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    I probably discovered Lawrence Block 10 years ago, completely by accident. I found one of his Burglar books in a used bookstore and fell in love. I've read all of the Burglar books, and a handful of others. His "Small Town" is probably the smuttiest mainstream book I've ever read, but back in the sixties he wrote quite a few scandalous books using pen names. I started collecting LB sometime in the last year, and I have found that even though he is big time writer (a "Grand Master" of the mystery genre, no less), it is relatively cheap to collect some very nice limiteds. He also offers books for sale on his website and signs his name to anything he can get his hands on, so signed firsts are no problem as well. Anyway, here is a list of his books I borrowed from Wikipedia. I don't have collectible copies of all of the books, but I will provide details on the ones I do have, and I will pursue the ones I don't.

    All images posted by me in this thread are pictures or scans of books I personally own.

    Matthew Scudder novels
    1. The Sins of the Fathers (1976) (Dark Harvest S/L)
    2. In the Midst of Death (1976) (Lawrence Block Library S/L)
    3. Time to Murder and Create (1977)
    4. A Stab in the Dark (1981)
    5. Eight Million Ways to Die (1982)
    6. When the Sacred Ginmill Closes (1986) (Arbor House ARC)
    7. Out on the Cutting Edge (1989)
    8. A Ticket to the Boneyard (1990) (First Morrow Trade Edition)
    9. A Dance at the Slaughterhouse (1991) (First Morrow Trade Edition)
    10. A Walk Among the Tombstones (1992) (First Morrow Trade Edition)
    11. The Devil Knows You're Dead (1993) (First Trade Edition)
    12. A Long Line of Dead Men (1994) (First Trade Edition)
    13. Even the Wicked (1997) (First Trade Edition)
    14. Everybody Dies (1998) (First Trade Edition)
    15. Hope to Die (2001)
    16. All the Flowers Are Dying (2005) (First Trade Edition)
    17. A Drop of the Hard Stuff (2011)
    Bernie Rhodenbarr novels
    1. Burglars Can't Be Choosers (1977) (First Random House Edition S/L; Uncorrected Dutton Proof)
    2. The Burglar in the Closet (1978) (Random House First Edition)
    3. The Burglar Who Liked to Quote Kipling (1979) (Random House First Edition, Mystery Guild 1999)
    4. The Burglar Who Studied Spinoza (1980) (First Random House Edition)
    5. The Burglar Who Painted Like Mondrian (1983) (First Arbor House Edition)
    6. The Burglar Who Traded Ted Williams (1994) (Dutton S/L Advanced Reading Copy, First Dutton Trade Edition)
    7. The Burglar Who Thought He Was Bogart (1995) (Dutton S/L Advanced Reading Copy, First Dutton Trade Edition)
    8. The Burglar in the Library (1997) (Scorpion Press Signed/Limited)
    9. The Burglar in the Rye (1999) (First Dutton Trade Edition)
    10. The Burglar on the Prowl (2004) (First Morrow Trade Edition)
    11. "The Burglar Who Dropped In On Elvis" (Some Days You Get the Bear First Trade)
    12. "The Burglar Who Smelled Smoke" (Short Story)
    Evan Tanner novels
    1. The Thief Who Couldn't Sleep (1966) (1966 Fawcett Gold Medal Paperback Original)
    2. The Canceled Czech (1966)
    3. Tanner's Twelve Swingers (1967)
    4. The Scoreless Thai (a.k.a. Two for Tanner) (1968) (Subterranean Press S/L)
    5. Tanner's Tiger (1968)
    6. Here Comes a Hero (a.k.a. Tanner's Virgin) (1968)(1968 Fawcett Gold Medal Paperback Original)
    7. Me Tanner, You Jane (1970)
    8. Tanner on Ice (1998) (First Dutton Trade Edition)
    Chip Harrison novels/stories (as Chip Harrison)
    1. No Score (1970)
    2. Chip Harrison Scores Again (1971)
    3. Make Out With Murder (a.k.a. The Five Little Rich Girls) (1974)
    4. The Topless Tulip Caper (1975)
    5. "As Dark As Christmas Gets" (1997), a Chip Harrison short story written specifically for customers of the Otto Penzler-owned Mysterious Bookshop, printed in booklet format for the 1997 holiday season.
    Keller novels
    1. Hit Man (1998) (Philatelic Paperback Edition)
    2. Hit List (2000) (First Trade Edition, Philatelic Paperback Edition)
    3. Hit Parade (2006) (Philatelic Paperback Edition)
    4. Hit and Run (June 2008)

