After quite a while resting on my more or less laurels (past listings) it's time to get a move on and put up some more listings. My goal is five books every day from now on. This should be achievable, but not according to my past performance.

These books get listed in three places: on Amazon, Biblio, and Half. Books without ISBNs (older books) generally will not be listed on half. My prices might vary between these three places. Amazon and Half tell me competing prices, so I peg mine on them. Thus, if the lowest price for Deadly Percheron is $98 on Amazon, I might peg mine at $95. If it weren't my only copy maybe I'd be more reasonable. In fact, I think my Biblio listing is more reasonable.

Going forward (and possibly backward), links to titles of books will send you to the main Amazon listing. My listing will be somewhere amidst the other maybe 237 listings. This is where my photo of the book can be seen, which will probably be a better one than the one Amazon features. Half doesn't let me attach my own photo—at least I don't think it does. Photos are also at biblio. Lots of older listings still don't have photos. Nor updated prices.

I've been lousy at selling direct via email. Sorry about that, if you've tried me. Listing through the major portals keeps me honest—also prompt and reliable.

Friday, February 20, 2004

02/19/04 THU:
---Here today from Golden Gryphon:
Shepard, Lucius TWO TRAINS RUNNING, Golden Gryphon '04, 1st edn, (hobo stories; 112 pages), new in dj 22.95

---My reply to an inquiry:
“I am trying to get another print catalog out, but things keep coming up. I don't think I have added too many issues of IASFM and F&SF since the catalogs, but here are my current listings anyway:
FANTASY & SCIENCE FICTION, THE MAGAZINE OF…, 10/56, g 4.00
---8/66, 1/68, 4/68, 2/77, 3/77, 8/77, 11/77, 1/78, 8/78, 12/78, 1/82, 5/82, 5/85, 11/85, 12/85, 3/86, 8/86, 12/86, 2/87, 4/87, 5/87, 7/87, 8/87, 9/87, 11/87, 12/87, 2/88, 3/88, 4/88, 9/88, 12/88, 12/89, 2/90, 4/90, 6/90, 7/90, 8/90, 4/91, 9/99, 3/00, g or better (mostly better, much better) each, 1.50
---10/89, (224-page 40th Anniversary Issue) • ---10-11/91, (42nd Anniv. Issue; 240 pp) • ---10-11/93, (44th Anniversary Issue; 240 pp), vg or better each, 3.00
---1/85 to 8/85, eight straight issues, vg-f to f the set, 15.00
ASIMOV'S SCIENCE FICTION MAGAZINE, spr/77, (first issue), vg-f 4.00
---4/79, 10/79, 3/80, 5/80, 6/80, 7/80, 9/80, 11/80, 12/80, 9/82, 6/83, 7/83, 10/83, mid-12/83, 5/84, 8/84, 9/84, 10/84, 12/84, mid-12/84, 1/85, 9/85, 4/86, 3/87, 8/88, 9/88, 10/88, 11/88, mid-12/88, 12/88, 2/89, 5/89, 7/89, 8/89, 10/89, 11/89, mid-12/89, 2/90, 5/90, 6/90, 7/90. 9/90, 10/90, 12/90, mid-12/90, 1/91, 5/91, 12/95, 8/96, 8/98, 4/99, 4/00, 7/00, 8/00, 7/02, 8/02, vg or better each, 1.25 (or 6/$7)
---11/90 • ---10-11/01, (Double Issues), vg-f each, 2.50
---1989 issues, 12 of 13 issues (only 3/89 missing), vg+ to vg-f the set, 24.00”

---Another email inquiry:
“Dear Chris,
I am a R A Lafferty collector who is interested in purchasing your Lafferty booklets. I am looking to buy "Four Stories", "Slippery and Other Stories", "Man Who Made Models" and "Early Lafferty I and II". I would also be interested in seeing your latest catalogue to see if there are any other Lafferty booklets that I may have missed. Thank you.”

---My reply:
“Good to hear from you. I still have the booklets you want, except may Early Lafferty which United Mythologies published and I am about cleaned out of their RAL stuff now. FOUR STORIES had sold out, but I have a photocopied edition made up I could let you have for the original price ($2). Here are my current Lafferty listings. Hardcover (only the one right now):
Lafferty, R.A. SINDBAD: The 13th Voyage, Wildside '99, new no dj as issued 30.00

Misc. Softcovers:
Lafferty, R.A. ANNALS OF KLEPSIS, Wildside, 4/01, (1983 novel), new 14.95
---THE DEVIL IS DEAD, Wildside '99, (photoreprint of 1971 edn), new $15
---FOURTH MANSIONS, Wildside '99, (photoreprint of 1969 Ace edn), new 15.00
---GRASSHOPPERS & WILD HONEY (1928-1942): Chapters 1 & 2, Drumm Booklet #39, ('92), (begins2nd novel in the In A Green Tree tetralogy; the rest remains unpublished), early untrimmed edn $4; new 4.50
---HEART OF STONE, DEAR & Other Stories, Drumm Booklet #12, '83, 1st, new 2.00
---IRON TEARS: Fifteen Stories, Wildside, 4/00, (reprint of ‘92 collection), new 15.95
---IT'S DOWN THE SLIPPERY CELLAR STAIRS, Drumm Booklet #14, ('84), 1st, (essays, book reviews, fanzine columns, a speech, plus the title piece), new 2.00
---LAUGHING KELLY & Other Verses, Drumm, nd, (15 pages), small booklet, new $1
---THE MAN WHO MADE MODELS and Other Stories, Drumm Booklet #18, 9/84, 1st, (original stories; all are vintage Lafferty), new 2.50
---MY HEART LEAPS UP, Drumm Booklets #24, 26, 28, 29 & 35, 11/86-9/90, 1sts (except #24—photocopy reprint), (In a Green Tree #1), new each, 3.50
---the preceding, all five booklets, as a set 16.00
---NINE HUNDRED GRANDMOTHERS, Wildside, nd, (photoreprint; stories), new $15
---PAST MASTER, Wildside, nd, (photo-reprint), new 15.00
---SINDBAD: THE 13th VOYAGE, Broken Mirrors Press, 10/89, 1st, new 9.95
---SLIPPERY & OTHER STORIES, Drumm Booklet #19, 2/85, 1st, (origs), new 2.00
---SNAKE IN HIS BOSOM & OTHER STORIES, Drumm Booklet #13, '83, 1st, new $2
(---) Knight, Dan (compiler) AN R.A. LAFFERTY CHECKLIST (New Edition), Drumm Booklet #38, ('92), (improvement on out-of-date predecessor), new 3.50

Paperbacks (with some repeat listings from above):
Berkley S1724 Knight, Damon (ed) ORBIT 4, 8/69, (OA; Vinge, Lafferty, Ellison), vg+ 4.00
Star 39615 Lafferty, R.A. FOURTH MANSIONS, '77, vg 5.00
Drumm 12 Lafferty, R.A. HEART OF STONE, DEAR & OTHER STORIES, ('83), new 2.00
Drumm 11 Lafferty, R.A. LAUGHING KELLY & OTHER VERSES, reprint, new 1.00
Ace sp H-54 Lafferty, R.A. PAST MASTER, ('68), (orig), g-vg $3; vg 4.00
Drumm 19 Lafferty, R.A. SLIPPERY AND OTHER STORIES, 2/85, (originals), new 2.00
Drumm 13 Lafferty, R.A. SNAKE IN HIS BOSOM AND OTHER STORIES, ('83), new 2.00
Drumm 18 Lafferty, R.A. THE MAN WHO MADE MODELS & OTHERS, 9/84, new 2.50”

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