06/24/05 FRI:
---Here today from Wheatland Press:

Shepard, Lucius WEAPONS OF MASS SEDUCTION: Film Reviews and Other Ravings, Wheatland ('05), (all about the Media's 21st-cemtury shuck and jive; mostly from F&SF and Electric Story), new 19.95

Utley, Steven THE BEASTS OF LOVE, Wheatland ('05), (stories; Lisa Tuttle intro), new 19.95

---And from Hippocampus:

Shiel, M.P. THE HOUSE OF SOUNDS and Others, Hippocampus ('05), 1st edn, (in Lovecraft's Library series; includes The Purple Cloud; Joshi [ed & intro]; 299 pages), new 15.00

06/23/05 THU:
---Here today from Gryphon Books (as opposed to Golden Gryphon), if I have it all straight:

Fearn, John Russell THE COSMIC CRUSADERS, Gryphon, 12/02, 1st US edn, (Golden Amazon #14), new 15.00
---DUEL WITH COLOSSUS, Gryphon, 1/05, 1st edn, (Golden Amazon #23), new $15
---DWELLERS IN DARKNESS, Gryphon, 2/04, 1st, (Golden Amazon #20), new 15.00
---KINGPIN PLANET, Gryphon, 2/04, 1st edn, (Golden Amazon #18), new 15.00
---LORDS OF CREATION, Gryphon, 1/05, 1st edn, (Golden Amazon #22), new 15.00
---PARASITE PLANET, Gryphon, 12/02, 1st US, (Golden Amazon #15), new 15.00
---WORLD IN DUPLICATE, Gryphon, 1/05, 1st US edn, (Golden Amazon #21), new 15.00
---WORLD IN REVERSE, Gryphon, 2/04, 1st edn, (Goldon Amazon #19), new 15.00

HARDBOILED #27/28, 12/01, Gryphon, (the hardest-hitting little magazine in the world!), new 20.00

James, Roy G. FROM THE PULPS INTO PAPERBACKS: A Reference Document, Gryphon, 2nd(1/95), (functional reference for the novice or avid collector), new 15.00

Thomas, Frank SHERLOCK HOLMES MYSTERY TALES, Gryphon, 3/01, 1st edn, (all new adventures; author's 11th Holmes book), new 16.00

Whittington, Harry MARRIED TO MURDER, Gryphon Crime Classic #23, 5/05, (orig: Phantom, 1951; a long-lost crime-classic), new 16.00
---ONE GOT AWAY, Gryphon Crime Classic #22, 5/05, (orig: Ace1955), new 16.00
---SATAN'S WIDOW, Gryphon Crime Classic #24, 5/05, (orig: Phantom '51), new $16
---VENGEFUL SINNER, Gryphon Crime Classic #25, 5/05, (orig: 1953), new 16.00

---Back in stock:

Fearn, John Russell EMPEROR OF MARS, Gryphon, 1/95, 1st US edn, (Clay Drew; Mars #1), new 15.00
---THE GENIAL DINOSAUR, Gryphon, 1/03, 1st US, (Dinosaur #2), new 15.00
---GODDESS OF MARS, Gryphon, 7/95, 1st edn, (Clay Drew; Mars #4), new 15.00
---THE GOLD OF AKADA, Gryphon, 1/98, 1st US edn, (Jungle Novel #1), new 15.00
---RED MEN OF MARS, Gryphon, 7/95, 1st edn, (Clay Drew; Mars #3), new 15.00
---A THING OF THE PAST, Gryphon, 1/03, 1st US, (Dinosaur #1), new 15.00
---WARRIOR OF MARS, Gryphon, 7/95, 1st US edn, (Clay Drew; Mars #2), new 15.00

GRYPHON DOUBLE NOVEL #7, 1/94, (HYPERPRISM & THE DIGITAL WRISTWATCH OF PHILIP K. DICK by Richard A. Lupoff) • ---#19, 1/99, (Doc Atlas in THE SATAN PLAGUE by Michael A. Black & The Nemesis in SATAN PLAGUE II by Gary Lovisi ), new each, 12.00

