Nice! I love those covers!!!!
Nice! I love those covers!!!!
Sub Press used this artwork for their Books of Blood editions too I think. It’s Barker’s art right? Bad ass btw!
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Those BOB'S are kickass and righteous!
Really nice! Cool that they’re all flatsigned too.
Those are pretty cool, Peri!
You don't know my kind.....You don't my mind.....Dark necessities are part of my design.....
Haha... 6 x bloody thanks, Frank.
Some of Barker's most disturbing artwork. I remember you saying you weren't big on Barker, and I'm much more of a fan of his horror than dark fantasy style. I assume you've tried these, Steve? They're probably in my top short story collections of all time...
Cheers, Dez. Yeah, me too. Looks like they're done in pencil, very macabre.
Cheers, man. Yep, Barkers art and same as the Sub Press editions (which I sold to fund these - didn't really see the need to have two almost identical sets, and these had 5 extra sigs).
Cheers mate...
Thanks Alan, yeah, I was after a fully signed set for a few years, actually, and finally one come up at the right price...
Cheers, Brian...
Continuing with the Books of Blood theme. These are the true 1st editions, published by Sphere. I've been looking for fine copies of these for years now, slowly upgrading copies along the way. Now I finally have all six, in unread, near mint condition, and flatsigned by Barker.
Very nice. I remember these from back in the day. I think I have some on the shelf but not all six.
Nice dude! Congrats on completing the set. Man, his signature changed significantly over the years. The Books of Blood I have from you have both this one in your books and then another less legible version. No idea which are older or newer but would be interesting to find out.
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Oh, those W&N editions are really nice. Congrats, Peri.
How did they come to be flatsigned? Did Barker sign a limited number of sets on publication, or were they done after the fact?
There are a few editions of Books of Blood put there, and I have the SubPress set. But the W & N edition is very tempting, and I'd definitely pick up a flatsigned set if one came up. Very well done, sir.
“If you don't know what you want," the doorman said, "you end up with a lot you don't.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club
Looking for SubPress Lettered::
Angel's Game and Prisoner of Heaven (Zafon)
Ilium (Simmons)
Cheers, Paul. I always had the later pbs with the Barker artwork - only after I started collecting a few years back do I see these...
Cheers man. Yeah, it would be cool to see how Barkers signature changes over time - like King's - and how it could be pinned to a time period. My guess is that these are very early sigs, as his later sig got really large and angular and sometimes just a "CBarker". These were also done at a UK signing, so, likely sometime before Barker moved to the US (pre 1991).
Cheers HBJ... I'm not sure whether Barker signed any upon publication, because they were released over a period of three years. I bought these and the previous W&N set from the same UK seller who was getting out of collecting, and he said these Spheres were signed on the same day at a UK signing.
I also had the Sub Press set for a few years and then sold it recently to get the W&N set. Sub Press did a lovely job but it disappointed me that only one of the books was signed in that set (I know that's usual for multi book sets, but still..) and that they used the same W&N artwork. So, I thought I'd just grab the firsts all signed...
Those covers are really cool, too! You must have an awesome Barker collection!!!
Congrats on scoring the set!
You don't know my kind.....You don't my mind.....Dark necessities are part of my design.....
That’s an awesome set!!
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Little addition to the collection. Don't normally collect paraphernalia like this, but given it was Australian, I thought I better represent...
C O N G R A T S !!!
My Stephen King collection
http://www.thedarktower.org/palaver/...on-Stockerlone
Non-King collection
http://www.thedarktower.org/palaver/...rlone-Non-King
I like it!
I'm sure if there is intelligent life somewhere out there in the universe, they are wise enough to stay away from us.
And the people bowed and prayed, to the cell phone god they made...
That’s really cool, bud! How did you find something like that?
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The paraphernalia will get ya every time in the end
That's great, peri! Was he touring for DTIV?
HBJ
“If you don't know what you want," the doorman said, "you end up with a lot you don't.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club
Looking for SubPress Lettered::
Angel's Game and Prisoner of Heaven (Zafon)
Ilium (Simmons)
Cheers, Dez. It's getting there. I collect his 1st editions (and try to have them all flatsigned or inscribed) and a few S/L's of fave novels.
Cheers, Brian...
Yeah, thanks man. I think so, too...
Thanks, Priest!
Thanks Frank
Cheers, Steve...
Haha... It's my ID card... But seriously, it's from Leigh Blackmore - Aussie author / collector. He used to work at Dymocks and he attended.
That bloody paraphernalia... Can't trust it, sneaking into the cracks...
Great question, I have no idea. I'll see if I can find out...
While I'm not collecting ephemera, here's one I couldn't resist. A postcard from Robert Bloch to Bruce Walker (a Florida artist). I'm not sure how they came in contact with one another, but they regularly corresponded since the 1970s, I'm told (their correspondence is held in the Indiana University). In this postcard Bloch appears to be in a deeply reflective mood as his own health preoccupies him. The postage stamp is Jan 19, 1991, three years before his death.