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.

Saturday, January 31, 2009

nesfa books ordered

I haven't been ordering from publishers much lately, especially since my printed-paper catalog sending ground to a halt. A few standing orders are still erect, but not by much. I did manage to send a small one out to NESFA Press yesterday, however, catching up on titles they have published since my last order a couple years ago. There are other publishers I wish I were still getting more regularly -- and maybe I will -- but a lot of what I might have been stocking in the past is probably best to left to Amazon to sell.

Friday, January 16, 2009

books cataloged lately

Here are some listings of used books compiled since last such post:
  • Ace pb 33700 Norton, Andre HIGH SORCERY, ('70), (PBO; Warlocks of other worlds -- or scientists of times unknown), vg+ 3.50
  • DAW 5 Tubb, E.C. MAYENNE, 2nd, (A Dumarest space novel), vg 3.50
  • Bal 540 Russell, Ray SARDONICUS and Other Stories, ('61), (PBO; Gothic horror and monstrous deeds; movie tie), g-vg 8.00
  • Bal 308K Pohl, Frederik (ed) STAR SCIENCE FICTION No. 5, ('59), (PBO; nine top original stories), vg $3
  • Bal 353K Pohl, Frederik (ed) STAR SCIENCE FICTION No. 6, ('59), (PBO; OA), g-vg $2
  • Avon 18846 Zelazny, Roger THE DOORS OF HIS FACE, THE LAMPS OF HIS MOUTH and Other Stories, 3rd, (Title story, winner of the Nebula Award), vg+ 3.00
  • DAW 207 Goulart, Ron A WHIFF OF MADNESS, 8/76, (PBO; In the Barnum System -- the whackiest of all the colonized galazy), g-vg 2.50
  • Berkley F1169 Thomas, Theodore L. & Kate Wilhelm THE CLONE, 12/65, (PBO; It moved through houses and stores and spread into the streets, absorbing all that lay in its path -- nothing could stop it...), vg 3.00
  • Ace pb 79559 Smeds, Dave THE SCHEME OF DRAGONS, 3/89, (PBO; astonishing sequel to The Sorcery Within), vg-f 2.50
  • Bal U 2176 Pohl, Frederik & Jack Williamson STARCHILD, 11/65, (PBO; Starchild #2; A magnificent dream of man's future), vg 2.50
  • Ace G- 723 Norton, Andre STAR HUNTER & VOODOO PLANET, nd, vg-f 2.50
  • DAW 34 Trimble, Louis THE WANDERING VARIABLES, 12/72, (PBO; They played with a whole world's variables; Interplanetary hide-and-seek), vg+ 2.00
  • Baen 65411 Niven, Larry (creator) THE MAN-KZIN WARS, 3rd(12/88), (with Poul Anderson & Dean Ing; Known Space is aflame with war!), vg+ 2.50
  • Baen 69811 Pournelle, Jerry PRINCE OF MERCENARIES, 3/89, (PBO; a novel of Falkenberg's Legion), vg+ 2.50
  • Ace pb 94252 Norton, Andre YEAR OF THE UNICORN, nd, (the Were-Riders wore the bodies of men, but they were not humankind), vg+ 2.50
  • Ace pb 91170 Bradley, Marion Zimmer THE WORLD WRECKERS, ('71), (PBO; a Darkover novel; Under the red sun, a galaxy's telepaths face finality), vg+ $3
  • Ace pb 30590 Trimble, Louis & Jacquelyn Trimble GUARDIANS OF THE GATE, ('72), (PBO; They knew the legend -- they were to meet the alien reality), vg 2.00
  • Del Rey 33173 Cole, Allan & Chris Bunch REVENGE OF THE DAMNED, 2/89, (PBO; STEN Adventure #5), vg+ 3.00
  • Ball 02905 Swann, Thomas Burnett WOLFWINTER, 11/72, (PBO; world of fauns, sibyls, dryads and the ancient, powerful Gods...), vg+ 3.00
  • Berkley 02476 Transue, Jacob TWILIGHT OF THE BASILISKS, 12/73, (PBO), vg+ 2.00
  • Baen 69833 Niven, Larry (creator) MAN-KZIN WARS II, 8/89, (PBO; Known Space is again aflame with war; Dean Ing, Jerry Pournelle & S.M. Stirling; Niven intro), g $2; vg-f 3.00
  • DAW 4 Van Vogt, A.E. THE BOOK OF..., ('72), (PBO), vg+ 3.00
  • Dell pb 1940 Sheckley, Robert DIMENSION OF MIRACLES, 6/68, (PBO; wild metaphysical farce that presages Douglas Adams), vg+ 4.00
  • Laser 36 De Weese, Gene JEREMY CASE, 7/76, (PBO; No one dared to explain the terrifying power that he suddenly possessed), vg+ 4.00
  • Laser 40 Hoskins, Robert MASTER OF THE STARS, 9/76, (PBO; bitter hatred of his home world and longing for revenge on its rulers), vg+ 3.00
  • Laser 38 Sky, Kathleen ICE PRISON, 8/76, (PBO; the entire colony was being terrorized by a fourteen-year-old girl), vg+ 3.50
  • Laser 35 Sohl, Jerry I, ALEPPO, 7/76, (PBO; How could anyone capture characters from dreams -- mere figments of the imagination?), vg+ 4.00
  • Laser 39 Funnell, Augustine BRANDYJACK, 8/76, (PBO; if he was to leave Earth, he must first travel across it, a journey far more challenging than the voyage through space), vg+ 3.00
  • Laser 37 Bone, J.F. THE MEDDLERS, 8/76, (PBO; if Warren is to defeat those who would destroy his world, he too must destroy -- a life-style), vg+ 4.00
  • Avon V 2300 Ellison, Harlan THE BEAST THAT SHOUTED LOVE AT THE HEART OF THE WORLD, 7/69, (PBO; stories), g-vg $3; vg-f 8.50
  • Ace Double 89250 Bradley, Marion Zimmer / Rackham, John THE WINDS OF DARKOVER / THE ANYTHING TREE, ('70), (PBOs; Whose mind directed his thoughts, whose anger his sword? / On Jensen's World, the Tree is master and man the servant), vg+ 4.00
  • Ace Double 37250 Bradley, Marion Zimmer / Rackham, John THE BRASS DRAGON / IPOMOEA, ('69), (PBOs; What he'd forgotten could change the world! / Science is never neutral -- and neither are the stars!), vg $2; vg-f 3.00
  • Ace pb 86180 Tubb, E.C. VERUCHIA, 6/73, (PBO; Dumarest; Their choice: live in tyranny or rule Dradea -- with death a part of the bargain), vg+ 2.50
  • Guiley, Rosemary Ellen ENCYCLOPEDIA OF THE STRANGE, MYSTICAL, & UNEXPLAINED, Gramercy, 2nd, (Over 500 Entries in A-Z format; A browser's delight, offering a wealth of stories, theories, histories, and explanation behind the mystical tradition; Marion Zimmer Bradley intro), as new in dj 6.00
---10% discount on all the above, as usual.

Friday, January 9, 2009

new arrival from Midnight House!!!

Here today:
Brennan, Joseph Payne THE FEASTER FROM AFAR, Midnight House '08, one of 500 numbered copies, (The Selected Weird Tales, Volume One; Dziemianowicz & Pelan [eds]), new in dj 45.00
---Looks like Darkside has let their domain name lapse to the spamsiters, so no publisher link at least for now. Discount still 20%.

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