Kurland, Michael IMAGES CONCEITS & LOLLYGAGS: A Motley of Stories, Gryphon, 3/03, 1st edn, (stories; introduction by Richard A. Lupoff), new 20.00

Vaughan, Ralph E. SHERLOCK HOLMES AND THE TERROR OUT OF TIME, Gryphon, 1/02, 1st edn, (mix of Doyle and H.P. Lovecraft), new 15.00
---SHERLOCK HOLMES IN THE ADVENTURE OF THE ANCIENT GODS, Gryphon, 2nd(10/92), (Great Detective meets H.P. Lovecraft in America), new 5.95

---A few that were not available: Golden Amazon’s Diamond Quest, Lord of Atlantis & Twin of the Amazon by Fearn; Gryphon Double #13; and Science Fiction Detective Tales by Gary Lovisi.

06/21/05 TUE:
---Here today from Consortium, kind of a heterogeneous assortment:

Alcalay, Ammiel MEMORIES OF OUR FUTURE: Selected Essays 1982-1999, City Lights ('99), 1st, (forges unique intellectual and political path; mix of personal narrative, political commentary and literary criticism; surveys such diverse subjects as Mediterranean culture, Arabic literature, the destruction of Carthage, the Israeli/Palestinian conflict, and the war in Bosnia), new 17.95

DeMarinis, Rick APOCALYPSE THEN: Stories, Seven Stories '04, 1st edn, (unforgettable addition to author's growing body of work), new in dj 22.95

Dinh, Linh BLOOD AND SOAP: Stories, Seven Stories '04, 1st edn, (breakthrough collection of modern-day fables; on the vanguard of American fiction), new 16.00

Dorfman, Ariel MASCARA, Seven Stories '04, 1st pb edn, (taut, eerie novel; a postmodern version of Jekyll and Hyde; new afterword by J.M. Coetzee), new 8.95

Fowler, Christopher DEMONIZED, Serpent’s Tail '04, 1st, (stories; situations that become increasingly disturbing), new 15.00

Gifford, Barry AMERICAN FALLS: The Collected Short Stories, Seven Stories, 5/03, (a summer road-trip of a book: steamy, deiverse and a wild ride), new 12.95

Lewis, Heather NOTICE, Serpent’s Tail '04, 1st, (unrelenting meditatioin on psychic entrapment, chaos and pain; author’s last novel; Gurganus postscript), new 14.00

Plate, Peter FOGTOWN, Seven Stories '04, 1st edn, (San Francisco novel; muckraking, gritty take on the fellahin-strewn streets of Fogtown), new $13

Sennitt, Stephen CREATURES OF CLAY and Other Stories of the Macabre, Diagonal/Headpress '03, (author's best work exhumed from the small press underground), new 12.99

Thornburg, Newton CUTTER AND BONE, Serpent’s Tail, 2nd, (a whacking good thriller), new 14.00
---DREAMLAND, Serpent’s Tail '04, (murder, intrigue, sexual shenanigans, thrills), new $14
---TO DIE IN CALIFORNIA, Serpent’s Tail '02, (taut thriller; the dark side of the American dream, etched with pathos and a deep understanding of the infallibility of human nature), new 14.00

Toop, David EXOTICA: Fabricated Soundscapes in a Real World, Serpent’s Tail '99, (music/popular culture; brings together the words, images and sounds of an extraordinary moment in the culture; changes the way we hear), new 19.99
---HAUNTED WEATHER: Music, Silence and Memory, Serpent’s Tail, 2nd, (maps 21st century sound), new 20.00
---RAP ATTACK 3: African Rap to Global Hip Hop, Serpent’s Tail, 2nd, (the one classic standout), new 22.00

---Discount I can give on these is 30%.

---Email rec'd:

Dear Chris,
I have a query concerning the book THE BEST FROM UNIVERSE,
edited by Terry Carr. Does that collection include a story by Harlan
Ellison? I will look forward to your reply. Thanks.

