Roy Montgomery is Christchurch, New Zealand guitarist, and “Slow Heroes” is a beautiful, steady-state sort of instrumental shoegaze with a repeated musical motif.
Archive for September, 2024
Shoegazer Sunday: Roy Montgomery’s “Slow Heroes”
Sunday, September 29th, 2024Library Additions: Three Paperbacks
Wednesday, September 18th, 2024Three more very cheap purchases from that storage locker sale:
Not a bad haul for $1.50…
Library Additions: Three Firsts (Asimov, King, Ruff)
Tuesday, September 17th, 2024Three used books, two of which were bought extremely cheaply.
Library Addition: Joe R. Lansdale’s In The Mad Mountains
Thursday, September 12th, 2024Another Tachyon Lansdale first.
Lansdale, Joe R. In The Mad Mountains. Tachyon, 2024. First edition trade paperback original, a Fine copy. Stories inspired by H. P. Lovecraft.
I will have copies of this available in the next Lame Excuse Books catalog.
Library Addition: First of Naomi Novik’s A Deadly Education
Wednesday, September 11th, 2024I’m still working my way through the Temeraire books, but haven’t read any of Naomi Novik’s other works, so I was happy to pick this up.
Novik, Naomi. A Deadly Education. Del Rey, 2020. First edition hardback, a Fine- copy in a Fine- dust jacket with bumped corners. First book in The Scholomance series. Bought from Half Price Books for $11.92.
Library Addition: Tim Powers’ Empty Chamber
Monday, September 9th, 2024Another Charnel House signed/limited Tim Powers first:
Powers, Tim. Empty Chamber. Charnel House, 2024. First edition hardback, #54 of 250 signed, numbered copies, a Fine copy in embossed boards, sans dust jacket, as issued. New novella, elaborately decorated with gold and black Tarot-cardesque illustrations. “Handbound in full Corvon® Rust: An acrylic-coated, latex-saturated paper that imitates oxidized metal in all facets. A metal paper with a rusty finish. Printed on Mohawk 80lb. Superfine.” An attractive production. Bought from the publisher at the usual discount.
I will have a small number of these available in the next Lame Excuse Books catalog.
Library Addition: Jack Vance’s The Man in the Cage
Monday, September 2nd, 2024This is one of the few Jack Vance titles I lacked.
Vance, John Holbrook. The Man in the Cage. Random House, 1960. First edition hardback, a Near Fine copy with slight bumping at head and heel and a few small, mild abrasions to topstain on pageblock, in a Very Good dust jacket with bumping and shallow loss at head and heel, with associated creasing at heel, 3″ scratch to rear panel, slight dust staining to white portions of dust jack, tiny, partial, thin abrasion line down middle of spine, spine possibly very slightly faded, small stamped “49” in a circle next to the (unclipped) price on front dust jacket flap, mild spotting to top and outer edge of rear flap, and mild foxing to blind side of dust jacket. Hewett, A10. Cunningham, 54.a. Levack/Underwood, Fantasms, 29.a. Currey, page 499. Bought from a customer who saw this on my Want List for $35.
