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    Quote Originally Posted by TCCBodhi View Post
    The 2nd that I got in yesterday was the amazing Deluxe Edition of The Shining with remarques by Don Maitz & Glenn Chadbourne. I didn't realize that I had ordered this 2 full YEARS ago! Great things are worth the wait though!







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    Just hit an estate sale, and for $36 out the door, I picked up the following:

    UK 1st of Desperation
    US 1st of The Eyes of the Dragon
    US 1st of Danse Macabre
    US 1st of The Bachman Books

    That's the good news.

    The bad news, as that before I got there, they had Carrie, The Stand, Night Shift, The Waste Lands, and Salem's Lot........no idea f they were firsts or not, but I suspect they were as these books belonged to a collector...all that I saw were firsts in Brodart covers in beautiful shape.
    FOR SALE OR TRADE

    Dark Tower 7 Artist Edition n/a
    The Waste Lands 1st Edition in Shrinkwrap $200
    1984 Grant Gift Edition of The Talisman $400
    Lisey's Story ARC $50
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    Signed 1st Edition of Storm of The Century (Paperback)

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    Quote Originally Posted by tippy4 View Post
    Just hit an estate sale, and for $36 out the door, I picked up the following:

    UK 1st of Desperation
    US 1st of The Eyes of the Dragon
    US 1st of Danse Macabre
    US 1st of The Bachman Books

    That's the good news.

    The bad news, as that before I got there, they had Carrie, The Stand, Night Shift, The Waste Lands, and Salem's Lot........no idea f they were firsts or not, but I suspect they were as these books belonged to a collector...all that I saw were firsts in Brodart covers in beautiful shape.
    Excellent find!

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    Thanks Ralph.

    I bought most of them for the DJs.

    I just upgraded my signed Danse Macabre from a DJ that was a "7" to one that is a "9".
    FOR SALE OR TRADE

    Dark Tower 7 Artist Edition n/a
    The Waste Lands 1st Edition in Shrinkwrap $200
    1984 Grant Gift Edition of The Talisman $400
    Lisey's Story ARC $50
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    Signed 1st Edition of Storm of The Century (Paperback)

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    Quote Originally Posted by tippy4 View Post
    Thanks Ralph.

    I bought most of them for the DJs.

    I just upgraded my signed Danse Macabre from a DJ that was a "7" to one that is a "9".
    Anytime you can upgrade from 7" to 9" is a good thing.

    Oh boy, that didn't come out right.

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    Ok, so I thought I would start with the extras that came with The Eyes of the Dragon art portfolios from Suntup. I was so pleased that Paul sent me one for each set, one for my numbered, and one for my lettered. I was ready to get rid of my box and it was only then that I noticed the tube that contained the posters - I almost screwed up royally. The Palladini book is great.


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    Quote Originally Posted by tippy4 View Post
    Just hit an estate sale, and for $36 out the door, I picked up the following:

    UK 1st of Desperation
    US 1st of The Eyes of the Dragon
    US 1st of Danse Macabre
    US 1st of The Bachman Books

    That's the good news.

    The bad news, as that before I got there, they had Carrie, The Stand, Night Shift, The Waste Lands, and Salem's Lot........no idea f they were firsts or not, but I suspect they were as these books belonged to a collector...all that I saw were firsts in Brodart covers in beautiful shape.
    Nice but that's too bad about the others
    Wanted: Human skin edition of The Book of the Dead. Will accept PC copy.

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    And here is my numbered edition. I gotta tell you, I found the linen napkin to be one of the finest attention to details I have seen from a publisher. I teach The Eyes of the Dragon to my freshmen in high school and we have had many a discussion surrounding the working title for the novel, The Napkins. I also loved that it was packaged with love from Thomas, at least that is want the note says. Another fine touch! This production is just awesome. If you have not ordered one, you really should. It is only surpassed by the quality of the lettered edition I will post pictures of later. I also love that I have a number that matches my Philtrum Press limited.