---My reply:

The Best from Universe ed. Terry Carr (Doubleday 0-385-17512-4, Mar ’84 [Feb ’84], $11.95, 209pp, hc); Anthology of 9 stories from the “Universe” series, plus an index to vol.s 1-10.
• vii • Introduction • Terry Carr • in
• 1 • Good News from the Vatican • Robert Silverberg • ss Universe 1, ed. Terry Carr, Ace, 1971
• 10 • Nor Limestone Islands • R. A. Lafferty • ss Universe 1, ed. Terry Carr, Ace, 1971
• 23 • On the Downhill Side • Harlan Ellison • ss Universe 2, ed. Terry Carr, Ace, 1972
• 39 • Schrödinger’s Cat • Ursula K. Le Guin • ss Universe 5, ed. Terry Carr, Random House, 1974
• 47 • The Death of Dr. Island • Gene Wolfe • na Universe 3, ed. Terry Carr, Random House, 1973
• 101 • The Night Wind • Edgar Pangborn • nv Universe 5, ed. Terry Carr, Random House, 1974
• 118 • A Rite of Spring • Fritz Leiber • nv Universe 7, ed. Terry Carr, Doubleday, 1977
• 153 • Options • John Varley • nv Universe 9, ed. Terry Carr, Doubleday, 1979
• 181 • The Ugly Chickens • Howard Waldrop • nv Universe 10, ed. Terry Carr, Doubleday, 1980
• 204 • An Index to Universe Volumes 1-10 • Misc. Material • ix

(copied from http://www.locusmag.com/index/t3.html)

06/20/05 MON:
---Finally seem to have gotten past one particular obsession--making digital-photo covershots--at least for one particular bunch of books from the cellar--the ones that had been boxed away for at least twenty years and were located in one particular area of neglect. There are plenty more I want to get to, but at least I can slow it down a little bit now--and get to doing some things that a more responsible person than myself would not have to be told not to shirk. As it stands now Covershots 1 (on CD-R available by request) contains 1101 images. The Catalog Data CD-R has 932 and Covershots 2--in progress--1077. Covershots 2 contains some folders with catalogued books--outtakes from Catalog Data to make room for new arrivals there. I am still trying to work up a systematic approach but I can’t always keep track of every wrinkle in the fabric. I’m hoping this will give me a way to at least know what I have and where to find it--even if it’s not so great and maybe I shouldn’t be keeping it anyway. I would prefer to have it all out on open shelves rather than enclosed back inside boxes, but I’m glad I at least had the chance to check up on it again now. Maybe when I get everything under control (fat chance!) I can go back and embellish the information on the books rather than merely list the titles and where to find them.

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.

06/16/05 THU:
---Finally got orders to Wheatland Press, Earthling and Consortium--mentioned earlier--actually sent out. Another, to PenguinPutnam, I still haven’t pulled together yet, partly because I heard the Lovecraft Library of America volume--which a few people wanted--was already into a reprinting. I know there are lots of other titles from there I need to get, but I probably ought to hold off a bit longer on that one. A couple other publishers I should get to first.

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”)

06/10/05 FRI:
---Here today from Ash-Tree:

Ludlam, Harry THE COMING OF JONATHAN SMITH, Ash-Tree Classic Macabre '05, (1964 supernatural/detective novel; David G. Rowlands intro), new 24.00

Wakefield, H.R.THEY RETURN AT EVENING: A Collection of Ghost Stories, Ash-Tree, 2nd('05). (reprint of 1995 edition), new in dj 47.50

06/06/05 MON:
---Alluded to earlier, this augmentation of listing added to new arrivals list:

Drumm, Chris (compiler) COVERSHOTS 1, CD-R, (1100+ JPEG images of not-(yet)-catalogued books; also contains a directory folder with text files sorted by title and by place found), free with order by request--or separately for 3.00 postage & handling

---And with that CD-R I will also send the latest Catalog Data CD-R, which currently contains another 845 covershots, as well as a music compilation CD-R (if you wish). Not only that but I will give you a $3 credit toward a book order.

