2018 Collecting Goals
Hey All, I could not find a thread for next years collecting goals but I have mine:
- My Pretty Pony in the original traycase
- FINE/FINE US IT 1st
- Duddits Hard cover (mostly need a jacket)
- King Signed UK Choo Choo 1/1000
- To go to another King event in 2018
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Insomnia #459
ANY S/L #459
I’m taking the year off. Saving for Orlando in early 2019. My daughter will be 5, so it’s Mickey & Minnie all the way
I don't know how much I can do in 2018 but here is my list
- Christine S\L
- The Talisman S\L
- other affordable (to me) S\L
- Signed outsider/limited outsider (hopefully)
- Some proofs
If I happen to find some other stuff that is in my range, that I like.
Books on the 2018 wishlist
- Green Mile S/L
- Hoping for an Outsider S/L (US and or UK)
- at least 2 more Lettered copies for my Books about King subcollection
Guaranteed for 2018:
- Sleeping Beauties S/L
- Gwendy's Button Box S/L
- Fire-starter Rebound (may see this in 2017!)
- IT Rebound
"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
I forgot about those, Simon. It seems I am still in the game next year after all.Originally Posted by stroppygoblin
2017 was pretty a pretty good year, as I added some very cool Dameron remarques in my WTTKH and CTCC. I also added a red numbered EOTD with a matching art portfolio from Suntup. And I finally got back into the Dolan's Cadillac game with a 1/1000 copy in a slipcase. And I have all the new King limiteds secured.
Gotta finish paying for my new kitchen, ugh, but the hunt goes on for the following, at the right price, in 2018:
Gunslinger S/L #255
Drawing of the Three S/L #255
Colorado Kid S/L #33 Potter and Chadbourne
Cycle of the Werewolf S/L with the remarque
The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon S/L
Regulators - Lettered (dream)
Carrie - lettered (dream)
Thinner - lettered (dream)
Adding more remarques to my books!
My goals are to obtain:
1) a nice 3d state 'Salem's Lot
2) perhaps a 1st ed. Gunslinger (I have a great 2nd edition and never really felt the need to upgrade)
3) a few Signet 1st/1st mass-market paperbacks from the 80s in nice condition
4) trade editions of new King books
And I hope to sell a few books that I no longer need ('Salem's Lot Centipede gift ed., a few UK 1sts including The Stand and Danse Macabre, Dolan's Cadillac proof, maybe a few CD/PS gift editions, ...)
If anyone can help me out with goals 1) and 2), I'd be happy to do a trade + cash deal...
"Lettered" PC of Colorado Kid. Chadbourne version.
Attend a King event.
Signed "The Outsider".
Lettered Gwendy's Button Box
Lettered Sleeping Beauties
Lettered The Outsider
Whelan Art from Knowing Darkness
Just wishful thinking or.......
sk
Looks like I have some carry over for 2019
A month late for 2018, but snagged a Miller 1/33 Colorado Kid.
Looks like I have some carry over for 2019
Finally! Congratulations!A month late for 2018, but snagged a Miller 1/33 Colorado Kid.
Looks like I have some carry over for 2019
Wanted:
Carrie PS Publishing Lettered ‘G’
Charlie the Choo Choo U.K. S/L #157
Dark Tower Portfolio #157
Assuming all goes well, 2018 will mark my first full year as a SK collector. I've only been collecting his books since July 2017 so I have quite a few items on my wishlist that many have long owned.
My goals (no particular order):
- First signed King book
- Obtain all of SK 1st US editions (I know I will struggle w/ early Doubleday books at reasonable prices but no use not trying)
- Obtain all of SK's books in Arabic
- The Dead Zone (1st edition Easton Press + Slipcase)
- One For The Road (Unsigned)
- The Plant (A Privately Bound Copy)
- Obtain something published on Philtrum Press
- Try and get some gift editions (Lettered books out of my reach for now)
Non-SK collecting goals
- Complete my collection of Naguib Mahfouz (Egypt's Nobel Prize Laureate in Literature) books in English. His work was translated and published on Doubleday in the early 90s. Looking for proofs & 1st editions. Already have his books in Arabic. I can't afford signed copies, though. Even in English, his signature is worth more than I can pay at age 26.
Last edited by Zidan; 04-01-2018 at 01:39 PM.
Over the last year, it seemed every book fair I attended had copies of Philtrum's Eyes Of The Dragon; hopefully availability will work in your favor (for everything else on your list as well, of course).
You have plenty of time! Just keep at it; slow and steady will win this race.
It seems I'm miles above the surface of the Earth
I can see across the whole of London and beyond
Good advice. Really appreciate it. Thank you!Over the last year, it seemed every book fair I attended had copies of Philtrum's Eyes Of The Dragon; hopefully availability will work in your favor (for everything else on your list as well, of course).
You have plenty of time! Just keep at it; slow and steady will win this race.
Sent you a PM/
Wants:
Insomnia S/L
Joyland S/L
Have:
Doctor Sleep - CD PC copy
Very Best of Best New Horror - PC copy
Smoke and Mirrors - PC copy
PS Publishing Anniversary editions set
I've been able to strike off a couple of my goals for the year. Obtained my first signed King book from Betts Books (signed Insomnia gift edition) and purchased a F/F The Ideal Genuine Man from Philtrum (couldn't afford others just yet) and picked up some gift editions.
Congratulations, Zidan. Getting your first signed King book is awesome, but a dangerous slippery slope. So happy for you!I've been able to strike off a couple of my goals for the year. Obtained my first signed King book from Betts Books (signed Insomnia gift edition) and purchased a F/F The Ideal Genuine Man from Philtrum (couldn't afford others just yet) and picked up some gift editions.
Thank you! It really was a surreal feeling to see the signature in the book. And you're right, it is a slippery slope. I'm already thinking about the next one...Congratulations, Zidan. Getting your first signed King book is awesome, but a dangerous slippery slope. So happy for you!I've been able to strike off a couple of my goals for the year. Obtained my first signed King book from Betts Books (signed Insomnia gift edition) and purchased a F/F The Ideal Genuine Man from Philtrum (couldn't afford others just yet) and picked up some gift editions.
My realistic list for 2018:
- Sleeping Beauties S/L (already ordered)
- Hoping for an Outsider S/L (US or UK)
- One other affordable King S/L
- Affordable (read: dinged up) copy of Gunslinger 1984 edition
Aspirational:
- Gunslinger S/L
- TWTTK S/L
- A nicer copy of NEL The Long Walk 1st
- IT "Special Collector's Edition" NEL PB
... and a *heap* of Non-King stuff.
HBJ
2018 was a good year for me.. scoring a few things I've been trying to get for years.
2019 will be a rather small list
Different Seasons Signed 1st/1st
Pet Sematary Signed 1st/1st
Are you from the future? How did 2018 go for me?
Are you from the future? How did 2018 go for me?
Haha
lolAre you from the future? How did 2018 go for me?
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Insomnia #459
ANY S/L #459
Oops... you know when you get so busy you forget what day of the week it is? Well apparently I've lost all concept of what year I'm currently in.Are you from the future? How did 2018 go for me?
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