{"id":157,"date":"2010-01-15T09:42:51","date_gmt":"2010-01-15T09:42:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shadowdevil.com\/jp\/?p=157"},"modified":"2010-01-15T09:42:51","modified_gmt":"2010-01-15T09:42:51","slug":"mantrap-caught","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shadowdevil.com\/jp\/?p=157","title":{"rendered":"Mantrap Caught"},"content":{"rendered":"

One of the more elusive Bob Shaw hardbacks has turned up at a reasonable price. It was a bit more than I hoped to have paid but I let a copy of 1 Million Tomorrows slip by because I thought it was too excessive; obviously someone else didn’t. A Better Mantrap<\/a> was the first Bob Shaw book I bought and still remains a favourite.<\/p>\n

Very few copies of the Gollancz hardback edition of A Better Mantrap<\/a> are appearing online for sale, those that do are quite excessive in price (in my humble wallet\u2019s opinion). There are a couple of Ex-Library editions being punted out for \u00a350, pretty good copies are three figures. <\/p>\n

But one appeared that is less than the expensive ones being advertised – the same books which I note have been available since I started searching for books to complete my Bob Shaw hardback collection and which no one has bought at their excessive pricing level – and I snapped it up. Ordered from America and taking a leisurely twenty one days to cross the Atlantic this edition isn’t the most I have paid for a Bob Shaw hardback but it’s getting there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

One of the more elusive Bob Shaw hardbacks has turned up at a reasonable price. It was a bit more than I hoped to have paid but I let a copy of 1 Million Tomorrows slip by because I thought it was too excessive; obviously someone else didn’t. A Better Mantrap was the first Bob […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7WoTV-2x","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowdevil.com\/jp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowdevil.com\/jp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowdevil.com\/jp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowdevil.com\/jp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowdevil.com\/jp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=157"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowdevil.com\/jp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowdevil.com\/jp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowdevil.com\/jp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowdevil.com\/jp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}