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    Quote Originally Posted by becca69 View Post
    Quote Originally Posted by tippy4 View Post
    Just hit an estate sale, and for $36 out the door, I picked up the following:

    UK 1st of Desperation
    US 1st of The Eyes of the Dragon
    US 1st of Danse Macabre
    US 1st of The Bachman Books

    That's the good news.

    The bad news, as that before I got there, they had Carrie, The Stand, Night Shift, The Waste Lands, and Salem's Lot........no idea f they were firsts or not, but I suspect they were as these books belonged to a collector...all that I saw were firsts in Brodart covers in beautiful shape.
    Nice but that's too bad about the others
    I've always figured that estate sales were a waste of time. Guess I was wrong. Congrats Rick!!

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    They usually are....but that one out of ten times keeps me looking......
    FOR SALE OR TRADE

    Dark Tower 7 Artist Edition n/a
    The Waste Lands 1st Edition in Shrinkwrap $200
    1984 Grant Gift Edition of The Talisman $400
    Lisey's Story ARC $50
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    This happened several years ago, but it's something I still feel giddy about. I used to practically live in mall bookstores in the eighties and nineties when I had nothing else better to do, and back then there was B. Dalton Booksellers, Waldenbooks, Border Books, and Tower Records along with the big B&N. Anyway, I wandered into Tower Records to peruse their music and Anime movies, actually having nothing on my mind about books, when I walked past the art book section and stopped.

    Now I love hardbacks and all, but I feel an incredible disdain for coffee-table-sized books as a b@stardization of gaudy reading due to their oversized height and overbearing weight, so on the whole I avoid these like the plague. BUT, I suddenly remembered I had found a previous art book called "Nightmares In The Sky" from this very store, which coincidentally, was the last time I had come in here, and decided to see if anything interesting like that showed up again (that book had completely caught me off-guard when it arrived in stores since I never followed any publications for new SK books back then...).

    As I looked through the selection, this ugly bright red-and-white monster wrapped in clear plastic fell out of the bottom right corner of the shelf, hidden behind the stack of other books. It had "MY PRETTY PONY" in giant, horrendous letters across its cover, and all I could think of was the glitzy, girly, diabetic-coma-inducing cartoon show and toys that my sister played with, so naturally I was immediately repelled by it. BUT, since my sister's 11th birthday was around the corner, I figured "Cool, here is her gift... she can keep it locked in her room with all her Ponies, Care Bears, and Cabbage Patch dolls and have something to read while she looks at the pictures. I checked the price sticker on the plastic and was equally rewarded with a nice, low, coffee-table book pricing.

    $2.50 plus tax - Closeout....... Sweet.

    So, I hoisted up this thing and headed to the registers with a corny smile on my face (notice that I never even read the spine, not even ONCE...), and plopped it on the counter. The guy behind the register looked over at my intended purchase....

    ...and froze, I mean completely FROZE.... with a look on his face like I had just handed him a note saying...

    "I HAVE A NUCLEAR DEVICE STRAPPED TO MY CHEST WRAPPED WITH BALL BEARINGS AND RAZOR BLADES AND WANT ALL YOUR GOLD BULLION YOU KEEP IN YOUR SAFE."

    Fortunately, the assistant manager happened to be back there as well and told the guy to put the book down and he would handle the transaction. As he did this, I thought, for a moment, this guy might actually start CRYING...

    Over some gaudy kids book...

    ...about glitter-junk...

    Ohhhhh-kay.

    As he was ringing me up, he then asked me how much I liked Stephen King, which I obviously thought was an odd question, and I told him that he was my all-time favorite writer, to which he responded, "Not surprising".

    Curiouser and curiouser.

    So, already long story now being shortened, I get this thing home, take it out of the plastic, and set it on the coffee-table for my sis to find when she got home from school later in the day, only to see the spine with "STEPHEN KING" written on it. I opened it up thinking it was probably some author who had the same name, only to find out it was really a King book I had never known about. I went back to TR and chased down the manager and got the backstory to all this.

