Desperately(We need an objective, independent sponsor to monitor us ).
But with those goals, I'm gonna be living vicariously through you this year!!
Desperately(We need an objective, independent sponsor to monitor us ).
But with those goals, I'm gonna be living vicariously through you this year!!
Since I have quite a limited collection (per american standards), my goals are:
- whatever french editions will be released, a french proof + french 1st printing : as far as I know, SLEEPING BEAUTIES french translation +THE BAZAR OF BAD DREAMS french mass paperback pocket book (whatever u call it) for the first french translation of "cookie jar"
- whatever french editions there iwill be : I know of at least one mag publixhing a FR translation of GUNS
- whatever movie press kit there is : i guess CASTLE ROCK at least
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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!
Collecting goals for 2018:
(1) Getting my Sphere Gunslinger proof signed
(2) Continuing to help all of you find your "wants" at decent prices
(3) Adding more remarques to my collection
(4) spend FAR FAR less in 2018 than I did in 2017!
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.
Yes, idea is to find him not in the signing event...VERY difficult to do. In last year, I got close to him once with a couple other people and he politely refused us all.
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.
I'm certainly hoping to be able to manage:
Outsiders S/L
The Stand (CD - isn't this slated for 2018?)
Anything else that I can afford and find. It looks to be a LEAN year for us, we seem to be getting more and more behind on bills.
I had an awesome collecting year in 2017 for both King and McCammon. For McCammon I picked up the original cover painting for Stinger plus the Founders’ copies of the Kinnell titles (full set) plus the lettered Swan Song. For King, highlights are inscribed “to Paul” first editions of The Shining and The Gunslinger (my total count is now 14), a mint first edition of Night Shift, and signed first editions of Skeleton Crew and Different Seasons (both with 80s signatures). Also, finished upgrading my dust jackets on the early books by getting a mint Firestarter (amazing how white they originally were!), Eyes of The Dragon and Pet Semetary - am not looking for any others. Plus the Silver Bullet paperweight - which took me years to find.
For 2018 - a copy of Ubris with an original King story tops my list...but for the first time in a long time nothing is really burning need. I expect I will pick up one or 2 more inscribed books as they have a way of turning up. Finally, I hope we get slipcases for Danse Macabre, Talisman and Skeleton Crew from Jeff. That is all.
Happy holidays and collecting everyone! Paul
Pics! Without pics it didn't happen.
2018 Collecting Goals:
Gwendy's S/L Lonely Road
The Plant S/L 1/200 (not vital, only if a set comes up and I have any money left 😀
Eyes of the Dragon Philtrum Red Numbered S/L 1/250
The Stand CD Artist and Remarqued Gift Edition
The Shining Folio Society S/L 1/110
Full Dark, No Stars BCE S/L 1/100
Desperation S/L 1/300 bookplate
Nightmares & Dreamscapes UK 1/1 (£15.99 dj price)
The Outsider UK 1/1
The Outsider US 1/1
Wanted:
Carrie PS Publishing Lettered ‘G’
Charlie the Choo Choo U.K. S/L #157
Dark Tower Portfolio #157
I only got one goal in 2018.....
The Stand S/L bible with coffin...
P2
Along with most everyone else(hopefully) The Outsider S/L
And all I want is a signed Misery, Dolores Claiborne, and possible Pet Sematary. That's not too much to ask is it?
Unsigned 1st edition of The Outsider
Signed 1st edition of The Outsider
S/L of The Outsider (if made)
G/E of The Outsider (if made)
Signed 1st edition paperback of The Storm of the Century
Signed 1st edition of Thinner
Signed 1st edition of IT
Find the missing volume in my DT SL set
FOR SALE OR TRADE
Dark Tower 7 Artist Edition n/a
The Waste Lands 1st Edition in Shrinkwrap $200
1984 Grant Gift Edition of The Talisman $400
Lisey's Story ARC $50
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WANTED
Signed 1st Edition of Storm of The Century (Paperback)
"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
Slipcases arrived and look awesome. I also knocked one of the hardest items off my list thanks to Dave - signed Part 3 of The Plant (lettered copy) so my set is done. I am having a few of the early slipcases redone in leather and then will post a picture. Asbestos Firestarter anyone? .
A little late to this party but still plenty of time left in the year to do some damage to my checking account.
1. NF/NF 1st/1st of Carrie and The Shining
2. VG/VG 2nd state Salem’s Lot
3. Three S/L’s
Looking for Mister Slaughter S/L #78
My goals are to keep moving forward in acquiring Fine edition SK books. Goals include:
1) F/F Signed UK Carrie
2) Fine set of the numbered The Plant
3) Fine copy of Sie
4) F/F US Different Seasons
5) F/F/F Folio Society The Shining
6) Fine slipcase for Nebel
7) Fine slipcase for Duddits
8) 'Salem's Lot Black Roman Numeral edition
9) Many F/F signed UK 1st editions
Getting even a couple of the above will be an accomplishment.
John