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An Incredible Visit to Savers
They must have had a donation from someone who was cleaning
up after a person who really knew his books. And the person cleaning up had to have known nothing of books. So . . . 1. H. P. Lovecraft (& divers hands), The Shuttered Room and Other Pieces (Arkham House 1959), near fine condition (slight aging of pages, small water stain on a few early pages) in near fine dust jacket protected by mylar. Only 2500 copies printed. That raised my antennae! 2 . Malcolm Lowry, Under the Volcano, (Reynal & Hitchcock 1947) with not one but TWO of the highly scarce first issue dust jackets in mylar, with $3.00 price on flaps and "Advance critical acclaim" on rear cover of each. 3. Elizabeth George, The Evidence Exposed (Hodder & Stoughton 1999) signed first printing, fine in fine dust jacket in mylar. Then a Buchan, The Thirty-Nine Steps (Dent 1964) illustrated by Edward Ardizzone, with nice dust jacket in mylar, and Robert Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land (Putnam 1961), with price-clipped dust jacket, though I am not certain what its lineage is yet (regular printing or book club, since it differs significantly from a book club edition I already have). -- Francis A. Miniter Mesure is Medicine þauh þou muche ȝeor[n]e. Al nis not good to þe gost þat þe bodi lykeþ, Ne lyflode to þe licam þat leof is to þe soule. William Langland, The Vision of Piers Plowman Passus I, lines 33 - 35 |
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An Incredible Visit to Savers
On Sep 18, 8:51*pm, "Francis A. Miniter"
wrote: 1. * * *H. P. Lovecraft (& divers hands), The Shuttered *Room and Other Pieces (Arkham House 1959), near fine condition (slight aging of pages, small water stain on a few early pages) in near fine dust jacket protected by mylar. *Only 2500 copies printed. Wow! Quite rare--cheapest copy on bookfinder is $150, and it doesn't have the dust jacket. (Add $100 for the jacket...) Arkham House always printed small runs of their books. 3. * * *Elizabeth George, The Evidence Exposed (Hodder & Stoughton 1999) signed first printing, fine in fine dust jacket in mylar. This is the original version of what was published in the U.S. as I, RICHARD, her only short story collection to date. The later version has more stories, but the British has the first incarnation of the title story, which was rewritten (as "Exposed") for the American edition. |
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