    Apparently the guy behind the counter was a big King collector like me and had ordered the book for himself, but without some sort of special approval he was supposed to have in order to get it (probably from the book dealer he had ordered it from...). THIS time it had pissed off his manager something fierce, so he tried to get the dealer to refund the money back but was refused. AND being that there was no bar code in the computer system for this item, the manager had no choice but to price out the book on the shelf, with the condition that if no one bought the book before the guy's shift ended at noon, he could claim it (and it would be the last order he would ever receive there). I looked at the time on my receipt which read "11:45 AM".

    15 minutes later and I would've never even known about this book. Nice.

    So... why was the price so low I asked? Since it wasn't bar coded it had to be earmarked as a special order, the only cost attachment he could find was the shipping on the item since the approval situation had been bypassed (something about the cost of the book going against the company rather than the store I guess...), so he marked it out to the only pricetag he had for it, which was $2.50 + 4.5% sales tax.

    WOW.

    And he wouldn't go into any details on why they didn't fire the guy, just that he was reprimanded. As if losing a limited-run SK book to a customer wasn't bad enough.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Drake69 View Post
    This happened several years ago, but it's something I still feel giddy about. I used to practically live in mall bookstores in the eighties and nineties when I had nothing else better to do, and back then there was B. Dalton Booksellers, Waldenbooks, Border Books, and Tower Records along with the big B&N. Anyway, I wandered into Tower Records to peruse their music and Anime movies, actually having nothing on my mind about books, when I walked past the art book section and stopped.

    Now I love hardbacks and all, but I feel an incredible disdain for coffee-table-sized books as a b@stardization of gaudy reading due to their oversized height and overbearing weight, so on the whole I avoid these like the plague. BUT, I suddenly remembered I had found a previous art book called "Nightmares In The Sky" from this very store, which coincidentally, was the last time I had come in here, and decided to see if anything interesting like that showed up again (that book had completely caught me off-guard when it arrived in stores since I never followed any publications for new SK books back then...).

    As I looked through the selection, this ugly bright red-and-white monster wrapped in clear plastic fell out of the bottom right corner of the shelf, hidden behind the stack of other books. It had "MY PRETTY PONY" in giant, horrendous letters across its cover, and all I could think of was the glitzy, girly, diabetic-coma-inducing cartoon show and toys that my sister played with, so naturally I was immediately repelled by it. BUT, since my sister's 11th birthday was around the corner, I figured "Cool, here is her gift... she can keep it locked in her room with all her Ponies, Care Bears, and Cabbage Patch dolls and have something to read while she looks at the pictures. I checked the price sticker on the plastic and was equally rewarded with a nice, low, coffee-table book pricing.

    $2.50 plus tax - Closeout....... Sweet.

    So, I hoisted up this thing and headed to the registers with a corny smile on my face (notice that I never even read the spine, not even ONCE...), and plopped it on the counter. The guy behind the register looked over at my intended purchase....

    ...and froze, I mean completely FROZE.... with a look on his face like I had just handed him a note saying...

    "I HAVE A NUCLEAR DEVICE STRAPPED TO MY CHEST WRAPPED WITH BALL BEARINGS AND RAZOR BLADES AND WANT ALL YOUR GOLD BULLION YOU KEEP IN YOUR SAFE."

    Fortunately, the assistant manager happened to be back there as well and told the guy to put the book down and he would handle the transaction. As he did this, I thought, for a moment, this guy might actually start CRYING...

    Over some gaudy kids book...

    ...about glitter-junk...

    Ohhhhh-kay.

    As he was ringing me up, he then asked me how much I liked Stephen King, which I obviously thought was an odd question, and I told him that he was my all-time favorite writer, to which he responded, "Not surprising".

    Curiouser and curiouser.

    So, already long story now being shortened, I get this thing home, take it out of the plastic, and set it on the coffee-table for my sis to find when she got home from school later in the day, only to see the spine with "STEPHEN KING" written on it. I opened it up thinking it was probably some author who had the same name, only to find out it was really a King book I had never known about. I went back to TR and chased down the manager and got the backstory to all this.