06/03/05 FRI:
---Here today from Stark House:

Packer, Vin DAMNATION OF ADAM BLESSING/ ALONE AT NIGHT: Two Complete Novels, Stark House, 5/05, 1st thus, (early 60s PB originals; Fawcett Gold Medal memoir & Jon L. Breen afterword--both reprints), new 19.95

---And from Necro:

Lee, Edward & John Pelan SHIFTERS, Necro, 4/05, SIGNED, (full of fun time gore...and monsters; reprint: Obsidian, '98), new 19.95

06/02/05 THU:
---Here today from PS Publishing:

POSTSCRIPTS #3, spr/05, PS, (Chaz Brenchley, Gene Wolfe, Jack Dann, Garry Kilworth, etc.), as new 10.00

05/31/05 TUE:
---Back in stock from Arkham House:

Cannon, Peter (ed) LOVECRAFT REMEMBERED, Arkham House '98, 1st edn, (invaluable trove of first-hand information on literary hero), new in dj 32.95
Lovecraft, H.P. AT THE MOUNTAINS OF MADNESS, Arkham House, corrected 9th, (2nd in 3-vol. set of definitive Lovecraft; James Turner intro), new in dj 27.95
---DAGON and Other Macabre Tales, Arkham House, corrected 9th printing, (third in 3-vol. set of definitive Lovecraft; Joshi [ed]), T.E.D. Klein intro), new / dj 27.95
---THE DUNWICH HORROR and Others, Arkham House, corrected 11th printing, (definitive texts; S.T. Joshi [ed]; Bloch intro; #1 of 3 vol. set), new in dj 27.95
---THE HORROR IN THE MUSEUM and Other Revisions, Arkham House, Corrected Fifth Printing, (supplementary collection; Joshi [ed]), new in dj 27.95
---MISCELLANEOUS WRITINGS, Arkham House ('95), 1st edn, new in dj 34.95

---Don’t see anything new on the horizon from them. I think

Thomas, Milt CAVE OF A THOUSAND TALES: The Life & Times of Hugh B. Cave, Arkham House '04, 1st edn, (biography; photos, bibliography), new / dj 33.95

was the latest (received here in July of 2004).

05/30/05 MON:
---I’ve been spending my Memorial Day and too many of the preceding dredging up memories of my own in the form of books from the cellar that had not seen daylight for years--some of them predating when I even began in bookselling more than two decades ago. Part of the blame goes to my digital camera which makes it so easy and inexpensive to make covershots of books to burn on CD-Rs. It gets a little habit-forming, especially when I discover a couple of the shelves cracking and sagging deeply, needing to be unburdened. But it has been fun, even if it has directed me away from things I should more be doing. Now that I have accrued over a thousand images and placed them in folders somewhat corresponding to the new boxes I am re-interring them in, I hope to now at least be able to have an idea of what all there is down there--and you can too. Not all of it is all that great, but some things have been fun to look at. Everything--good, bad and ugly--is on the CD-R now available for the asking: covershots 1. It will also sport a “directory” file with the complete list of titles and which folders they can be found in. These are yet uncatalogued books--if not uncataloguable--titles only, mainly offered for entertainment at this point, although I’m sure you could persuade me to dig any of them back up again, if something happens to strike an acquisitive nerve.

05/27/05 FRI:
---It took me a while longer to get through these than I would have liked, because there was a lot to browse around with. All are all bedsheet size (8.5 x 11 inches):

ASIMOV'S SF ADVENTURE MAGAZINE #1 to #4, four-issue run, vg+ the set, 25.00
COSMOS #1 to #4, four-issue run, 5/77 to 11/77, (edited by David G. Hartwell), bedsheet size, vg the four, $18
EMPIRE FOR THE SF WRITER, set of 11 issues, #7 to #25 (missing several), 6/76 to fall/81, generally vg the set, $20
EVENT HORIZON #1 TO #3, run of three issues, ? to sum/81, vg or better the set, $8
GALILEO, set of 13 issues, #1 to #15 (missing only #12; including a double issue), '76 to 11/79, bedsheet size magazine, generally vg the set, 40.00
NESFA HYMNAL: 2nd Edition, ('79), (ultimate filksong book), comb binding, g 5.00
NEW PATHWAYS, 10-issue set, #3 & #6 to #14, 7/86 to 5/89, generally vg or better 35.00
RIGEL SCIENCE FICTION #1 to #8, eight straight issues, sum/81 to sum/83, (wondrous, entertaining, somewhat mind-bending), bedsheet size magazine, generally vg the set, 25.00
STAR FLEET TECHNICAL MANUAL, Ballantine, 11/75, 1st, stiff plastic, g-vg 8.00
Trimble, Bjo STAR TREK CONCORDANCE, Ballantine, 10/76, 1st edn, g 8.00
VERTEX, 4/73 to 2/75, first 12 issues, bedsheet size magazine, generally vg the set, 50.00
VERTEX, 4/73, (first issue) • ---2/74, (Russ article, PKD interview), vg each, 4.50
WESTERFILK COLLECTION, Jordin Kare, 6/80, comb binding, g-vg 4.00