    Paul Kavanagh (Pen Name) novels
    1. Such Men Are Dangerous (1969)
    2. The Triumph of Evil (1971)
    3. Not Comin' Home to You (1974)

    Other fiction
    1. $20 Lust (1961) (reissued as Cinderella Sims)
    2. Death Pulls a Doublecross (1961) (reissued as Coward's Kiss)
    3. Mona (1961) (reissued as Sweet Slow Death and Grifter's Game)
    4. Markham (1961) (reissued as You Could Call It Murder)
    5. Pads Are for Passion (1961, as Sheldon Lord) (reissued as A Diet of Treacle)
    6. Fidel Castro Assassinated (1961, as Lee Duncan) (reissued as Killing Castro)
    7. The Girl with the Long Green Heart (1965)
    8. Deadly Honeymoon (1967)
    9. After the First Death (1969)
    10. The Specialists (1969) (1996 Hardcover Release)
    11. Ronald Rabbit Is a Dirty Old Man (1971)
    12. Ariel (1980) (1980 Arbor House S/L; 1996 Lawrence Block Library S/L)
    13. Random Walk (1988) (1988 TOR First; PS Publishing Slipcased S/L and Trade Hardcover S/L, 2008)
    14. Enough Rope: Collected Stories (2002)
    15. Small Town (2003)
    16. My Blueberry Nights (2007)
    17. Lucky at Cards (2007)
    18. Getting off, A novel of Sex and Violence (2011)
    Books for writers
    1. Writing the Novel From Plot to Print (1979)
    2. Telling Lies for Fun & Profit (1981)
    3. Write For Your Life (1986)
    4. Spider, Spin Me a Web (1987)
    5. The Liar's Bible (2011)
    Memoirs
    1. Step by Step: A Pedestrian Memoir (2009)
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    He's releasing a lot of his backlist on Kindle these days. My friend RJ Sevin at Creeping Hemlock Press reissued one of his early books recently, too. Campus Tramp.

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    Sins of the Fathers is the first book in the Matthew Scudder series. It was originally released in 1976, but was re-released in a limited hardcover by Dark Harvest in 1992. The book features an introduction/appreciation by Stephen King, and there was a Signed/Limited edition of 400 numbered copies signed by both Block and King. We have a catalog entry for this book (incorrectly titled "Sins of the Father"), but I am including a photo of my copy's limitation page, because mine is signed by King in PURPLE and I think that's kind of neat:


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    Quote Originally Posted by Robert Fulman View Post
    We have a catalog entry for this book (incorrectly titled "Sins of the Father"), ......
    Spelling corrected. Thanks.

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    Quote Originally Posted by LawrenceBlock.com
    This Bernie Rhodenbarr short story, by Lynne Wood Block and Lawrence Block, was written for the anthology Till Death Do Us Part, and first published in Mary Higgins Clark's Mystery Magazine, where it appeared as a special pamphlet bound into the magazine. The editors were kind enough to send us the overrun of the pamphlets, and we are now making them available to collectors, signed by both of the co-authors. "Unique" is an overused and often misused word, but it might actually apply here

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    Burglars Can't Be Choosers was the first Bernie Rhodenbarr book, originally published by Random House in 1977. When Dutton gained the rights to new books written in the 1990s, they also reissued the older ones. This is an uncorrected proof:


