Oh, cool! I'd like to read that.
'Our Mrs. Reynolds'
Literary Buffistas 3: Don't Parse the Blurb, Dear.
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
Oh, neat!
That looks really good!
I go to the rare book room to ogle the 1st edition hardback of Dark Carnival (the original title of SWTWC). Someday it will be mine. Someday.
There's a copy on alibris for about $800...ijs. Not signed, though. There are copies there also that look to be in much better shape than the Powell's copy, and there is at least one copy there that is not only first edition, but first printing.
Signed, It took me a while, but I found my first edition, first printing (with the mistake) of Bemelmans' Madeline, and will someday have Stuart Little, too.
I'd love to find/be able to afford the first editions of the entire set of Little House books.
Oh, and Misty of Chincoteague, too.
Misty of Chincoteague
oh! I haven't thought about Marguerite Henry in years. She so fed my pre-teen horse love.
There's a copy on alibris for about $800...ijs. Not signed, though. There are copies there also that look to be in much better shape than the Powell's copy, and there is at least one copy there that is not only first edition, but first printing.
twitches gently
See, I don't need a signed first edition, because the copy that is the most important to me IS signed: the version that was released when the movie came out, that I won as a prize at the first SF/F con my dad ever took me to. But I DO want a first edition, some day.
(Not only is my childhood copy of SWTWC signed, but I recently found the photos I have of Ray Bradbury holding Clovis. Yes, I met one of my writing idols and asked him to pose for a photo with my fanged bunny. He didn't bat an eye at the request.)
Considering Ray Bradbury and his fan base, that's probably not the oddest request he's gotten. (And Clovis does have lovely company manners.)
I want a first edition set of the Anne of Green Gables books.
And the British copies of HP.