---Covershots of all these are in my current Catalog Data CD-R.

05/26/05 THU:
---Wouldn’t have known that Godzilla Vs. the Robot Monsters, a fairly recent paperback from Random House, was worth upwards of $20 if I hadn’t listed it on half.com, where I was the lowballer at that price--and promptly sold it.

05/25/05 WED:
---A batch of paperbacks catalogued for next package insert sheet:

Baen 72113 Anthony, Piers & Robert Kornwise THROUGH THE ICE, 4/92, (fantasy), vg+ 2.50
Berkley F1243 Ballard, J.G. THE VOICES OF TIME, 2nd(5/66), (stories), vg 5.00
Avon Eos 02021 Baxter, Stephen ICEBONES, 6/02, (daughter of Silverhair), new 6.99
Baen 72070 Blish, James CITIES IN FLIGHT Vol. 2, 7/91, (Earthman, Come Home & The Triumph of Time), vg 2.50
Tor 56476 Clarkson, John NEW LOTS, 10/00, (prime-time crime), vg-f 3.00
AvoNova 77483 Deitz, Tom ABOVE THE LOWER SKY, 2/96, (new age fantasy), vg 2.50
Warner Aspect 60633 Duane, Diane THE BOOK OF NIGHT WITH MOON, 3/99, (purr-fect novel), vg+ 3.00
Signet T3861 Farmer, Philip José FLESH, 5/69, (stud-god to a million adoring females), g-vg 3.50
Roc 45821 Giambastiani, Kurt R.A. THE YEAR THE CLOUD FELL, 3/01, (alternate history), vg-f 2.50
Avon Eos 80351 Goonan, Kathleen Ann LIGHT MUSIC, 7/03, (Nanotech Cycle #4), new 7.99
Avon Eos 52180 Hartwell & Cramer (eds) YEAR'S BEST FANTASY 3, 7/03, new 7.99
Avon Eos 52182 Hartwell & Cramer (eds) YEAR'S BEST FANTASY 4, 7/04, new 7.99
Avon Eos 06453 Hartwell, David G. & Kathryn Cramer (ed) YEAR'S BEST SF 8, 2nd, (2002 stories), new 7.99
Avon Eos 57559 Hartwell, David G. & Kathryn Cramer (ed) YEAR'S BEST SF 9, 3rd, (2003 stories), new 7.99
DAW 1178 Huff, Tanya THE SECOND HOMECOMING, 3/01, (Keeper's Chronicles #2), PR laid in, vg-f 3.00
Roc 45645 Johnson, Oliver THE LAST STAR AT DAWN, 4/01, (Lightbringer #3), vg-f 3.00
Ace F- 294 Kline, Otis Adelbert THE PORT OF PERIL, nd, (Grandon of Venus), vg-f 5.00
Baen 72125 Lackey, Mercedes & Josepha Sherman CASTLE OF DECEPTION, 7/92, (Bard's Tale fantasy), vg+ 2.00
Berkley X1596 Laumer, Keith ASSIGNMENT IN NOWHERE, 8/68, vg 3.50
Bal U 2216 Leiber, Fritz A PAIL OF AIR, ('64), (orig; stories), g-vg 3.50
Pocket Star 86809 Lustbader, Eric Van FLOATING CITY, 5/95, (A Nicholas Linnear Novel; far-east villainy), g-vg 1.50
Perma M3027 M'Instoch, J.T. WORLD OUT OF MIND, 11/55, (man created without emotions to master-mind the conquest of Earth), vg 5.00
Avon Eos 02006 McDevitt, Jack DEEPSIX, 3rd, (apocalypse for a doomed enigma), new 7.99
NEL 01126 Moorcock, Michael THE SLEEPING SORCERESS, 4/72, (Elric), vg+ 5.00
Ace pb 87319 Norton, Andre WARLOCK OF THE WITCH WORLD, nd, vg 2.00
Bal U 2174 Pohl, Frederik A PLAGUE OF PYTHONS, 9/65, (orig), g-vg 3.00
Bal 439K Pohl, Frederik DRUNKARD'S WALK, ('60), (orig; sharply satirical SF), vg 4.00
Bal F685 Pohl, Frederik THE ABOMINABLE EARTHMAN, ('63), (orig; stories), vg 3.50
Bal 206 Pohl, Frederik THE CASE AGAINST TOMORROW, nd, (orig; stories), review slip, vg+ 6.00
Bal 397K Pohl, Frederik THE MAN WHO ATE THE WORLD, ('60). (orig; stories), g-vg $3; vg 5.00
Del Rey 37197 Pohl, Frederik THE WORLD AT THE END OF TIME, 5th(6/93), g-vg 2.00
Baen 72027 Pournelle, Jerry (creator) WAR WORLD Vol II: Death's Head Rebelliion, 12/90, VG 2.00
Baen 72158 Pournelle, Jerry & S.M. Stirling PRINCE OF SPARTA, 3/93, (Falkenberg's Legion), vg 2.00