    Apparently the guy behind the counter was a big King collector like me and had ordered the book for himself, but without some sort of special approval he was supposed to have in order to get it (probably from the book dealer he had ordered it from...). THIS time it had pissed off his manager something fierce, so he tried to get the dealer to refund the money back but was refused. AND being that there was no bar code in the computer system for this item, the manager had no choice but to price out the book on the shelf, with the condition that if no one bought the book before the guy's shift ended at noon, he could claim it (and it would be the last order he would ever receive there). I looked at the time on my receipt which read "11:45 AM".

    15 minutes later and I would've never even known about this book. Nice.

    So... why was the price so low I asked? Since it wasn't bar coded it had to be earmarked as a special order. The only cost attachment he could find was the shipping on the item since the approval situation had been bypassed (something about the cost of the book going against the company rather than the store I guess...), so he marked it out to the only pricetag he had for it, which was $2.50 + 4.5% sales tax.

    WOW.
    I feel for the bad for the guy, but what an awesome story!

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    It literally is surreal. Goes to show that you can still find rarities among common bookstores if you just keep your eyes open!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Drake69 View Post
    This happened several years ago, but it's something I still feel giddy about. I used to practically live in mall bookstores in the eighties and nineties when I had nothing else better to do, and back then there was B. Dalton Booksellers, Waldenbooks, Border Books, and Tower Records along with the big B&N. Anyway, I wandered into Tower Records to peruse their music and Anime movies, actually having nothing on my mind about books, when I walked past the art book section and stopped.

    Now I love hardbacks and all, but I feel an incredible disdain for coffee-table-sized books as a b@stardization of gaudy reading due to their oversized height and overbearing weight, so on the whole I avoid these like the plague. BUT, I suddenly remembered I had found a previous art book called "Nightmares In The Sky" from this very store, which coincidentally, was the last time I had come in here, and decided to see if anything interesting like that showed up again (that book had completely caught me off-guard when it arrived in stores since I never followed any publications for new SK books back then...).

    As I looked through the selection, this ugly bright red-and-white monster wrapped in clear plastic fell out of the bottom right corner of the shelf, hidden behind the stack of other books. It had "MY PRETTY PONY" in giant, horrendous letters across its cover, and all I could think of was the glitzy, girly, diabetic-coma-inducing cartoon show and toys that my sister played with, so naturally I was immediately repelled by it. BUT, since my sister's 11th birthday was around the corner, I figured "Cool, here is her gift... she can keep it locked in her room with all her Ponies, Care Bears, and Cabbage Patch dolls and have something to read while she looks at the pictures. I checked the price sticker on the plastic and was equally rewarded with a nice, low, coffee-table book pricing.

    $2.50 plus tax - Closeout....... Sweet.

    So, I hoisted up this thing and headed to the registers with a corny smile on my face (notice that I never even read the spine, not even ONCE...), and plopped it on the counter. The guy behind the register looked over at my intended purchase....

    ...and froze, I mean completely FROZE.... with a look on his face like I had just handed him a note saying...

    "I HAVE A NUCLEAR DEVICE STRAPPED TO MY CHEST WRAPPED WITH BALL BEARINGS AND RAZOR BLADES AND WANT ALL YOUR GOLD BULLION YOU KEEP IN YOUR SAFE."

    Fortunately, the assistant manager happened to be back there as well and told the guy to put the book down and he would handle the transaction. As he did this, I thought, for a moment, this guy might actually start CRYING...

    Over some gaudy kids book...

    ...about glitter-junk...

    Ohhhhh-kay.

    As he was ringing me up, he then asked me how much I liked Stephen King, which I obviously thought was an odd question, and I told him that he was my all-time favorite writer, to which he responded, "Not surprising".

    Curiouser and curiouser.

