Sock Monkey's Collection

[Sock Monkey]

Thanks!

[daverob]

Very nice! Congratulations!

[Sock Monkey]

Here are the limitation pages for the God and Lords. Sorry for the sideways pictures. I thought I had this sorted out, but it struck again.

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[Sock Monkey]

I've been looking for these books for a few years now and I finally stumbled upon a matching numbered pair of God of the Razor and Lords of the Razor.

This is a slightly weird set from Subterranean Press as their were designed as companion pieces, hence the matching slipcase and art from Tim Truman, but the books themselves had a few notable differences: one was the binding as God is bound in leather while Lords is cloth bound; other was the limitation: God was available in a trade edition along with a 150-copy limited edition and no lettered edition, while Lords was not offered in a trade edition but was offered in a 500-copy limited edition and a 26-copy lettered edition. Suffice to say, that I felt kinda lucky to get a matching set at pretty much issued price.

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[Theli]

I think you did well Keith! Great additions!

[Brian861]

Thanks! Even at $40, I think you got a great deal. I really just got lucky on both this and Best of CD. Both were just low bids because it's all I could swing and just expected to be outbid.

Rereading my posts, I sound kinda like a braggart which was not my intention. I was excited to share the good deals with people who "get it". Non-collector friends and family just look at me like "yeah, it's a book. You shouldn't have paid more than twenty bucks..."

We totally feel ya, Keith! You are amongst friends (enablers) here . And a super accomplishment on getting those photos fixed! My neck was starting to get a little sore . I didn't think you sounded like a braggart at all! It's great to hear when fellow members score some awesome deals for their hobby.

As quoted from a member on the DT forum; "Any area of collecting only becomes really worth it when shared with like minded people"

[Sock Monkey]

Fantastic acquisitions...especially that Lebbon novella...I have the edition as well, and, you're right, it's a spendy book at regular aftermarket retail. I thought *I* got a deal a couple years ago on my copy, but I still paid twice your $20. Nice grab!

Thanks! Even at $40, I think you got a great deal. I really just got lucky on both this and Best of CD. Both were just low bids because it's all I could swing and just expected to be outbid.

Rereading my posts, I sound kinda like a braggart which was not my intention. I was excited to share the good deals with people who "get it". Non-collector friends and family just look at me like "yeah, it's a book. You shouldn't have paid more than twenty bucks..."

[Sock Monkey]

Thanks for the tip, Martin. I didn't the dust jackets on the site anymore, but maybe I'll shoot an email and keep my fingers crossed.

[RonClinton]

Fantastic acquisitions...especially that Lebbon novella...I have the edition as well, and, you're right, it's a spendy book at regular aftermarket retail. I thought *I* got a deal a couple years ago on my copy, but I still paid twice your $20. Nice grab!

[Martin]

The next book was also an Ebay win:

A copy of the trade HC of The Best of Cemetery Dance. I've been wanting a copy for a while and pretty gave up on the signed limited as it is usually WAY out of my price range. Even the trade HC fetches a pretty penny and finding one in good condition is hard. This was another good deal as I got it for $37 plus shipping. Unfortunately, when I arrived I noticed that the top front has a small ding, nothing major and nothing I couldn't live with, but it also got a bit of crinkling to the dust jacket, which kinda bummed me out. Don't know if I should make a big deal about it, though, especially for the price I got. Maybe I'll get lucky and I can find another dust jacket one day.

Anyways, I'm happy to have it on my shelf!

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They may have replacement dust jackets available still.

[Sock Monkey]

The next book was also an Ebay win:

A copy of the trade HC of The Best of Cemetery Dance. I've been wanting a copy for a while and pretty gave up on the signed limited as it is usually WAY out of my price range. Even the trade HC fetches a pretty penny and finding one in good condition is hard. This was another good deal as I got it for $37 plus shipping. Unfortunately, when I arrived I noticed that the top front has a small ding, nothing major and nothing I couldn't live with, but it also got a bit of crinkling to the dust jacket, which kinda bummed me out. Don't know if I should make a big deal about it, though, especially for the price I got. Maybe I'll get lucky and I can find another dust jacket one day.

Anyways, I'm happy to have it on my shelf!

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[Sock Monkey]

I also won this off Ebay:

The Reach of Children by Tim Lebbon, published by Humdrumming Press. This is notoriously difficult to track down as it originally supposed to be a 450-copy limited and 52-copy lettered production, but from what I've read, only the limited was produced and the run was an abbreviated 150 copies. Due to its rarity, copies for this book go for a pretty penny, copies on Ebay and Abe are currently listed for $125 on up. I got lucky and picked it up for under $20, which includes shipping from Canada.


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[Sock Monkey]

First: Yay! I got the pictures to rotate properly!!! It truly is the small things in life...

So below is the second book in Thunderstorm's Misteriosa Diablo line: Highways to Hell by Bryan Smith. This was only available if you purchased the "Bryan Smith Bundle" they offered that consisted of three other books by Smith: Soultaker, Christmas Eve on Haunted Hill, and Depraved 3 and was limited to only 36 copies.

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[Theli]

Looking good!

[bookworm 1]

Quite a few beautiful books there. Thunderstorm Press does put out great books but yeah the price is a bit much with the quantity of books that they put out. I have had to be really selective with my purchases the last year or so. Between job change and a kid in college and other expenses not much left for my book purchases.