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    Quote Originally Posted by LawrenceBlock.com
    Set in Charleston, South Carolina, this novel about a spooky adopted child was first published in 1980 by Arbor House. In 1996, G&G Books brought out a limited edition under the imprint of The Lawrence Block Library. The total press run ran to 500 signed and numbered copies, 26 lettered copies, and a dozen A/P author's copies. While it's not the first hardcover edition (the Arbor House book was hardcover) it's nicely printed and bound, and includes an author's afterword written especially for this edition.
    As of August 30, 2011, this S/L is available from lawrenceblock.com for only $10.



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    Quote Originally Posted by LawrenceBlock.com
    Originally published as a Gold Medal pb in 1969, this book was very deliberately designed to be the first in an action-adventure series. The heroes are five former Green Berets who pull military-style capers in aid of Truth, Justice, and the American Way. I wrote the one book and found out that, though this is a kind of book I like to read, it wasn't one I liked to write. So I pulled the plug on the enterprise, much to the surprise of my agent, who kept saying he thought this was going to be the first of a series. (I finally told him I didn't see any reason why he and I couldn't think of it as a one-book series. I don't know that that made him happy, but it kept him quiet.) The book had a couple of paperback editions, but never appeared in hardcover in the US until 1996, when James Cahill brought it out with art by Phil Parks, along with a new afterword. He had distribution problems, however, and wound up paying me off in copies. I thought I'd own the little darlings forever, but they got such a warm reception on tour that I sold out all I had and wound up buying the publisher's entire remaining stock. The books are in mint condition. The original retail price is $25, and I've seen the book on E-bay for twice that, but we're able to offer them for the original price of $25. And for that price you're not merely getting an autographed copy of a hardcover first edition---you're getting a complete series!

    Cahill Press published this non-series title, and we bought out the publisher's stock and have been selling it here ever since for $25. It's a popular item for us. Cahill also published a signed boxed Limited Edition, and we've got copies of that as well, but never got around to offering them. The book is boxed and numbered, with a nice black leather-like library binding, and is a pretty scarce item. These won't be around long at only $50 each!
    As shown, the S/L comes in a lovely green slipcase. Cover price on the trade was $25, S/L was $75. I love the story about the distribution problems, and the fact that S/L was never actually available for sale from the publisher.



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    Quote Originally Posted by LawrenceBlock.com
    From Subterranean Press, this is the fourth Evan Tanner novel, it's original title restored at last. Never before published in hardcover, and fitted out with Phil Parks cover art and an afterward by the author.
    As shown, S/L comes in a black slipcase. List price on trade hardcover was $30, S/L was $75.



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    Hardcover Random House first edition of the fourth "Burglar" book from 1980. Cover price is $8.95. Number line of "98765432" represents a first printing (I believe; I have seen pictures of an uncorrected proof with the same number line).


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    Hardcover Arbor House first edition of the fifth "Burglar" book from 1983. Cover price is $14.50 (quite a jump from the prior title). In case you can't tell, in each book the item Bernie has to steal is themed. In this case, it is a piece of modern art.


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    That's it for now, but I have a handful of titles coming in the mail. I'm particularly excited for a leather quarter-bound S/L of "The Burglar in the Library". I mention above that LB signs anything and everything. The last two Burglar books I have posted are each signed on the title page. I often wonder why, given his thoughts on collectors, Stephen King doesn't also just sign everything he can find. That would be one way of making the collectors go away, I suppose...

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    Quote Originally Posted by Robert Fulman View Post
    Hardcover Random House first edition of the fourth "Burglar" book from 1980. Cover price is $8.95. Number line of "98765432" represents a first printing (I believe; I have seen pictures of an uncorrected proof with the same number line).
    It looks like that number line must be Random House's standard for first printings. King and Straub's Black House was also published by Random House and has the same number line for the first printing.