HarperTorch 79836 Powers, Tim DECLARE, 2nd, (spy fiction blend with otherworldly), new 7.99
HarperTorch 05690 Pratchett, Terry INTERESTING TIMES, 14th, (Discworld novel), new 6.99
HarperTorch 02063 Pratchett, Terry MOVING PICTURES, 6th, (A Novel of Discworld®), new 6.99
HarperTorch 81819 Pratchett, Terry THE TRUTH, 7th, (A Novel of Discworld®), new 6.99
DAW 1145 Radford, Irene GUARDIAN OF THE TRUST, 4/01, (Merlin's Descendants #2; Arthurian legend), vg-f 3.00
Tor 51672 Roessner, Michaela VANISHING POINT, 11/94, (dazzling speculation), vg 3.00
HarperTorch 79227 Russell, Sean THE ONE KINGDOM, 4th, (Swans' War #1), new 7.99
Tor 52577 Saberhagen, Fred A QUESTION OF TIME, 1/93, (dracula novel), vg 2.00
Lancer 74556 Santesson, Hans Stefan (ed) THE MIGHTY BARBARIANS, '69< (orig; Great Sword and Sorcery Heroes), g-vg 3.50
Avn V 2414 Shaw, Bob GROUND ZERO MAN, 9/71, (orig; doomsday device), vg $3; vg+ 4.00
Ace sp 62938 Shaw, Bob ONE MILLION TOMORROWS, ('70), (orig; the price of eternal life), vg+ 5.00
Ace sp 65050 Shaw, Bob THE PALACE OF ETERNITY, ('69), (orig; man's farthest future), g-vg 3.50
Ace sp H 79 Shaw, Bob THE TWO-TIMERS, ('68), (orig; parallel worlds), g-vg $3; vg-f 5.00
Lancer 72697 Shaw, Larry T. (ed) GREAT SCIENCE FICTION ADVENTURES, '63, g-vg $3; vg+ 5.00
Dell pb 1940 Sheckley, Robert DIMENSION OF MIRACLES, 6/68, (orig; Earth Hunt), vg $3; vg-f 5.00
Bantam A2003 Sheckley, Robert NOTIONS: UNLIMITED, 6/60, (orig; stories), g-vg 3.50
Bantam A1672 Sheckley, Robert PILGRIMAGE TO EARTH, 10/57, (orig; stories), g $2; g-vg 3.00
Bantam J2443 Sheckley, Robert SHARDS OF SPACE, 7/62, (orig; stories), g-vg $3; vg+ 5.00
Ball 01815 Sherred, T.L. ALIEN ISLAND, 1/70, (orig), g-vg $2; vg 3.00
Lancer 74573 Siegel, Martin AGENT OF ENTROPY, '69, (orig; GAG=Gestalt And Grok), vg+ 4.00
Ball 01601 Silverberg, Robert DIMENSION THIRTEEN, 5/69, (orig; stories), g-vg $3; vg 5.00
Belmont 591 Silverberg, Robert GODLING, GO HOME!, 6/64, (orig; stories), vg 5.00
Macfadden 165 Simak, Clifford D. ALL THE TRAPS OF EARTH, '63, (stories), vg+ 4.00
Perma Star 264 Simak, Clifford D. CITY, 12/53, (The year was 1990...), g-vg 4.00
Berkley G71 Simak, Clifford D. STRANGERS IN THE UNIVERSE, nd, (stories), vg+ 4.00
Belmont 584 Simak, Clifford D. WORLDS WITHOUT END, 4/64, (orig; three stories), vg+ 5.00
Bal 58 Siodmak, Curt RIDERS TO THE STARS, ('53), (orig; novel by Robert Smith based on Siodmak screenplay), g-vg $4; vg 7.00
Laurel 3160 Smith, Cordelia Titcomb (ed) GREAT SCIENCE FICTION STORIES, 2/64, (orig), vg-f 4.00
Monarch 464 Smith, George H. THE UNENDING NIGHT, 11/64, (orig; Runaway Mars), g-vg 4.00
Avon Eos 80783 Smith, Kristine CODE OF CONDUCT, 3rd, (fascinating alien culture), new 6.99
Pyramid G544 Sturgeon, Theodore VENUS PLUS X, 9/60, (orig; outrageous), g-vg 4.00
Avon Eos 54169 Traviss, Karen CITY OF PEARL, 3/04, (orig; vivid assortment of alien races; a stellar debut), new 6.99
Ace F- 293 Tubb, E.C. MOON BASE, ('64), (±Window On the Moon), vg-f 5.00
Del Rey 36076 Turtledove, Harry A WORLD OF DIFFERENCE, 5/90, (orig; first contact), g-vg 2.00
Spectra 56892 Zahn, Timothy CONQUERORS' PRIDE, 9/94, (Conquerors #1), vg 3.00
Tor 55877 Zelazny, Roger & Fred Saberhagen COILS, 3rd, (Ron Miller illus), vg-f 3.00

