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He was a nice guy.

I still re-read IVORY and PARADISE every couple of years, and re-read SANTIAGO in 2019.

Nothing to do with book collecting, but an inspirational article that I think will ring some bells with readers here....

I was a big Roger Zelazny collector back in the day; at one point, I owned all of his books in first edition, as well as a sizable percentage of his short fiction output in it's original magazine...

LOCUS has posted Forthcoming Books/Selected Titles of Interest to their website:
http://www.locusmag.com/Resources/ForthcomingBooks.html

He was one that my folks didn't allow. And as most of his stuff was contemporary with my childhood, by the time I was buying on my own, it would've been too young for me.

And now, from the other end:

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This may well be my favorite collection of fantasy fiction. I have a...

About the same time that I first read THE HOBBIT (the early 1970s), I also read:

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Over the years, it's...

Awesome.

I've bought a number of them, from B&N and elsewhere. Many are a pretty good value, but a number of the titles that they offered over the holidays were not first editions, so not really of great...

Something my fellow proof collectors might appreciate:

One of the sf authors that I collect/collected in depth was Kage Baker. The following is an example for her collection GODS AND PAWNS (Tor,...

I started collection ARCs of paperback originals back in the early 80s, but most of those are long since gone. Here's a person favorite:
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I read this back when it came out, and liked it a lot. It's the Stormlight Archive books that are my favorites of his; and I do appreciate the work be did finishing up The Wheel of Time.

A couple from my collection:

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I bought...

For them what might be interested:

We just posted a consignment lots of ten hardcover first editions from the XANTH series by Piers Anthony.
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A brilliant writer. It took me two tries to get through THE BOOK OF THE NEW SUN back in the day, but when it clicked, wow.

Among my all-time favorites. A copy of BRIDGE OF BIRDS is on the stack for a re-read later this month.

Nice! You inspired me and I went out and found one for $25!

I got this for $25 too very recently.
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His very 1st...

Love the vintage paperback art.

I've been waiting for that one to come up for sale.
It's a nice, small edition too. I'll be surprised if it doesn't sell out quickly.[/QUOTE]

Agree. Can't say that I'm the Card fan that I once...