That looks really good!
Saffron: But we've been wed. Aren't we to become one flesh? Mal: Well, no, uh... We're still two fleshes here, and I think that your flesh ought to sleep somewhere else.
'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."
sumi - Apr 14, 2008 6:53:42 am PDT #5482 of 28344
Art Crawl!!!
Sparky1 - Apr 14, 2008 7:00:34 am PDT #5483 of 28344
Librarian Warlord
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.
Kathy A - Apr 14, 2008 7:02:24 am PDT #5484 of 28344
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
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.
Dana - Apr 14, 2008 7:38:33 am PDT #5485 of 28344
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
Laga - Apr 14, 2008 8:59:02 am PDT #5486 of 28344
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
Misty of Chincoteague
oh! I haven't thought about Marguerite Henry in years. She so fed my pre-teen horse love.
Atropa - Apr 14, 2008 9:32:29 am PDT #5487 of 28344
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
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.)
Toddson - Apr 14, 2008 9:35:12 am PDT #5488 of 28344
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
Considering Ray Bradbury and his fan base, that's probably not the oddest request he's gotten. (And Clovis does have lovely company manners.)
Aims - Apr 14, 2008 9:36:48 am PDT #5489 of 28344
Shit's all sorts of different now.
I want a first edition set of the Anne of Green Gables books.
And the British copies of HP.
Kathy A - Apr 14, 2008 9:38:04 am PDT #5490 of 28344
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
oh! I haven't thought about Marguerite Henry in years. She so fed my pre-teen horse love.
All the pre-KY Derby stuff on ABC this past few weeks has put her in my head. One of my favorite kids books is Born to Run, her book on harness racing. And Jeopardy just had a question on which horse breed was named after an American colonial farmer (or whatever he did), and I blurted out, "Justin Morgan Had a Horse!" Oh, and on my just-returned-from vacation, my mom and I were driving from NJ to FL, and in looking over the road atlas for VA, I noticed Chincoteague and Assateague on the coast.
Laga - Apr 14, 2008 9:42:52 am PDT #5491 of 28344
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
We drove through Assateague! Ponies stuck their heads in our windows. The mosqitoes were as big as helicopters, though.
We've been watching Young Indiana Jones Chronicles and last week he was at the Spanish Riding School and I prattled on about levades, courbettes and caprioles to my only mildly interested roommate.