05/24/05 TUE:
---Yesterday’s blogmail I sent out with mainly just news about the few new books that had come in over the week. I don’t feel these emailings should contain too many of my vapid or insipid cogitations, as might a blog itself. That said, in this case I did have a few postings ready that I waited until the blogmail had been sent to add to the blog. Other times maybe I might delete them from the blogmail if they seem unlikely to be of a whole lot of interest--or if they go on for a too much length. At any rate, I will try to feel freer to toss stuff into the blog inself, as it occurs, even at risk of feeling a fool. But it won’t necessarily be in the blogmail.

05/23/05 MON:
---Here today from TTA:

INTERZONE #198, 5-6/05, (latest issue of slick UK magazine with brand new fiction, reviews, interviews, art, etc.), new 6.00

---Described by publisher:

Interzone 198 (May/June) has now been mailed out. This has more great front
cover art by Kenn Brown, with illustrations by John G. Williams, Chris Nurse,
Douglas Sirois, Glitchwerk, Stefan Olsen; fantastic new stories by Chris
Beckett, Dominic Green, Matthew Hughes, Christopher East, John Aegard, with Steve
Aylett on a highlight in the incredible career of cult author Jeff Lint; Rick
Kleffel interviews Kazuo Ishiguro; lots of book reviews including the return of
John Clute with a new regular column; Nick Lowe on films; Dave Langford's
Ansible Link; Mike O'Driscoll's comment column Night's Plutonian Shore, this time
on The Review Wars; and much more.

