After quite a while resting on my more or less laurels (past listings) it's time to get a move on and put up some more listings. My goal is five books every day from now on. This should be achievable, but not according to my past performance.

These books get listed in three places: on Amazon, Biblio, and Half. Books without ISBNs (older books) generally will not be listed on half. My prices might vary between these three places. Amazon and Half tell me competing prices, so I peg mine on them. Thus, if the lowest price for Deadly Percheron is $98 on Amazon, I might peg mine at $95. If it weren't my only copy maybe I'd be more reasonable. In fact, I think my Biblio listing is more reasonable.

Going forward (and possibly backward), links to titles of books will send you to the main Amazon listing. My listing will be somewhere amidst the other maybe 237 listings. This is where my photo of the book can be seen, which will probably be a better one than the one Amazon features. Half doesn't let me attach my own photo—at least I don't think it does. Photos are also at biblio. Lots of older listings still don't have photos. Nor updated prices.

I've been lousy at selling direct via email. Sorry about that, if you've tried me. Listing through the major portals keeps me honest—also prompt and reliable.

Monday, June 13, 2005

06/13/05 MON:
---Since I seem to be taking a sabbatical of sorts on ordering new books from publishers (among other things), I better get some of the used books that have been sitting around here for cataloguing taken care of:
misc. softcovers:
ALGOL/STARSHIP #24 to #36, sum/75 to fall/79, 11 of 12 straight issues (missing #31), (The Magazine About Science Fiction; slick semiprozine edited by Andrew Porter; lots of name authors), vg the set, $30
FANTASY & SCIENCE FICTION, THE MAGAZINE OF…, 2/80 to 6/82, 28 of 29 issues (missing only 11/80), (includes several issues with Stephen King stories), vg or better (difficult-to-remove address labels on most) the set, 50.00
FANTASY MONGERS 1, Ganley ('79), (Potter covers, Bloch interviewed by Schweitzer, de Camp on Lovecraft & Edmund Wilson; but mostly ads), vg 2.50
GALILEO, set of seven issues, #1 to #5 and nos. 9 & 10, '76 to 9/78, generally g-vg the set, 15.00
HEAVY METAL, 5, 6 &7/77, three issues, (illustrated fantasy magazine), g the set, $7
NICKELODEON #1 & #2, ('75-6), (both of the two exotic issues published; Tom Reamy-edited fanzine; includes photos of naked neo-pros and neo-fans; Cold Tonnage lists these at £20 each), vg+ as a pair, 25.00
RUNE, aut/74, (Ohio State University-published fanzine; Asimov interview), vg 4.00
TOADSTOOL WINE: A Collection of Fantasy and Horror From Six Independent Magazines, Ganley ('75), (sampler of material from Fantasy & Terror, Moonbroth, Space & Time, Weirdbook, Whispers and Wyrd; also: Ganley editorial; Leiber article; Jim Garrison art, etc.), vg 4.00
TWILIGHT ZONE MAGAZINE, collection of eight issues, 5/81 to 10/81 & 5 & 6/82, fr to vg (one or two have loose covers) the set, 20.00
WEIRDBOOK #13, (Tenth-Year Anniversary Issue; Cole, Bishop, Munn, Page, Bertin),g 2.50
---And:
hardcovers:
Lafferty, R.A., Harry Harrison, Alexei Panshin & Robert Silverberg FOUR FUTURES: Four Original Novellas of SF, Hawthorn ('71), 1st, (based on themes suggested by Isaac Asimov), vg+ in dj 18.00
McAleer, Neil ARTHUR C. CLARKE: The Authorized Biography, Contemporary Books ('92), (fascinating portrait; Bradbury foreword), vg-f in dj 18.00
misc. softcovers:
Geis, Richard RICHARD E. GEIS 2, ('72), (accumulated 44 pages of notes, letters), mimeod & side-stapled, vg 5.00
Geis, Richard STAR WHORES, self-mimeo, 1/80, one of 470 copies, vg 15.00
Geis, Richard THE CORPORATION STRIKES BACK!, self-mimeo, 1/81, vg+ 15.00
Morrow, James THE ETERNAL FOOTMAN, Harvest '00, (3rd in God's demise trilogy), vg-f 8.00
NICKELODEON #1, ('75), (fanzine editied by Tom Reamy; "the exotic sf & fantasy quarterly"; Anderson, Anthony, Gunn, Lafferty, Waldrop; nudes), vg-f 15.00
---Digital-photo covershots of the above have been taken and will be in the images folder on my Catalog Data CD-R (as “catalogued 6-13-05”)

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