2009 Collecting Goals / 2009 Collecting Achievements

[Darkthoughts]

The "Reading List 2009 Goals" thread in Dutch Hill inspired me to create this thread. Is there a particular part of your collection you hope to complete or improve on this year? Are you planning on collecting a new author? Branching into the comics?

Personally I plan to vastly increase my Gaiman collection, starting with The Sandman series - which I owned previously and ended up selling for financial reasons a few years back

I'd also love to get the rest of the Grant DT books (I have WoTC so far, thanks to Jerome )

[turtlex]

Great idea.

Let's see - I would like to complete my CGC Graded 9.8 Dark Tower comics collection. Fill in the missing graded issues and continue to add to the set as new comics are issued.

I have ordered and am very much looking forward to getting my Artists Edition of LSoE. I can't wait for that ( fingers crossed for a remarque'd copy ).

[willie3]

Well I always aim high...

This year I would like to finally add a S/L Stand to my collection.

Would also like to acquire a S/L or Lettered Regulators.

Economy going the way it is, whichever comes first at a price I can't refuse.

[fernandito]

Personally I plan to vastly increase my Gaiman collection, starting with The Sandman series

Wise decision!

I want to start collecting novels from authors I have yet to read, namely Kurt Vonnegut and Cormac McCarthy. I want to expand my Philip K. Dick library (I only own The Man in the High Castle), and as far as comics go - I really really want to start Doom Patrol.

[Darkthoughts]

and as far as comics go - I really really want to start Doom Patrol.

You won't regret it, it's an excellent series

[Matt]

I'm going to continue my collection of 1sts in the Dark Tower series if I can. All the comics that come out and I have "He is Legend" coming in the mail I think.

[jhanic]

ARC/proof of Under the Dome when it finally appears!

John

[Patrick]

Great thread idea, Lisa.

My 2009 collecting goals are:

1) Obtain books already ordered and often already paid for:
Gaiman's Coraline S/L, Koontz's Odd Thomas 1st/1st signed, Songs of the Dying Earth S/L (w/ Gaiman), He is Legend - Slipcased (King/Hill), LSOE S/L, LSOE AE, Big Book of Necon trade edition, and probably last, but not least: The Secretary of Dreams, Vol. II S/L.

2) Get a decent bookcase with lockable glass doors.
No locks on the doors though.

3) Expand my modest signed Gaiman collection.

4) Grow my nascent signed Vonnegut collection, specifically through the Easton Press books.

5) Pick up some or all of the sketch and/or color variant issues of the Dark Tower comic series subsequent to the Gunslinger Born story arc - I don't have much past that point other than the standard editions.
So far: obtained all released color variants for both TLRH and Treachery story arcs. Working on the sketch variants.

6) Think about obtaining Firestarter S/L, Christine S/L and/or Cujo S/L.
Obtained Skeleton Crew S/L and Dolan's Cadillac S/L.

7) Continue to lust after everyone else's new acquisitions.


I'm pretty sure that at least #1 and #7 are achievable goals.

[herbertwest]

As many possible of the french 1st editions & looking for the few french items that i dont have or never heard about :-)
So far, the only 1st editions I own are what i consider as the scarcest and the earlier work, because i moved a lot.

Oh, and publish 2 books!

However, i plan to move to Paris in september, so, being a student, i'll have to watch even more my expenses.... and have place to store everything lol

So (if everything's go as planned), if anyone is going through Paris... :-)

[e_taylor]

My goals are pretty modest for this upcoming year. They were bigger, but I was laid off from one job, and have had my hours cut from the other recently - I don't plan on dropping out of school anytime soon, so money will be tight this year.

Anyways, I'm hoping to get:

1) 1st Editions of the Shining (US & UK)
2) a 1st edition 'Salem's Lot, preferably the US, but would settle for the UK
3) S/L Skeleton Crew or Regulators
4) S/L From a Buick 8
5) Some miscellaneous Slade stuff



Turtlex - do you need the End World Almanac in 9.8? I've got one, PM me if interested.

[super sam]

This year i want to have a copy of a 1st/1st Carrie,Salems lot,Rage or Night Shift.

[The Cosmic Geek]

This year I'd like to:

Try and buy the variant covers to the Dark Tower comics.
Get the DT books in hardcover, most of mine are paperbacks at the moment
Get that limited edition Sisters of Eluria/Gunslinger book
Collect miscellaneous Dark Tower stuff
Continue collecting Rocketeer merchandise
Read the rest of Gaiman's Sandman
Add more books to my J.R.R. Tolkien library

[William50]

This year I'd like to:

Try and buy the variant covers to the Dark Tower comics.
Get the DT books in hardcover, most of mine are paperbacks at the moment
Get that limited edition Sisters of Eluria/Gunslinger book
Collect miscellaneous Dark Tower stuff
Continue collecting Rocketeer merchandise
Read the rest of Gaiman's Sandman
Add more books to my J.R.R. Tolkien library

Up until this year I had no idea that JRR Tolkien wrote anything other that LOTR. I found The Histories of Middle Earth online and now i've started a Tolkein collection myself. The DT series and LOTR series are pricless to me.

[The Cosmic Geek]

William50, I feel the same way about my DT and Tolkien books.

Tolkien wise I'm trying to get anything and everything about him and from him, much like my King collection.

There are great bios on Tolkien and his friendship with C.S. Lewis, other stories he wrote, and just books upon books about LOTR and the Hobbit.

[William50]

I want them all so much.

[nt07077]

My goals would be to get into collecting DT comics, buy variations of already published King stories, try to get all King novels in hardcover, try to get scans of King's articles from his highschool newspaper the Drum, the Libson Enterprise and The Maine Campus. And collect any other material King decides to put out his year.
Although not a collecting goal, I want to get accepted into the university of South Florida.

[William50]

Ah, very nice last goal. Good luck.

[nt07077]

The application is in the mail and I'm just a waiting. (Very anxiously!)

[Patrick]

Good luck, nt!

[nt07077]

Thanks, Patrick!

[William50]

I cant wait for high school to be over. I have no idea where im going after though...

[gsvec]

Continue looking for the 'unique' collectibles & promo items, more ARCs (and yes, John - Under the Dome!), and the illusive college works. Find and be able to afford my Gunslinger #64.

Oh, and new bookcases for all of it!

[William50]

AH! Thanks for reminding me! I've got more books than I do shelf space. I'm gonna need a nice big 6 foot tall book shelf.

[blg]

I need a US 1st of Christine to complete my SK first editions.

Would like to pick up a S/L Skeleton Crew and Christine. Also a S/L Sec. of Dreams II, if it ever actually gets released.

Would like to find a S/L version of Ham on Rye and Factotum (Charles Bukowski)

[Sam]

I plan to collect more of the green stuff (money people!!) if I can find any lying around not belonging to anyone.