grant volumes for sale in the next Lame Excuse Books catalog.
Library Additions: Four Borderland Press Little Books
May 13th, 2020Library Addition: Thrice Signed Copy of The Crystal Ship
May 11th, 2020A UK book club edition, not the true first, and one I only picked up for the signatures:
Silverberg, Robert, editor (Vonda N. McIntyre, Marta Randall, Joan D. Vinge). The Crystal Ship. The Science Fiction Book Club (UK)/Reader’s Union, 1981. Book club reprint, a Fine copy in a Fine dust jacket. Signed by editor Robert Silverberg, and contributors Marta Randall and Joan D. Vinge (each twice, once on the title page and once at their novella). Bought for $9, marked down from $15 at Half Price Books during a coupon sale just before the lockdown came down.
Library Addition: Kim Stanley Robinson’s Stan’s Kitchen
May 8th, 2020When I saw they only did 600 copies of this, I thought “I better pick some up.”
Robinson, Kim Stanley. Stan’s Kitchen. NESFA Press, 2020. First edition hardback, #171 of 600 signed, numbered copies, a Fine copy in a Fine dust jacket. Short story collection.
I’ll have copies of this available in the next Lame Excuse Books catalog.
Library Additions: Signed Books Bought From Dreamhaven
May 7th, 2020Part Two:
Library Additions: Unsigned Books Bought from Dreamheaven
May 4th, 2020I was in Minneapolis in early March (right before everything went into lockdown), and I had a chance to drop by Dreamhaven Books and pick up a few things. Here are the unsigned books I bought.
Shoegazer Sunday: Deserta’s “Hide”
May 3rd, 2020This is from Deserta ‘s new album Black Aura My Sun, which is already making a lot of people’s “Best Shoegaze albums of 2020” list. They remind a little bit of Highspire.
Library Addition: Robert E. Howard’s Skull-Face And Others
April 20th, 2020Picked up another key book at a nice price:
Howard, Robert E. Skull-Face And Others. Arkham House, 1946. First edition hardback, a Near Fine copy with slight bumping at points, slight bend at head and heel, trace of rubbing to center of gold designs along spine, in a Near Fine dust jacket with slight sun-fading to spine, slight wear at points, a 1/16″ closed tear at head, slight wrinkling at top right cover, a touch of dust soiling around just the edge of white rear cover, and blindside foxing to dust jacket; all in all, an extremely nice copy of this key Howard and Arkham House work. Joshi, Sixty Years of Arkham House, 17. Jaffrey, Horrors and Unpleasantries, 19. Nielsen, Arkham House Books, 17. Derleth, Thirty Years of Arkham House, 17. Currey, page 251. Bleiler, Guide to Supernatural Fiction, 852. Locke, Spectrum of Fantasy, page 117. Bleiler, Checklist (1978), page 104. Bleiler, Checklist (1948), page 153. Chalker/Owings (1991), page 23 (“What The Outsider and Others is to Lovecraft, this book is to Howard”). Kemp, Anthem Series, pages 305-6. Barron, Horror Literature, 3-95 (but not in the companion Fantasy Literature volume). One of four “tall” Arkham house volumes, of which I now have two. Bought for $382.46 plus shipping from a fellow Biblio dealer.
Shoegazer Sunday: Static Daydream’s “Drift Away”
April 19th, 2020Here’s a pleasant one off the Saint Marie Records Static Daydream sampler.
Would You Believe William Shatner As Archie Goodwin?
April 17th, 2020Seeing is believing:
That’s the unsold pilot for a 1959 Nero Wolfe TV show, with Shatner as Goodwin and Kurt Kasznar (probably known best, most unfairly, for a role in Land of the Giants) as Wolfe.
I could definitely see myself watching this on METV…
(Hat tip: Don Webb.)
Library Addition: Michael Swanwick’s In Memoriam Gardner Dozois
April 13th, 2020Sometimes things just show up in my mailbox:
Swanwick, Michael and Sean Swanwick. In Memoriam: Gardner Dozois 1947-2018. Dragonstairs Press, 2020. First edition chapbook, #60 of 70 signed, numbered copies, a Fine copy. Came in the mail with a “with the Compliments of the Press” notice laid in. Originally appeared in the Philcon 2018 program book.
I’ll have copies of this available in the next Lame Excuse Books catalog.