I hunt books for a living. First editions, signed copies, notable rarities. Owner of The Rare Book Sleuth. Member ABAA / ILAB.
Minneapolis, MN
Joined July 2016
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Stephen King asked for this one to go out of print.
Rage, published as Richard Bachman.
The US copy just sold. The yellow UK edition is still on my shelves.
Who wore it better?
Getting rear-ended means something different in this one.
J.G. Ballard’s Crash, 1973. First UK edition, in that ridiculous Bill Botten jacket.
Another one from the shelves.
Amelia Earhart’s autobiography came with a record of her voice tucked in the back. This copy still has it.
The Fun of It, 1932. First edition. Another one from the shelves.
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If you’ve never read Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, it’ll change you
Aldous Huxley took mescaline and wrote a book. Jim Morrison got a band name out of it.
The Doors of Perception, 1954. First edition. Another from the shelves.
In case You Can See Everything didn’t give you enough trust issues.
House of Leaves, signed twice by Danielewski as Johnny Truant, its unreliable narrator.
One from the shelves.
You’re gonna need a bigger boat.
Moby-Dick, illustrated by Rockwell Kent, 1930. One from the shelves.
“A pig, a rotten twisted seed…”
Hunter S. Thompson, signing a book for a friend.
One of my favorites on the shelves right now.
King Kong’s first appearance in book form, 1932. Before the movie.
Hell of a dust jacket.
ALT The dust jacket of the 1932 King Kong novelization, opened to show the back, spine and front. Kong fights a dinosaur on the back, peers through bars on the spine, and towers above New York holding a woman on the orange and green front cover.
Before the internet, you had to buy your bad ideas in paperback.
The Anarchist Cookbook, 1971.
First paperback edition.
“Once upon a midnight dreary…”
You know the line. Here it is on a page printed in 1845.
The author is listed as “Quarles”—Edgar Allan Poe’s pseudonym.
The first printing of The Raven, here in the original February 1845 issue of The American Review.
Still such a great jacket.
Ken Kesey’s One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, first UK edition, 1962.
His first novel, and still probably the book most people know him for.
There are books that just belong to fall.
Ray Bradbury’s Something Wicked This Way Comes is one of them.
First edition, first printing, 1962.
Perfect timing for the first day of autumn.
Stephen King: A Birthday List.
American and British first editions of Rage, a signed presentation copy of Dolan's Cadillac, and other signed and inscribed copies.
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