I have a Straub flat signed Black House (1st/1st Trade) the guy I bought it from didn't even notice it was there!
I have a Straub flat signed Black House (1st/1st Trade) the guy I bought it from didn't even notice it was there!
"A real limited edition, far from being an expensive autograph stapled to a novel, is a treasure. And like all treasures do, it transforms the responsible owner into a caretaker, and being a caretaker of something as fragile and easily destroyed as ideas and images is not a bad thing but a good one...and so is the re-evaluation of what books are and what they do that necessarily follows." - Stephen King
Oh, that is nice, but you really need to get the S/L. It's just freaking AWESOME!!! Wonderful production!!!Originally Posted by stroppygoblin
28 in 23 (?)!!!!
63 in '23!!!!!!!!!!
My Collection: https://www.thedarktower.org/palaver...ion-Merlin1958
The Houston Astros cheated Major League Baseball from 2017-18!!!! Is that how we teach our kids to play the game now?????
I have two copies. The first is inscribed (but not numbered). I paid $400 for it back in 2000 to Barry Levin. Barry is always very high and I knew that but I had never seen a copy before and didn't know if I would ever see another so I bought it. My other copy is unsigned and unnumbered. Bought it for $85 on eBay in 2009. Both of my copies are in really nice condition and have the transparent acetate dust jackets.
And I was confused on the numbering of the hardback copies. Neither of mine are numbered. But I think Peter is unsure himself. Here is an e-mail with him answering that question. And another e-mail addressing a possible reason for the scarcity of Open Air.
Thanks for that info and those scans. You are a veritable font of knowledge on Straub and that's so cool!
The acetate dustjacket surprisingly survives on my library edition of "Open Air". Apart from a tear inside and a couple of library markings it's in really good condition so I'm pretty happy with it considering the low price. I'll post scans soon. Meanwhile, my photocopy of "My Life in Pictures" arrived from the National Library of Ireland. I doubt I'll ever find it for sale so the photocopy will have to suffice!
Here's photos of the number and signature on my copy of "Open Air".And I was confused on the numbering of the hardback copies. Neither of mine are numbered. But I think Peter is unsure himself. Here is an e-mail with him answering that question. And another e-mail addressing a possible reason for the scarcity of Open Air.
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I'm afraid the collection of S/L's is a very slippery slope I don't want to step onto right now....Oh, that is nice, but you really need to get the S/L. It's just freaking AWESOME!!! Wonderful production!!!
"A real limited edition, far from being an expensive autograph stapled to a novel, is a treasure. And like all treasures do, it transforms the responsible owner into a caretaker, and being a caretaker of something as fragile and easily destroyed as ideas and images is not a bad thing but a good one...and so is the re-evaluation of what books are and what they do that necessarily follows." - Stephen King
As for S/L's, I don't know why but I've always preferred personally inscribed books over S/L's. I own a handful of S/L's by King, Straub, and a few others, but I tend to prefer a pretty cool inscription over an S/L. I'd prefer S/L over flatsigned but inscriptions are my usual collecting "buzz". I've never managed to get one by King signed to my name so I have several he's signed to others, some really cool. Also, Richard Laymon and Dean Koontz both tend to do great inscriptions - Koontz is usually funny, Laymon was very original (I own one with a funny little original verse).I'm afraid the collection of S/L's is a very slippery slope I don't want to step onto right now....Oh, that is nice, but you really need to get the S/L. It's just freaking AWESOME!!! Wonderful production!!!
Straub's first published novel Marriages was published in the US in 1973. The blue dust jacket is very prone to wear, creasing, tearing and developing white spots. It is fragile like 'Salem's Lot dj's and shows everything. Most of the ones I see for sale are actually pretty ugly. I picked this copy up on eBay and it is the nicest one I have ever seen. No tears on the dj edges at all and minimal blemishes. The seller didn't give it away but I am happy to have it in my collection.
Very nice! I haven't read this one.
It isn't classic Straub by any means. I'm not sure even Peter himself would recommend it very highly. Nothing supernatural or particularly thrilling, IIRC. I only read it once years ago.
Nice! I'd not heard of that one either.
John
It's not at all like his other work. Angsty relationship stuff. It's okay, but not something I'd ever feel the need to read again.
Author of The Road to the Dark Tower, Stephen King: A Complete Exploration of His Work, Life, and Influences and The Dark Tower Companion. Co-editor with Stephen King of the anthology Flight or Fright.
Finally picked up a copy of ISHMAEL. Number 39 signed.
I've never seen one of these before. Promotional excerpt for the paperback release of Ghost Story. Thought I had pretty much everything Straub.
Very cool! I miss the days when publishers actually promoted the books they were, you know, publishing.
Hunter
I've never seen one of these before. Promotional excerpt for the paperback release of Ghost Story. Thought I had pretty much everything Straub.
Nice item!
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I've posted this elsewhere, but I have two Grant Signed Limiteds of "Black House":
One of which is one of 20 (?) PCs:
But what makes this one special is that it came from the library of Peter Straub himself:
I also purchased "The General's Wife", with a similar letter, from the Straubs but I don't have pictures available.
Here's "The General's Wife":
New today:
Is that an upcoming publication? That "fragment" was previously published in 2003 in Museum Of Horrors, edited by Dennis Etchison. I wonder why Straub and Sub Press feel it needs to be republished? I buy almost everything Straub but I am hesitant to jump on this one.
Here's a shot of the back:
Has a 2001 copyright date, so a guess is that it's a reprint. I saw this in the Locus Forthcoming Books last month, but there hasn't been an announcement that I've seen.
From : http://peterstraub.net/
THOUGH STILLBORN, PERDIDO RETURNS TO ITS HALF-LIFE
Posted on: May 26th, 2014 by admin
Subterranean Press is going to be putting out a new edition of “Perdido (Fragment of a Work in Progress)” previously published in the Museum of Horrors Anthology by the Horror Writers Association
>>> http://peterstraub.net/hough-stillbo...its-half-life/
But I dont see anyting on the SP website
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Straub's website also lists a 2014 edition of Julia from Centipede press that is not mentioned on the Centipede site.
I have Lost boy lost girl ARC for sale. PM me if interested
Just lost out today on a sweet deal on the S/L HC of FLOATING DRAGON (the original Underwood/Miller edition, the one w/ the Dillon art on it, not the later CD S/L). Damn it.
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