Your New Pride and Joy!

[wizardsrainbow]

Robert Fulman-

Waste Lands is one of my favorite books by King, not just Dark Tower but overall. Love the Rose remarque!!!

I have had a nice relationship with artist Ned Dameron for some time now. He graciously signs books for me at Betts and from time to time he will do a special "piece" for me. Here are a couple. The first is a small remarque he did of my favorite scene in a S/L Waste Lands book...Aunt Talitha placing the cross over Roland's head. Some of you may recall, Ned did both a black and white remarque and a color remarque of the same scene in 2 trade editions I own. The second pic is one he finally sent me recently...when Ned did the original Aunt Talitha scene for me a couple years ago in the trade edition, he told me he has a prelim sketch somewhere of that scene that he would send me...he finally found it and sent it..it is a standalone piece which I may get framed.

[Pasiuk57]

David
NICE stuff!

[Shannon]

Such great stuff, guys. Very jealous!

[Dan]

Very cool, David!

[jhanic]

Very nice, David. You simply have to find the time to post more often!

John

[Merlin1958]

Through a crazy random happenstance, I was able to purchase a S/L of my favorite Dark Tower book:...

Oh, you're gonna have to post more in-depth pics on that one!!!

Okay, but only because you asked so nicely. Here is a picture of the S/L in its slipcase (yes, it's a bit dusty), next to the trade edition. Because the books use the same dust jacket (which doesn't even mention the pricing of the S/L), I took the jackets off for the picture. Behind the books, though, is one of my favorite collectibles: an untrimmed, unfolded Waste Lands dust jacket:



Here are the two books again, on their backs this time. The S/L has some lovely stamping on the front. One thing that surprised me is that the cover is a white cloth; for some reason, I though all the DTs S/Ls were done in a faux leather type cover:



Here is the limitation page for the S/L (#545). It is printed on the front free end paper (on the reverse of the Jake and Oy picture you can see framed above). This makes me wonder if there were any leftover end papers that may not have been signed...



My trade edition is special as well, because it has a nice little signed drawing of the Rose by Ned Dameron in it.:



As I said, the Waste Lands is my favorite Dark Tower book. I don't have an infinite amount of money, so I direct a lot of my collecting $ towards that book. Here are two of my Dark Tower shelves:



Up next is a minor investment in a Waste Lands slipcase from the Collector.

Thank you so much for sharing!!!!

Robert Fulman-

Waste Lands is one of my favorite books by King, not just Dark Tower but overall. Love the Rose remarque!!!

I have had a nice relationship with artist Ned Dameron for some time now. He graciously signs books for me at Betts and from time to time he will do a special "piece" for me. Here are a couple. The first is a small remarque he did of my favorite scene in a S/L Waste Lands book...Aunt Talitha placing the cross over Roland's head. Some of you may recall, Ned did both a black and white remarque and a color remarque of the same scene in 2 trade editions I own. The second pic is one he finally sent me recently...when Ned did the original Aunt Talitha scene for me a couple years ago in the trade edition, he told me he has a prelim sketch somewhere of that scene that he would send me...he finally found it and sent it..it is a standalone piece which I may get framed.

Very, very cool!!! That's, Ned alright!!! Nice!!!

He's a very nice man!!!

[Cook]

Through a crazy random happenstance, I was able to purchase a S/L of my favorite Dark Tower book:...

Oh, you're gonna have to post more in-depth pics on that one!!!

Okay, but only because you asked so nicely. Here is a picture of the S/L in its slipcase (yes, it's a bit dusty), next to the trade edition. Because the books use the same dust jacket (which doesn't even mention the pricing of the S/L), I took the jackets off for the picture. Behind the books, though, is one of my favorite collectibles: an untrimmed, unfolded Waste Lands dust jacket:



Here are the two books again, on their backs this time. The S/L has some lovely stamping on the front. One thing that surprised me is that the cover is a white cloth; for some reason, I though all the DTs S/Ls were done in a faux leather type cover:



Here is the limitation page for the S/L (#545). It is printed on the front free end paper (on the reverse of the Jake and Oy picture you can see framed above). This makes me wonder if there were any leftover end papers that may not have been signed...



My trade edition is special as well, because it has a nice little signed drawing of the Rose by Ned Dameron in it.:



As I said, the Waste Lands is my favorite Dark Tower book. I don't have an infinite amount of money, so I direct a lot of my collecting $ towards that book. Here are two of my Dark Tower shelves:



Up next is a minor investment in a Waste Lands slipcase from the Collector.

Excellent display Mr. Fulman,
I believe I'm due for a trip to Ikea as well
Super Congratulations to you.