    So, already long story now being shortened, I get this thing home, take it out of the plastic, and set it on the coffee-table for my sis to find when she got home from school later in the day, only to see the spine with "STEPHEN KING" written on it. I opened it up thinking it was probably some author who had the same name, only to find out it was really a King book I had never known about. I went back to TR and chased down the manager and got the backstory to all this.

    Apparently the guy behind the counter was a big King collector like me and had ordered the book for himself, but without some sort of special approval he was supposed to have in order to get it (probably from the book dealer he had ordered it from...). THIS time it had pissed off his manager something fierce, so he tried to get the dealer to refund the money back but was refused. AND being that there was no bar code in the computer system for this item, the manager had no choice but to price out the book on the shelf, with the condition that if no one bought the book before the guy's shift ended at noon, he could claim it (and it would be the last order he would ever receive there). I looked at the time on my receipt which read "11:45 AM".

    15 minutes later and I would've never even known about this book. Nice.

    So... why was the price so low I asked? Since it wasn't bar coded it had to be earmarked as a special order, the only cost attachment he could find was the shipping on the item since the approval situation had been bypassed (something about the cost of the book going against the company rather than the store I guess...), so he marked it out to the only pricetag he had for it, which was $2.50 + 4.5% sales tax.

    WOW.

    And he wouldn't go into any details on why they didn't fire the guy, just that he was reprimanded. As if losing a limited-run SK book to a customer wasn't bad enough.
    All these years, and I've been trying to forget that story. Can't believe you were the guy!


    Just kidding!! Great story though!!

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    Just a handful of regular US Firsts found today at Half Price Books. There is another copy of the 1st printing of Gwendy's Button Box for $20 if someone really needs one. DJhas some crinkles on the top edge but no tears, rip or any real defects, just typical wear from being on the store shelf.

    Today's Buys:
    Gwendy's Button Box
    Dolores Claiborne
    Black House
    The Journals Of Eleanor Druse (I know it isn't really SK)
    & Christopher Rice's The Snow Garden (which I MIGHT be able to arrange to get signed)
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    US 1st Printings. I have THESE
    #92 IT Portfolio (or the #95 IT to swap for the #92 that I have)
    Any #95 SK-related Cemetery Dance Edition
    Any #7 PS Publishing Edition
    Sleeping Beauties: Signed Tour version.

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    I managed to pick up The Shining from Sub Press last week for cover price. I was expecting it to arrive with dinged corners or bad rubbing on the marbling hence they held it back but I would say this copy is meat perfect. If anyone can see rubbing (I. Don't know what I'm looking for) let me know! I'm pumped either way. I finally got to fill this hole in my collection.





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    Quote Originally Posted by jsmcmullen92 View Post
    I managed to pick up The Shining from Sub Press last week for cover price. I was expecting it to arrive with dinged corners or bad rubbing on the marbling hence they held it back but I would say this copy is meat perfect. If anyone can see rubbing (I. Don't know what I'm looking for) let me know! I'm pumped either way. I finally got to fill this hole in my collection.




    Looks like a perfect copy: awesome - and congratulations!!!



    sk

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    That's awesome that you were able to get one. I know their servers were pretty bogged down during that sale. Congrats, looks great!

    Quote Originally Posted by jsmcmullen92 View Post
    I managed to pick up The Shining from Sub Press last week for cover price. I was expecting it to arrive with dinged corners or bad rubbing on the marbling hence they held it back but I would say this copy is meat perfect. If anyone can see rubbing (I. Don't know what I'm looking for) let me know! I'm pumped either way. I finally got to fill this hole in my collection.




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    - S/L 'Fool Moon' Jim Butcher (Subterranean Press)

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    Wow!
    One of my (many) holy grails!!!
    Congrats.
    P2

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    Just received!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Ari_Racing View Post
    Just received!

    How about that, let us know if the first chapter ropes you in. Happy reading!
    "Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes they win." - SK

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    - S/L 'Fool Moon' Jim Butcher (Subterranean Press)

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    Nice one!
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    Look forward to hearing your review on it.

    Who's that behind you?

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