Awesome remarque, Priest! Wow! I have a lot of catching up to do!
Awesome remarque, Priest! Wow! I have a lot of catching up to do!
WANTED:
Dust jacket for The Shining SNL.
Dust jacket for 25th Anniversary edition of IT, signed, numbered, tray-cased copy.
Signed numbered limited edition of Josh Malerman's Goblin, published by Earthling Publications.
Congratulations all!
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Ubris
VERY nice everyone! Love Jae Lee's work
Dragline : Nothin'. A handful of nothin'. You stupid mullet head. He beat you with nothin'. Just like today when he kept comin' back at me - with nothin'.
Luke : Yeah, well, sometimes nothin' can be a real cool hand.
It's been a busy day here with things I can show, and other things that I can't. With Secret Santa purchases, a couple that I just couldn't resist getting myself, and seemingly a lot of Pre-Order items either coming, or coming soon, it will be a busy season. Here is what today brought.
My husband can't really keep track of what I have/don't have, or what exactly he'd be looking for even if he did know what I wanted, but he DID know that I didn't have "the one that just came out" so he came home from errands with Bazaar Of Bad Dreams to surprise me. He's a keeper.
Then the mail brought The Stephen King Companion, which looks to be a great read, and is my first official purchase from Betts Books. It came with a cool photo printout of one of the Chadbourne artworks that is reproduced in the book, which I couldn't get a decent snapshot of, but you probably all know what it looks like anyway. The snapshot I DO have for you is the detail of the David Williamson autograph so we can all work on forging it for big bucks on ebay! (Thank you, David!)
Now, as great as SK is at the short story form, I think one of his contemporaries, Raymond Carver, really was a master. I've been reading a dogeared paperback on roadtrips when we get tired of music for several decades. ABE's newsletter a few months back showed off a bunch of the Franklin Library Covers, and I saw their edition of Where I'm Calling From for the first time. I've been looking for a cheap copy of it since, but usually see it in the $75-$100+ range, more than I want to pay; however I found a BIN ebay auction on this Like New copy last week for less than $50 and jumped on it. Carver must have signed these just shortly before he died in 1988. I wish I knew how many of these there are, but that doesn't seem to be common knowledge on these editions. This could very likely be the best looking book in my bookcases though.
WANTED
US 1st Printings. I have THESE
#92 IT Portfolio (or the #95 IT to swap for the #92 that I have)
Any #95 SK-related Cemetery Dance Edition
Any #7 PS Publishing Edition
Sleeping Beauties: Signed Tour version.
That is a sharp lookin book! Congrats
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This arrived yesterday from Bett's. They look 31 days old not their 31 years and were part of David's personal collection he has been selling. Great price, packed like a pro and shipped quickly, David is the man.
I am a HUGE fan of the older LE books. And old Grant books rock!
I agree--those Grant editions are fantastic!
John
Love this limited: congratulations!
sk
So nice and shiny! I wish mine was that bright!
Wanted: Human skin edition of The Book of the Dead. Will accept PC copy.
Congrats on the Carver book, TCC. I think I read in the biography of Carver that came out a few years ago that he signed over 10,000 of those tip in sheets. He knew he was dying from lung cancer at the time and struggled to get them all done. He died before the regular hard cover edition came out.Originally Posted by TCCBodhi
It's been a busy day here with things I can show, and other things that I can't. With Secret Santa purchases, a couple that I just couldn't resist getting myself, and seemingly a lot of Pre-Order items either coming, or coming soon, it will be a busy season. Here is what today brought.
My husband can't really keep track of what I have/don't have, or what exactly he'd be looking for even if he did know what I wanted, but he DID know that I didn't have "the one that just came out" so he came home from errands with Bazaar Of Bad Dreams to surprise me. He's a keeper.
Then the mail brought The Stephen King Companion, which looks to be a great read, and is my first official purchase from Betts Books. It came with a cool photo printout of one of the Chadbourne artworks that is reproduced in the book, which I couldn't get a decent snapshot of, but you probably all know what it looks like anyway. The snapshot I DO have for you is the detail of the David Williamson autograph so we can all work on forging it for big bucks on ebay! (Thank you, David!)
Now, as great as SK is at the short story form, I think one of his contemporaries, Raymond Carver, really was a master. I've been reading a dogeared paperback on roadtrips when we get tired of music for several decades. ABE's newsletter a few months back showed off a bunch of the Franklin Library Covers, and I saw their edition of Where I'm Calling From for the first time. I've been looking for a cheap copy of it since, but usually see it in the $75-$100+ range, more than I want to pay; however I found a BIN ebay auction on this Like New copy last week for less than $50 and jumped on it. Carver must have signed these just shortly before he died in 1988. I wish I knew how many of these there are, but that doesn't seem to be common knowledge on these editions. This could very likely be the best looking book in my bookcases though.
Nice grabs everyone and everyone have a Happy Thanksgiving!
Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality. Edgar Allan Poe
Over the past couple of months I've had the pleasure of working with a great seller to obtain some of the proofs I need for my collection. The first two of a total of five proofs arrived today. At first I had planned to continue Paul's Rare Proof Wednesday in five monthly installments and 'unveil' the proofs, starting with the most common one and ending with the scarcest one. But I don't want to wait another two or three months so here we go, in no particular order.
Neither of these, nor the other proofs I have coming are as exceptionally scarce as the things we're used to seeing from Bob and Gerald but they're far from common.
The first one is the UK IT proof. I had another copy a few years ago with a spine that was so faded it was almost white. Needless to say, this one is MUCH better!
The second one is a proof that I never expected to find - but I did. I'll never own a Doubleday or NEL proof so this was basically my Holy Grail of the older proofs. I am super happy to have found a copy! The UK Dead Zone proof! It looks a bit washed out in this pic but it's not. Overall it's not in great condition but I don't care one bit. This one took me a LONG time to find...
If I can find some this weekend I'll post better pics in my collection thread, of the books together with their US counterparts and the trade editions.
Congratulations Michaël! Loving it so far. How wonderful to have that UK The Dead Zone proof! One of my favorite King books. Looking forward to seeing the others you will be getting.
Thanks, I knew you'd like them! I think your copy of the IT proof is even better than this one, but yeah, that Dead Zone proof is just great to have, even if it's in rough shape. It's also one of my favorite books and there's just something so cool about owning a little piece of publishing history that was never meant to survive 36 years - but it did.
Well said!
Congratulations my man... it is SO nice to see members get items they have searched for.. for so so so long. I am truly happy for you Micheal!!! kris
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Thanks, Kris! I know these shabby proofs don't appeal to everyone but I like them, can't explain why, and I am VERY happy with this one. Three more to come, though!
Congratulations, Michaël! I haven't seen a UK Dead Zone proof posted on this site in a long, long time. Very scarce!
Congrats, Michaël! Very special pieces.
Not all my art appeals to everyone.. but boy oh boy.. it makes me happy. SO good for you mate!!!
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Congrats Michael !
Congratulations Michaël! Some very nice copies!
John
2 new S/L's just arrived
"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
Nice! Congratulations!
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Ubris
Congratulations Simon!
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