Email rec'd:
I just ordered The Man Who Made Models and Other Stories and Slippery and Other Stories from you via Half.com. They arrived in the mail yesterday, and I am enjoying them immensely. A million thanks!

Reply:
Thanks, Kevin! It's great to hear. The production standards were a bit "shoddy" (per Dozois) to be sure, I know, but hopefully the content is there and it is readable (albeit maybe with magnifying glass). I'll try to get my other Lafferty booklets listed again too, but that might require some assemblage. Anyway, it's nice to hear from someone actually reading some of that wild-and-wooly stuff.

In light of my frequent unresponsiveness to orders from my Catalog Listings, I've decided to retire these listings -- they are so old and outdated anyway, although I do delete things when they sell, and sometimes add to or revise listings. This is at least for active ordering (passive ordering?).

The orders that come in through my listings on Amazon, Half and Biblio keep me pretty busy as it is. I'll try to get as much of my inventory transferred over to these venues I as can manage. And I will be revising the headings of the different catalog-data files to reflect this change.

I apologize to those who sent me orders and never got any answer. I do feel bad about it.

Not much new stuff direct from publishers from me any more; just a few straggling things where my stop standing orders message was missed. This here now:

SPACE AND TIME #117, fall/12, (Michael Penncavage, Tim W. Burke, Amanda Pillar, etc.), new 5.00

I'm thinking about abandoning my on-line catalog in favor of listing things through second-parties (Amazon, Half.com and Biblio.com). Too many of my listings are way out of date, and I've proven to be totally terrible at dealing with things coming in via email. I will leave the listings up, and continue editing them, but don't be surprised if I fail to fill orders from them.

books listed

I was surprised to notice I had a bunch of books added to the catalog that I have yet to publish. These listings go back a ways. I've been seriously remiss in getting things listed. Most of them have been in my Catalog Data but not yet published in this blog (which probably is more likely to show up in searches). I have a somewhat improved set-up here now that I hope will spur me to get back to work. We'll see about that. There's a lot of work to do. For now, though, here are these:

Blackwood, Algernon JIMBO / THE EDUCATION OF UNCLE PAUL: Two Complete Novels, Stark House Supernatural Classics, 1/07, 1st edn thus, (Mike Ashley intro), ex-libr else vg+ 8.00 (ISBN: 1933586133)

Boyer, Richard L. THE FURTHER ADVENTURES OF SHERLOCK HOLMES: The Giant Rat of Sumatra, Titan, 3/11, 1st Titan edn, (©1976, 2011; faithful to the original Arthur Conan Doyle style, and keeps you on the edge of your seat), vg-f 6.00 [ISBN: 9781848568600]

Bradbury, Ray GREEN SHADOWS, WHITE WHALE, Knopf '92, 1st edn, vg-f in dj 16.00 (ISBN: 0394578783)

Breuer, Miles J. THE MAN WITH THE STRANGE HEAD and Other Early Science Fiction Stories, Bison/University of Nebraska ('08), (reprints stories from Amazing Stories and other pulp magazines of the 1920s & 1930s; Michael R. Page intro; bibliography; 431 pages), vg-f 12.00 (ISBN: 9780803215870)

Cossé, Laurence A NOVEL BOOKSTORE, Europa, 3rd('10), (enthralling fable for lovers of good books and a heartfelt tribute to fine bookselling; translated from the French by Alison Anderson), vg-f 6.00 [ISBN: 9781933372822]

Eddison, E.R. THE WORM OUROBOROS, Dover ('06). (photo-reprint of 1922 Cape edn; ranks as the Iliad of heroic fantasy; Keith Henderson illus), vg-f 6.00 [ISBN: 9780486447407]

Gardiner, Philip THE BOND CODE: The Dark World of Ian Fleming and James Bond, New Page/Career Press ('08), (remarkable story of how Fleming's association with the occult world led him to create a masterful series of clever clues, ciphers, and codes within his books; notes, bibliography, index), vg-f 12.00 (ISBN: 9781601630049)

Gogol, Nikolai THE COLLECTED TALES, Everyman's Library/Knopf. Third Printing (US), (translated by Richar Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky; 425 pages), vg-f in dj 10.00 [ISBN: 9780307269690]

Kuttner, Henry THE LAST MIMZY: Stories, Del Rey '07, (originally published as The Best of Henry Kuttner in 1975; title story is movie tie-in; Ray Bradbury intro), vg-f 8.00 [ISBN: 9780345497550]

Moore, C.L. BLACK GOD'S KISS, Planet Stories/Paizo '07, 1st printing, (Jirel of Joiry stories, first published in Weird Tales in 1934; Suzy McKee Charnas intro), vg-f 10.00 [ISBN: 9781601250452]

