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.

Sunday, June 19, 2005

06/19/05 SUN:
---Some used books catalogued today:
hardcovers:
Cadigan, Pat DIRTY WORK, Ziesing '93, 1st edn, (stories), f in dj $25
Carr, Terry (ed) THE BEST FROM UNIVERSE, Doubleday '84, 1st edn, remainder speckling, vg-f in dj with small cover tear on back panel $10
Dozois, Gardner GEODESIC DREAMS: The Best Short Fiction of..., St. Martin's, 10/92, 1st edn, f in dj 20.00
Gregory, Stephen THE CORMORANT, Heinemann '86, 1st, (author’s first novel), vg-f in dj 25.00
Haldeman, Joe THE HEMINGWAY HOAX, Morrow '90, 1st edn, (novella), f in dj 10.00
Kress, Nancy BEGGARS IN SPAIN, AvoNova, 4/93, 1st, (Beggars #1; exp of Nebula Award winning novella), vg in dj 18.00
Kress, Nancy BRAIN ROSE, Morrow '90, 1st edn, vg-f in dj $20
Lee, Tanith DREAMS OF DARK AND LIGHT: The Great Short Fiction of..., Arkham House ('86), 1st edn, vg-f in dj 49.00
Resnick, Mike IVORY, Tor, 9/88, 1st edn, (A Legend of Past and Future), f in dj 15.00
Rice, Anne THE QUEEN OF THE DAMNED, Knopf '88, 2nd printing before publication, (The Vampire Chronicles #3), vg-f in dj 6.00
Roberts, Keith WINTERWOOD and Other Hauntings, Morrigan '89, 1st trade edn, (one story first published here; introduction by Robert Holdstock), f in dj 12.00
Sheckley, Robert THE COLLECTED SHORT FICTION: Books 1-5, Pulphouse ('91), #96 of 300 sets SIGNED by author as well as introducers (Zelazny, Resnick, Ellison, & Knight, but not Jeter--that I could find), BOXED, f no djs 275.00
Wolfe, Gene ENDANGERED SPECIES, Tor, 3/89, 1st edn, SIGNED, (stories), vg-f in dj 30.00
Wolfe, Gene NIGHTSIDE THE LONG SUN, Tor, 4/93, 1st edn, (The Book of the Long Sun #1; epic in the world of The Book of the New Sun), vg-f in dj 12.00
Wolfe, Gene SOLDIER OF ARETE, Tor, 8/89, 1st edn, SIGNED, (sequel to Soldier of the Mist), vg-f in dj $20
misc. softcovers:
AMAZING STORIES, 5/88, (Goulart, Finch, Miesel, Bethke, Friesner), f 2.00
ASIMOV'S SCIENCE FICTION MAGAZINE, 4/84 to 9/98, 60 selected issues, (veritable who's who of collectable authors represented; not a complete run, but the pick of issues), no subscription labels, vg-f to f the set, 115.00
FANTASY & SCIENCE FICTION, THE MAGAZINE OF…, 1/86 to 10/96, set of 51 selected issues, (includes anniversary, double issues, Stephen King issue, etc.), in especially nice condition, vg-f to f the set, 95.00
---You can see the covershots of these on my Catalog Data CD-R in the folders for F&SF and IASFM sets. The books can be seen in the folder Catalogued 6-20-05.

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