---From Tartarus:

WORMWOOD #4, spr/05, Tartarus, (Literature of the fantastic, supernatural and decadent; on Oates, Kubin, Margaret Irwin, Shiel, etc.), new 15.00

---And Golden Gryphon was kind enough to send a small supply of the freebies they add to direct purchasers of their books, so I can offer the same (to at least a few):

1. An audio CD of James Patrick Kelly narrating his Hugo-nominated story,
"Bernardo's House." I give this away with any Kelly book.
2. "A Backwards Glance," a 20-page booklet of John Kessel interviewing Gregory
Frost. The first 75 were signed by Frost and the artist Jason Van Hollander (I'm
almost out of the signed booklets, but I have plenty of unsigned). I give this away
with the Frost collection, ATTACK OF THE JAZZ GIANTS.
3. Bookplates for BUDAYEEN NIGHTS, signed by Barbara Hambly.

---I pulled one of the Frost booklets out of its envelope and it is of the unsigned variety, as I expect they all might be. If you want the signed, better check with Golden Gryphon themselves right away.

05/22/05 SUN:
---Getting a little ahead of my ability to get catalogued all the books that I have digital covershots for. The ongoing and neverending project of getting the cellar (with its vintage books like vintage wine awaiting its time for uncorking) under some modicum of control continues. Some of this entails reboxing books acquired at long-ago book sales, into more standardized and stronger boxes. For books that people have sent for me to sell on consignment that I have unconscionable sat on for way too long (although I do warn of that prospect), I better not rebox them--where they might not see the light of day again for another decade or three. So these sit around wanting me to catalog them (and my wife to get them out of the upstairs) and find them new homes, but meanwhile I have whipped them through the digital camera-tripod setup. Way too many of these are already in a new “covershots” folder than will fit on my regular Catalog Data CD-R--so for now it looks like I might have a CD-R of uncatalogued book cover JPEG snapshots that I could send out to people interested in seeing them--and perhaps goading me to break out from storage if they see something they want. These include non-SF vintage paperbacks, non-SF books, not-yet-catalogued books, magazine runs and sets, everything that comes out of the boxes I bring up--some common, some less so; some desirable, some maybe less so--just about all of them more fun to look at than I ought to keep to myself. If I were more ambitious I would have the images up on some website or another, but so far my ambitions have not reached that point. For now, being able to burn them on a CD-R, which I would think most people with computers--or even DVD players that can show JPEGs--could easily access. Probably not everyone (or anyone) will be interested--but if you are, let me know.

05/21/05 SAT:
---I hate it when booksellers are over-zealous in thinking up new schemes for how to sell their books. I try to keep myself from being that way too--but I can’t help it sometimes. I’ve figured out that I should make my discounts available to everyone that orders from me directly, instead of adhere to the fee-based Membership Discount Plan that has been a fixture with me for years. Now I am dickering with how to give people more of a say in what publishers I order from and when. At my present admittedly less ambitious bookselling pace (than when I was issuing regular printed-peper catalogs). it can be a long haul between orders to the many different publishers where I have accounts. I always think it won’t--or might not--be too long before I can send an order to any given publisher, but sometimes--or lots of the time--my thinking is wrong. A few people have given me the idea that if they have a credit amount in account I can try harder to get the books they have ordered. Basically my discount plan applies to books I have in stock--by no means a complete inventory of what I ought to have in stock (being more complete, perhaps, in what I ought not to have); but I don’t want to discourage special-orderers, because I like to know what people want, and because when I send orders to publishers it is nice to know that I have some of the books already spoken for. Anyway, without coming up with some actual scheme, I might mention that anyone with a credit in account--achieved by overpaying for books (which is maybe anathema)--will have more say-so in what books I can actually get (and in more timely fashion). This does not mean that someone who orders six books from six different publishers and prepays for them will necessarily get me to order from all six in a much timelier manner, but it will make me look at which order I can send out to a publisher will make the biggest dent in (or overwhelm) that credit. My computer has been doing a pretty good job, I think, of keeping track of peoples’ credits, so even if I’m slow and prone to lapses in memory myself, there shouldn’t be too much risk that in the long run you won’t get something for your money--and a pretty good deal too. This isn’t really a scheme to try to suck extra money, but to enable me to be more efficient in ordering from publishers. Well anyway, that is something I have been thinking about.