Your New Pride and Joy!

[Garrell]

Nice Dan Simmons book, love the understated cover

[lotuz]

While it's been a shitty couple of weeks personally, it's been a GREAT couple of weeks book-wise, and I have a couple of things that I've been meaning to post. Here is the biggest and best and first!

I know that there are literally hundreds of pictures of this book around, and lots of them better than these, but I wanted to post more than just the limitation page, in case anyone had temporarily forgotten how freaking beautiful this whole production is.

First, the letter of provenance that accompanied the book. I'm grateful to Paul, as I really appreciate stuff like this. Although I'll never in my whole life forget about this experience, it's nice to have small reminders of provenance for the important books in my collection.




The beautiful (and soft!) black leather and dark red cloth:




Two-color letterpress printing, with art (after watching the letterpress video Paul posted for The Time Machine I think we all have a new appreciation for what it means to do two-color printing via letterpress!):




The first Easter Egg!




God I love these endpapers. Some of my favorite ever. I've mentioned before that I'm a big sucker for hand-marbled endpapers so sometimes I forget that there are machine-printed endpapers that are also just damn beautiful (the recent Rosemary's Baby numbered and the lettered Sleeping Beauties from earlier this year are other great examples).

I half joke (actually it's only quarter joking, I'm pretty serious) with my wife that I want to wallpaper my office with this paper - it's decadent, but not over-the-top, it's got a wonderful palette and the right amount of white space, and I love love love the gold accents. Not only is it beautiful on its own, but it's wonderfully evocative of a kind of wallpaper that Annie might have in her house.




Here's the copyright page that housed the long-kept secret (15 months!). Look at that letter "S" just staring everybody right in the damn face!




And finally, the limitation page. Red ink! I wasn't sure if these would be numbered 1-15 or 186-200 because I've never seen a picture of a red numbered Misery limitation page. Well, here it is, and it's the latter!

My best Pride & Joy, number 194:

[Garrell]

Amazing book!!!!!!!!!! I wish some day to have a numbered Misery in my collection, it is amazing.

[M_O_O_N]

Love the blood splattered page!

[bdwyer19]

Congrats on solving the Easter egg puzzle! That is a beautiful book!

[webstar1000]

I’m not super impressed you got the red number. You AND firemonkey solving this Indiana Jones / Da Vinci Code riddle... NOW THAT IMPRESSES ME. It was easily the coolest thing ever in the book world since I joined it 8-9 years ago. I wonder if Firemonkey never noticed it if anyone else would have. I noticed that S on Misery... but thought it was for Suntup. Thus never thought of it again. To do what you guys did shows real brains. Glad you both won a cool prize. It is so cool.


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[Hunchback Jack]

That’s a thing of beauty Tim - great photos, and such a great story behind it as well. It’s obviously going to an owner who truly appreciates it. Congratulations.

[Brian861]

Huge congrats on that one for sure, Tim!

[lotuz]

Thanks everyone! And again, big thanks to Paul for running such a cool contest and firemonkey for being so sleuthy to begin with!

And Kris, I agree - while I LOVE my new book, the full story behind it: Paul's idea, firemonkey's detective skills, and my fortuitous solution, is really the coolest part. I've never heard of anything like it either, and I'm so happy and proud to be a part!

[MikeDuke]

Congrats on solving the puzzle and getting that great copy of Misery. Well deserved. And a very cool contest indeed.

[becca69]

Glad you love your prize Tim!

[Dr. Dawg]

Very nice, and very impressive on all accounts! Man, I forgot how much I like those end papers...

[lotuz]

Very nice, and very impressive on all accounts! Man, I forgot how much I like those end papers...

When Misery was released, I tried my hardest to completely avoid all pictures of the book until I could see it in person. One night I scrolled down too fast in a thread, saw a flash of this pattern, and immediately closed the tab and avoided that thread - so the endpapers were like the only part of the book I partially saw. Even so, when I opened the book for the first time and saw them in person, I still let out an audible, involuntary gasp. Just spectacular papers!

[firemonkey66]

That is a spectacular prize! And such a nice post about it, Tim, Congratulations! Thank you for sharing it with us. And because I think that is a friggen awesome idea, I hereby vote that you actually DO wallpaper a room with the Misery endpapers and then post a photo of the red numbered Misery in it

And thank you, guys, for the kind words It was cool as hell to be involved.

[Ben Mears]

Lotuz + Firemonkey + Zelig = class acts.

[ur2ndbiggestfan]

Tim! You're a bloody paged genius!!

[playdohman]

Little gem from used bookstore today. Not in the greatest condition but also not one you find everyday. Considering the upcoming Suntup edition I felt this edition by it on the shelf would do nicely.




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[M_O_O_N]

Nice find.

"A Grotesque Romance" Gotta love it.

[Ari_Racing]

While it's been a shitty couple of weeks personally, it's been a GREAT couple of weeks book-wise, and I have a couple of things that I've been meaning to post. Here is the biggest and best and first!

I know that there are literally hundreds of pictures of this book around, and lots of them better than these, but I wanted to post more than just the limitation page, in case anyone had temporarily forgotten how freaking beautiful this whole production is.

First, the letter of provenance that accompanied the book. I'm grateful to Paul, as I really appreciate stuff like this. Although I'll never in my whole life forget about this experience, it's nice to have small reminders of provenance for the important books in my collection.




The beautiful (and soft!) black leather and dark red cloth:




Two-color letterpress printing, with art (after watching the letterpress video Paul posted for The Time Machine I think we all have a new appreciation for what it means to do two-color printing via letterpress!):




The first Easter Egg!




God I love these endpapers. Some of my favorite ever. I've mentioned before that I'm a big sucker for hand-marbled endpapers so sometimes I forget that there are machine-printed endpapers that are also just damn beautiful (the recent Rosemary's Baby numbered and the lettered Sleeping Beauties from earlier this year are other great examples).

I half joke (actually it's only quarter joking, I'm pretty serious) with my wife that I want to wallpaper my office with this paper - it's decadent, but not over-the-top, it's got a wonderful palette and the right amount of white space, and I love love love the gold accents. Not only is it beautiful on its own, but it's wonderfully evocative of a kind of wallpaper that Annie might have in her house.




Here's the copyright page that housed the long-kept secret (15 months!). Look at that letter "S" just staring everybody right in the damn face!




And finally, the limitation page. Red ink! I wasn't sure if these would be numbered 1-15 or 186-200 because I've never seen a picture of a red numbered Misery limitation page. Well, here it is, and it's the latter!

My best Pride & Joy, number 194:

Congrats!! AMAZING!

[Lurker]

Picked up a few things this month but these are P&J's:




A just about perfect Thinner from David (looks like it's never been read, clean, spotless..)and my favorite author Terry Tempest Williams new book signed.

Guess I'm going to need a slipcase for that Thiiner.

[M_O_O_N]

Very nice!

[Garrell]

Very nice

[stroppygoblin]

Guess I'm going to need a slipcase for that Thiiner.

I know a man....

[Lurker]

Thanks.
Yes, That's the slipcase. Need a couple of others from him too, but will probably wait til after the new year.

[Randall Flagg]

Picked up another Whelan piece from the Knowing Darkness set. Not sure if this is Trashcan Man, or just a zombie. It's currently at the framing shop.