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    Impressive collection!
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    Thanks! Starting with Stephen King made me think that book collecting has to be an expensive pursuit. I've definitely noticed that I can pick up Lawrence Block (and I imagine that other authors are similar) at or near opening bids on ebay, so I just need to be patient. More to come!

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    Both Lawrence Block and his "Hit Man" Keller collect stamps. So here we have some paperback copies of the first three books in the Hit Man series, signed and stamped. There's nothing special about the books themselves (this first book appears to be a fifteenth printing), but they are neat and they were cheap ($30 for all three). There is a stamped first edition hardcover of the fourth in the series, but I don't have that (yet).

    Quote Originally Posted by LawrenceBlock.com
    A set of the first three Keller novels to complement the philatelic edition of Hit and Run. These are signed, and will include a philatelic enhancement; each book will bear the appropriate stamp (1¢, 2¢, or 3¢) from the 1938 Presidential series, each canceled by a special Keller cancellation. Keller had these stamps in his boyhood collection; that's how he learned to name the presidents in order.

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    PS Publishing Signed Limited Slipcased Edition of Random Walk (ISBN 978-1-905834-58-7). Cover price 50 pounds/$100. Book comes with brown slipcase (shown in first picture), is signed by Lawrence Block and Spider Robinson (who wrote the introduction), and is limited/numbered up to 200 copies:



    Interestingly, PS also issued a Signed Limited Trade Hardcover Edition of Random Walk (ISBN 978-1-905834-57-0), with a cover price of 20 pounds/$50. The book is fundamentally the same as the slipcased edition, except:
    1. There is no slipcase
    2. There is no dust jacket, the boards are printed to look exactly like the dust jacket of the slipcased edition
    3. There is no ribbon page marker
    4. Signed only by Block on the limitation page, and numbered/limited to 500 copies

    Here are the two versions next to each other (with a special guest):


    And here is the limitation page:
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    I continue to be surprised at how little action there is on Lawrence Block books. I just picked up a 1979 Arbor House S/L (#382 out of 500) for $15, and I was the only bidder. I also have some Burglar and Scudder firsts coming soon, as well as a faux leather Mystery Guild edition of "Burglar in the Library" which sounds ultra-cheesy. I can't wait.

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    "This limited edition is bound from the sheets of the first edition and published by arrangement with No Exit Press Limited"
    ISBN 1-873567 29 4
    Published by Scorpion Press in 1997
    Quarter bound in leather with marbled boards and blue top-stain.



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    So, this is a funny one. It is a Random House First Edition of the first "Burglar" book, "Burglars Can't be Choosers" (1977). The cover price is $6.95, and because it's RH, the number line is "98765432". First thing to note is that the title is spelled wrong on the dust jacket, due to an errant apostrophe. Also interesting, though is that this is also a Signed/Limited edition. A thick piece of paper has been glued in (Tipped in? I thought that happened before binding, but I could be wrong), and to that page a sticker/bookplate has been affixed stating:

    "Burglars Can't Be Choosers
    a Novel
    by Lawrence Block

    Being the literary debut
    of Bernard Rhodenbarr, Burglar

    One of one thousand copies
    of the First Edition
    serially numbered
    &
    signed by the Author
    of which this volume is
    No. ___"

    My understanding is that Lawrence Block bought up the copies and issued this on his own, but I could be wrong.


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    First Trade edition of the ninth Scudder novel, "A Dance at the Slaughterhouse", published by Morrow in 1991. Cover price $19.00. Lovely embossed stream of blood on the cover.

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    First Trade edition of the tenth Scudder novel, "A Walk Among the Tombstones", published by Morrow in 1992. Cover price is only $17.00. Embossed blood must be expensive.

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    I also had unsigned firsts of "Random Walk" and "The Devil Knows You're Dead", but the got pretty much destroyed in the mail. They were pretty cheap, and the seller is a reasonable fellow, so hopefully I'll find replacements soon. I have most of the firsts of the Burglar series coming in the mail, and then I'm going to take a break.

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