Just last week we offered first-edition copies of several Evan Tanner paperbacks. Tanner’s Tiger sold out almost immediately. (In fact we sold one more copy than we had, embarrassingly enough.)
If that’s the door, here’s the window: We have a good stock of the Subterranean Press first hardcover edition. Here’s the description from the eBay listing:
TANNER’S TIGER. The Subterranean Press first hardcover edition of Tanner #5. The trade edition, identical to the slipcased-numbered-limited edition except (duh) it’s not numbered, has no limitation sheet, and isn’t slipcased. But it’s signed, of course, and fresh out of the box, a fine example of Sub Press’s high standards. And the price is different, too; because LB got paid in copies, and because we still have a lot of them, we’re putting this on special at $9.99.
What we haven’t mentioned is that the cover illustration is by Phil Parks, and the book takes Tanner to his most exotic destination yet—Canada, where there’s a plot to blow up the Queen of England. Now you know.
While you’re climbing through that open window, you might want to look at what we’ve added. There’s a batch of one-copy-only anthologies with an LB story or intro, all priced at $9.99 or less. And, of course, the auction started last night, and the bidding’s barely gotten underway.
-David Trevor for LB
Hi Mr. Block
Not sure where to put this but since it concerns auctions and the above post does also, I guess this is as good a place as any.
I can cross another item off my bucket list. Yesterday my daughter brought up the mail and in it was an envelope that had your name as the sender. That’s the part I can cross off my bucket list in case you’re wondering.
Though I know it was a book I purchased from you on eBay, the “one story series”, I have not told her that….yet. Let her wonder
I have to say its been a long time since I’ve seen my teen, who will be all of 19 on Sunday, look at me with such curiosity and ask me with such genuine interest “What is Lawrence Block sending you Mom? Are you going to be reviewing for him too?”
The arrival of the envelope with your name as the sender and her genuine interest in something that happened in *my* life are both worth many times the small price paid for the book you listed on eBay:
http://tinyurl.com/85j7sjx
Thank you so very much for everything. Its so very difficult to amuse a teenager these days without a TV or game controller implanted somewhere on your person.
I am of course, so very proud she recognized your name.
Ila in Maine
Ah, thanks for sharing that, Ila. Good for you and good for her! (And I think my granddaughters were similarly impressed when Liam Neeson signed to play Matthew Scudder.)
LB
I wish I had something profound to write, but all my kids ever say about your books is “Don’t you already have [X] copies of that book?”
(Yes, I do, but this one is the standard signed/limited edition, and this other one is out-of-series, and this other other one is missing the limitation page. They just don’t understand.)
Sorry, that was directed at LB, not David.
Kids today. They just don’t get it.
LB