Two more signed Ray Bradbury items, both bought off eBay from different sellers:
Posts Tagged ‘poetry’
Library Additions: Two Signed Ray Bradbury Items
Friday, September 21st, 2018Library Addition: Ray Bradbury’s The R.B., G.K.C., and G.B.S. Forever Orient Express
Saturday, January 6th, 2018Here’s an odd little item I picked up off eBay:
Bradbury, Ray. The R.B., G.K.C., and G.B.S. Forever Orient Express. Joshua Odell Editions, 1994. First edition chapbook original, consisting of a long, skinny (17 1/2″ x 5 1/2″) outer cardstock binding with the four pages of the poem laid in (not stapled or otherwise attached), a Fine- copy with a pinhole through the top of the chapbook and one tiny white scratch to rear, otherwise mint. Reportedly done in an edition of 300 copies. Signed by Bradbury. Poem, longish by Bradbury standards, about Bradbury riding a train with G. K. Chesterton and George Bernard Shaw in the afterlife. The rear cover says that this is an excerpt from the forthcoming Journey to Far Metaphor: Further Essays on Creative Writing, Literature and the Arts, a book that Joshua Odell Editions evidently cancelled. This work would later show up in Bradbury’s collection The Cat’s Pajamas. Bought off eBay for $37.79.
Library Additions: Ursula K. Le Guin Signed Postcard
Tuesday, 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 Signed Ray Bradbury Items
Tuesday, March 15th, 2016Picked up a few more items signed by Ray Bradbury:
I now have three of the Bradbury Christmas broadsheets (which he sent to friends as Christmas gifts/cards), all signed.
Library Additions: Three Clark Ashton Smith Items
Tuesday, January 29th, 2013I managed to pick up three relatively uncommon Clark Ashton Smith items from Heritage Auction’s weekly book auction:
I’d long heard that Roy A. Squires’ small press chapbooks were very well made, and I finally was able to snag a couple of them at a reasonable price.
I bought the Cockcroft because, well, I’m slightly fanatical about collecting bibliographic material, but also because I was hoping it might have some things not in Emperor of Dreams, but that doesn’t appear to be the case. I really would like a better Smith bibliography, as Emperor of Dreams is perhaps the most confusingly organized bibliography I’ve ever seen.
Unlike a complete H. P. Lovecraft collection, a complete Clark Ashton Smith collection is probably within my means, but it’s a pretty long-term goal…
Haiku on Watching a Golden Retriever Chase a Laser Pointer Dot
Monday, August 8th, 2011Generations of
Breeding still could not teach you
Optic principles
Happy Ash Wednesday
Wednesday, February 17th, 2010For those of you who observe same.
In celebration, here’s a link to T. S. Eliot’s poem of the same name. There’s a great stillness in that poem,
I actually like it better than “The Waste Land” (which requires a level of polyglot competence in ancient Latin and Greek (which I doubt I shall ever attain) to fully enjoy), though perhaps not as much as “The Hollow Men” or “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”.