{"id":121,"date":"2009-08-20T14:11:08","date_gmt":"2009-08-20T14:11:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shadowdevil.com\/jp\/?p=121"},"modified":"2009-08-20T14:11:08","modified_gmt":"2009-08-20T14:11:08","slug":"hardback-collection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shadowdevil.com\/jp\/?p=121","title":{"rendered":"Hardback Collection"},"content":{"rendered":"

The hardback collection is coming along nicely. I’m waiting for this month’s credit card bill to arrive and – ouch – be paid before I start looking to buy further books to get toward completing my hard back collection of Bob Shaw’s work. <\/p>\n

There are only a few to get now (I must have miscounted in the previous post<\/a>): <\/p>\n

The Palace Of Eternity – one of Bob Shaw’s really early novels. Any copies of this one that have turned up in searches tend to be quite expensive. <\/p>\n

1 Million Tomorrows<\/a> – An early novel and hardly showing on book searches in hardback edition from Gollancz. <\/p>\n

The Two Timers – another early novel. Very few copies seem to be coming up for this book and it is quite expensive when it does appear. I have this in SF Book Club hardback.<\/p>\n

Tomorrow Lies In Ambush – short story collection, expensive in the UK but reasonable price outside the UK.  <\/p>\n

The Ceres Solution<\/a> – great novel from the early eighties. Quite a surprise that there aren’t more copies of this available. The only ones I’ve come across in book searches seem to be SF Book Club editions. <\/p>\n

A Better Mantrap<\/a> -  short story collection and very tricky to get. A few ex-library editions kicking about but I’m not going to bite for ex-library. And they are being sold at quite high prices. <\/p>\n

Galactic Tours – this one seems to be appearing more regularly at reasonable prices. <\/p>\n

It seems the two hardest of Bob Shaw’s books to get in hard back are among the first two I bought; A Better Mantrap and The Ceres Solution. Coincidentally, to date, the cheapest book I’ve bought and the most expensive book I’ve bought turn out to be one and the same: Other Days, Other Eyes<\/a>. The SF Book Club edition of that one was free as I got a full refund; it was advertised as the Gollancz edition. The Gollancz edition was bought from a shop in the Book town in the Borders of Scotland (can’t remember the name of the town) over the internet a short time later. <\/p>\n

There is also the fact that I have several of his works in hardback only. If I can find cheap enough editions I may get paperback copies of those works to complete my paperback collection. <\/p>\n

Once the hardbacks (and perhaps paperbacks) are completed there’s the daunting task of collecting the short stories not anthologised: which means dozens of magazines. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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