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Library Addition: Signed Limited Edition of New Worlds #1

Thursday, June 16th, 2022

I should point out that this is the new, new, new, new, new incarnation of New Worlds, this time as a hardback anthology series.

Gevers, Nick, and Peter Crowther, editors. New Worlds Issue #1. PS Publishing, 2021 (i.e., 2022). First edition hardback, #49 of 200 copies, a Fine copy in decorated boards and a Fine dust jacket, and a Fine embossed slipcase. Latest resurrection of this venerable UK fiction title, most famous for Michael Moorcock’s New Wave editorship in the 1960s, and Moorcock contributes a story (and signature) here, as do Alan Moore, Michael Swanwick, Ken MacLeod, James Lovegrove, Ian Watson, Ian R. MacLeod, etc. The trade paperback version came out last year, but this hardback edition is already out of print. Bought from the publisher at the usual discount.

I will have two copies of this to sell in the next Lame Excuse Books catalog (currently in progress).

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Library Additions: Six Random Firsts

Tuesday, August 7th, 2018

Still more books from the Cold Tonnage 40% off sale:

  • (Aldiss, Brian)(Frank Hatherly, editor, with Margaret Aldiss and Malcom Edwards). A is for Brian: A 65th Birthday Present. Avernus, 1990. First edition trade paperback original, a Fine- copy with very slight wear at points. Signed by Aldiss. A festschrift put together by Aldiss’ friends, with tributes by J.G. Ballard, Michael Moorcock, Robert Silverberg, etc. Bought for £18 after discount. I also have festschrifts for John Clute (Polder) and Moorcock (Moorcock@60).

  • Gevers, Nick, editor. Postscripts 34/35: Breakout. PS Publishing, 2015. First edition hardback, a Fine copy in a Fine dust jacket. Volume in the long-running anthology series. Includes two posthumous Steven Utley collaborations (among other works). Bought for £12 after discount.
  • Leiber, Fritz. The Pale Brown Thing. Swan River Press, 2016. First edition hardback, one of only 350 hardback copies, a Fine copy in decorated boards and a Fine dust jacket, with a postcard reprinting the cover of F&SF the story originally appeared in laid in. In addition to the story, there are extensive notes about how Leiber expanded the story into his novel Our Lady of Darkness. Bought for £16.80 after discount. There were plenty of scans of the dust jacket on the Internet, but none of the book itself, so the scan below shows the cover of the book itself (which, oddly enough, has no printing on the spine).

  • MacLeod, Ian R. Hector Douglas Makes a Sale. PS Publishing, 2011. First edition chapbook original, a Fine copy. Signed by MacLeod. Freebie given away at the 2011 Eastercon to promote MacLeod’s forthcoming collection Wake Up and Dream. Bought for £3 after discount.

  • Russell, Eric Frank. Dark Tides. Bristol Press Dobson, 1962. First edition hardback, a Very Good+ copy with two Australian ownership stamps (one for “McGill’s Agency Book Department;” possibly a literary agent’s copy) along with the number “2456” written in ink on the FFE and the same number written in ink on the half-title page, in a Near Fine- price-clipped dust jacket with wear at head, heel and points. Short story collection. Currey (1979), page 423. Bought for £30 after discount.

  • Reynolds, Alastair. Pushing Ice. Gollancz, 2005. First edition hardback, a Fine copy in a Fine dust jacket. One of the few Reynolds novels I didn’t manage to snag when it first came out. Bought for £24 after discount.

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    Library Additons: Two Signed Lettered Hardbacks of Postscripts

    Wednesday, December 6th, 2017

    In addition to having stories there, I used to have a subsciption to the signed hardback version of Postscripts magazine Back In The Day. Now I pick up individual issues to round out my collection when I find them cheap. Like these two, which I bought for $25 each from Camelot Books:

  • Crowther, Pete and Nick Gevers. Postscripts 18: This Is The Summer of Love. PS Publishing, 2009. First edition hardback, Letter D of 26 signed, lettered copies, a Fine copy in decorated boards, sans dust jacket, as issued.
  • Crowther, Pete and Nick Gevers. Postscripts 19: Enemy of the Good. PS Publishing, 2009. First edition hardback, Letter D of 26 signed, lettered copies, a Fine copy in decorated boards, sans dust jacket, as issued.

    • Unlike my contributor copy of Postscripts 24/25: The New And Perfect Man, these lettered copies did not come in a traycase, and indeed are not readily distinguishable from the regular signed/numbered editions

    I now have signed, numbered copies of all of Postscripts 1-19, 24/25, and 30/31. Which means I’m missing 20/21, 22/23, 26/27, 28/29, 32/33, 34/35, and 36/37.

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    The New and Perfect Man (Postscripts 24/25) is Out

    Thursday, June 16th, 2011

    Including my story “The Dog Parade.”

    Here’s the traycase the signed, limited edition comes in:

    And here’s the book itself nestled snugly inside that traycase:

    It was actually an unusually long journey for the anthology to be published, as one of the sets of signature sheets got lost in transit, which set back the publication timeline considerably.

    Contents of Postscripts #24/25: The New and Perfect Man, edited by Peter Crowther & Nick Gevers, are as follows:

  • THE NEW AND PERFECT MAN — Carol Emshwiller (cover story, illustrated by her husband, the late, great Ed Emshwiller)
  • FRIGHTENED ANGELS — Jeremy Adam Smith
  • TO SEE INFINITY BARE — Rudy Rucker & Paul Di Filippo
  • ELECTRIC BREAKFAST — Paul Meloy
  • A CRACK IN THE CEILING OF THE WORLD — Michael Kelly
  • THE DOG PARADE — Lawrence Person
  • THE LAST HERETIC — Darrell Schweitzer
  • THE STORY OF PRINCESS ROSEBUD — Alan Peter Ryan
  • THE INN OF DISTANT SORROWS — Thomas Tessier
  • A MOMENT AT THE HOUSE — T.M. Wright
  • WHISPER — Richard Calder
  • THE PRIMATE SANCTUARY — Quentin S. Crisp
  • CALL ME — Bob Strother
  • SO LOVED — Matthew Hughes
  • CONFESSIONS OF A TYRANT’S DOUBLE — Gregory Norminton
  • EUPHORIA — Robert Reed
  • TRUE BLUE — Darrell Schweitzer
  • CHRIST THE PAINTER — Allen Ashley
  • YOUR GOLDEN HANDS — Andrew Hook
  • THE GHOST OF LILLIAN BLISS — Rio Youers
  • ASHES IN THE WATER — Joel Lane and Mat Joiner
  • CHILD OF EVIL STARS — Anne-Sylvie Homassel
  • HER FINGERS LIKE WHIPS, HER EYES LIKE RAZORS — Jay Lake
  • DR. BLACK, THOUGHTS & PATENTS — Brendan Connell
  • THE ROOM BEYOND — Ramsey Campbell
  • THROWNNESS — Adam Roberts
  • IMAGO — Keith Brooke
  • THE VORKUTA EVENT — Ken MacLeod

    • Sold wherever fine SF anthologies are sold…

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