Moore, C.L. NORTHWEST OF EARTH: The Complete Northwest Smith, Planet Stories/Paizo '08, 1st, (science fiction's original outlaw!; C.J. Cherryh intro), vg-f 12.50 [ISBN: 9781601250810]

Unibook no # Neville, Kris INVADERS ON THE MOON, nd('74?), (An intriguing novel of the very possible; The Malignant Satellite), g-vg 2.50

Palmer, Christopher PHILIP K. DICK: Exhilaration and Terror of the Postmodern, Liverpool University Press '03, 1st (hc variant), (discusses Dick's work from historical and formal points of view), vg-f in dj 25.00 [ISBN: 0853236186]

Murray, Andy INTO THE UNKNOWN: The Fantastic Life of Nigel Kneale, Headpress '08, (the first book to examine the work of a key figure in popular culture; Quatermass was but the tip of the iceberg), vg-f 25.00 (ISBN: 1900486504)

Riggs, Ransom THE SHERLOCK HOLMES HANDBOOK: The Methods and Mysteries of the World's Greatest Detective, Quirk ('09), 1st, (full of fascinating how-to skills and evocative illustrations), vg-f no dj as issued (decorative boards) 10.00 [ISBN: 9781594744297]

Pocket 77726 Russell, John Robert SAR, 5/74, (PBO; A fantastic novel of space-age barbarianism and raw adventure; Earth - after civilization's collapse), vg 2.00 (isbn: 0671777262)

Sims, Maynard FLAME & Other Enigmatic Tales, Sarob '12, one of 170 numbered copies, (Six darkly enigmatic and chilling stories), new no dj as issued (pictorial boards) 39.50 (isbn: 9782953770636) [discount: 15%]

Stoker, Dacre & Ian Holt DRACULA: The Un-Dead, Dutton, 10/09, 1st, (The Sequel to the Original Classic), vg-f in dj 6.00

Vachss, Andrew HAIKU, Vintage Crime, 11/10, 1st Vintage Crime/Black Lizard edn, (outcasts try to save schizophrenic's library), vg-f 6.00 [isbn: 9780307475282]

Van Vogt, A.E. TRANSGALACTIC, Baen, 10/06, 1st edn thus, (for the first time, the entire Clane saga, told in the two novels Empire of the Atom and The Wizard of Linn; also includes Mission to the Stars, plus the two Ezwal stories in the War Against the Rull series, chronicling the struggle of one man to convince a feral but intelligent species to join with humanity in the battle against a mutual enemy; Eric Flint & David Drake [eds]), vg-f 15.00 [ISBN: 9781416520894]

Washington, Peter (ed) GHOST STORIES, Everyman's Pocket Classics '08, (chilling classic tales), f in dj 8.00

Penguin 1931 White, T.H. THE GOSHAWK, '79, (Penguin Modern Classics edn; masterful account of the author's training of a hawk; strangely like some of the 18th-century stories of seduction), g (ex-libr with plasticized cover, text clean and eminently readable) 2.00 [isbn 0140019316]

Bantam N7234 Wilhelm, Kate ABYSS: Two Novellas, 11/73, (A mind-shock journey through an alternate universe), vg 3.50 (isbn: 055307234X)

Wright, Ernest Vincent GADSBY, Ramble House '10, Fourth Ramble House Edition (POD), (reprint of 1939 novel written entirely without the letter 'e'), vg-f 10.00

I am still here

Once again, long time, no posts. That was not my intention by any means. Force of inertia or something, I guess. I don't know. In an effort to bring myself back into line, I've de-activated my Facebook account to try to free up some time to maybe get some more books listed (and re-listed). Also maybe get to some of those egregiously ignored emails answered.
Meanwhile, I've put all my catalog data in a single Google Document folder, which I now I see can be shared. The link: https://docs.google.com/folder/d/0B2EibLysF4dKNURxUTM2SVZpLTQ/edit. I signed out and tried it myself, and it looks pretty slick, at least for me.

Another new arrival belatedly cataloged:

WORMWOOD: Literature of the fantastic, supernatural and decadent #17, aut/11, Tarturus, (on Lovecraft, d'Annunzio, Hodder, Bramah, Armour; An Overview of American Decadence; more), new 15.00

book cataloged

Here's another book I neglected to catalog when if first came in:

Keene, Day DEAD DOLLS DON'T TALK / HUNT THE KILLER / TOO HOT TO HOLD: Three Complete Thrillers, Stark House Mystery Classics, 1st thus, 8/11, (pb originals first published in 1951 & 1959; David Laurence Wilson intro), new 23.95

---I've canceled my standing order with Stark House (too many cheaper copies on Amazon), but not without a degree of regret. The link above is to the publisher's description, here's a link to my covershot of the original pb edition of Dead Girls Don't Talk. Also, I see that I have one for Too Hot to Hold as well.