[Robert Fulman]

1) I hunted down Ricky's signed (and crossed out) end-papers in his collection thread; very neat indeed.
2) I tried to buy Prime Evil from Betts Books last week, but it wasn't available. Lucky for me that I still had that money when I found The Waste Lands for sale. Ironic that David is also a fan of the Waste Lands and Ned Dameron. Elsewhere in my case, I have a sub-collection called "every Grant book with art by Ned Dameron" (that has pretty much just expanded to a collection of Grant books)
3) Thanks Merlin and Cook; Richard, you might recognize the three books in the top left of the bottom picture. They don't smell nearly as bad as they used to...

[bdwyer19]

The mailman delivered a 2nd state Salem's Lot yesterday. Looks pretty good in my Dolso case!

[Tito_Villa]

Looks great!

[biomieg]

Hey, you found one! That's great!

[jhanic]

Congratulations! Looks like a nice copy!

John

[becca69]

Congrats!

[becca69]

Received today..........thank you to a TDT Member.

LOVE! This is my holy grail and it's on my "I'll never own this book but I but I'd do anything for it" List! So jealous! I want to touch it.

[The Library Policeman]

Some amazing new aquisitions on this thread recently. Congratulations all!

[mae]

I'm really enjoying everyone's acquisitions, but maybe because I don't really collect limiteds (only when they're the first edition of the book, like the DT novels, or the only hardcover edition, like The Colorado Kid) is why I seem to generally not care as much for illustrations or remarques. I'm happy for those of you who do collect book for these features, but I'm just wondering if I'm the only one like that

[becca69]

Is the deluxe Silmarillion really worth around $600? The entire set cost me many times less that.

I don't know if it's actually worth that but that's what I've found for sale. I tried to get the set but couldn't find an affordable one (that was the first set that's sold out) - and they are 1st printings of that edition. So I collected them individually.

Hey Becca, I don't know if you've seen this, but The Silmarillion deluxe edition is available here for an okayish price: http://www.tolkienbookshelf.com/advS...nd=50&p=2&fp=1

Thanks for the info. I actually just found one on The Book Depository for $60.95 and free shipping. It's probably not a first like the one in the link but I'm ok with that... **twitch, twitch**

[mae]

Is the deluxe Silmarillion really worth around $600? The entire set cost me many times less that.

I don't know if it's actually worth that but that's what I've found for sale. I tried to get the set but couldn't find an affordable one (that was the first set that's sold out) - and they are 1st printings of that edition. So I collected them individually.

Hey Becca, I don't know if you've seen this, but The Silmarillion deluxe edition is available here for an okayish price: http://www.tolkienbookshelf.com/advS...nd=50&p=2&fp=1

Thanks for the info. I actually just found one on The Book Depository for $60.95 and free shipping. It's probably not a first like the one in the link but I'm ok with that... **twitch, twitch**

Awesome news! These books really are works of art all around.

[Mr. Rabbit Trick]

I'm really enjoying everyone's acquisitions, but maybe because I don't really collect limiteds (only when they're the first edition of the book, like the DT novels, or the only hardcover edition, like The Colorado Kid) is why I seem to generally not care as much for illustrations or remarques. I'm happy for those of you who do collect book for these features, but I'm just wondering if I'm the only one like that

No your'e not the only one. I read, and collect Stephen King books because I like the stories. Nothing else matters to me.

[ELazansky]

I'm really enjoying everyone's acquisitions, but maybe because I don't really collect limiteds (only when they're the first edition of the book, like the DT novels, or the only hardcover edition, like The Colorado Kid) is why I seem to generally not care as much for illustrations or remarques. I'm happy for those of you who do collect book for these features, but I'm just wondering if I'm the only one like that

I'm with you. I collect books from my favorite authors because of the stories themselves, not the illustrations. There's been a great debate about the new The Shining S/L and how it looks like some have decided not to buy it because of the illustrations. For me, the story is more important when it comes to books. I worry about the art when I am buying art.

[ChristineB]

I'm really enjoying everyone's acquisitions, but maybe because I don't really collect limiteds (only when they're the first edition of the book, like the DT novels, or the only hardcover edition, like The Colorado Kid) is why I seem to generally not care as much for illustrations or remarques. I'm happy for those of you who do collect book for these features, but I'm just wondering if I'm the only one like that

No Pablo, you are not the only one, I only collect the 1/1 trades of his books. I do have a few gift editions from the first days of my collecting when I didn't understand the whole collecting world, but other then those I only have 1/1 trades, I do have a couple signed copies but that is only cause he has done a couple signings in Atlanta which is easy for me to get to in a reasonable time frame.

[Merlin1958]

The mailman delivered a 2nd state Salem's Lot yesterday. Looks pretty good in my Dolso case!

Wow!!! That's AWESOME!!! One of my favorite illustrations as well!!!

[The Library Policeman]

From our very own Michael/Biomeg:



In excellent condition and very well packed. Good price too! Thank you Michael.

[biomieg]

You're welcome, I'm glad it went to one of the good guys!

[The Library Policeman]

It was sold by one of the good guys too