srboone's collection

[srboone]

Here's part one of my collection:
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remarqued The Passage; Exorcist/Legion; Deluxe ed. The Howling; The Big Book of Necon;Halloween: New Poems; Chap book for Burnt-out Priests...; Moonbane; Orangefield; Hallows; Eve; Halloweenland; Brides of the Impaler; Picking the Bones; Midnight Grinding; Hell Hollow (various trade HCs on the side)

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Hell Hollw; Futile Efforts: Bone Soup; Last Exit for the Lost; Bedbugs; Occassional Demons; British Invasion; The Secret Backs of Things; Four Rode Out; On Dangerous Ground; The Woods are Dark; 2nd copies of Moonbane and Halloweenland; Dark harvest; Shivers VI trade pb

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Halloweenland (2nd copy); Dark Harvest; Johnny Halloween; Old Flames; Elsewhere (2nd pr trade HC); 1st and 2nd print Blockcade Billy; Subterranean Press' Zodiac and Kraken; the slipcase for Zodiac that Zodiac won't fit back into (the reason I won't buy fron SP again.); issues of CD mag, Grave Tales, Atlantic and a nifty new Steven King comic; my chapbook binder

more to come...

[srboone]

part two: King Trade HCs/pbs
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Lisey's Story is actually a slipcased plastic covered HC with a sewn in bookmark. Kinda neat.

Books after Full Dark, No Stars: Riding The Bullet ARC; Storm of the Century trade pb; Cycle of the Werewolf trade pb; The Girl Who Loved Tome Gordon; Blaze; Night SHift (BCE); Blockade Billy/Morality; various book from Dark Moon grab bag.

King HCs needed: Carrie, Night Shift, Danse Macabre, Different Seasons, Skeleton Crew, Dreamcatcher (in the mail), The Green Mile, Rose Madder, On Writing, DT1-3, and probably others I can't remember.

More to come...

[folgersnyourcup]

Awesome collection! Where did you get that special copy of Lisey's Story??? I want it!

[jester05jk]

I have 2 versions of the Green Mile, the original 6 part individuals and then a collected gift edition in a slipcase still a pb tho. I'm content with them.

[frik51]

Impressive collection!
Love to see some individual books up close!

sk

[srboone]

Part three:

Let's not for get about these:
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I found Lisey's Story in a used book store in KCMO. It was still shrink wrapped. The cover is like those econ-clad books in my high school's library. The wrap around on the Slipcase is a heavy posterboard. It was published by Scribner's.

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more to come:

[srboone]

part four:

I have so many leather-bound Easton Press books that I could overload the system just with images. I have the 17-volume Thousand and One Nights; 20-vol complete Ernest Hemingway; 39-vol works of Shakespeare; 30+ volumes of The 100 Greatest Books Ever Written set; 6-vol William Faulkner set; 7-vol F.Scott Fitzgerald set; translations of The Kama Sutra/The Perfumed Garden/The Ananga-Ranga; illustrated 2-vol Gone with the Wind; 3-vol The Faeirie Queen; illustrated 4-vol Le Morte D'Arthur; Illustrated Fagles translations of The Illiad and The Odyssey; The Lottery; Norman Rockwell ilustrated Tom Sawyer; The Wind in the Willows; Planet of the Apes. I'm looking to start Masterpieces of Science Ficiton and Patrick O'Brian's Master and Commander set.

But of interest might be these, my signed editions:

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Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury; The Andromeda Strain by Michael Crichton; Wicked by Gregory Maguire; The Enchantress of Florence by Salman Rushdie; The Sword of Shannara by Terry Brooks; and The Red Badge of Courage, illustrated and signed by Mort Kuntsler.

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Last but not least forthcoming...

[peteOcha]

nice stuff!

If you could share some up close photos of The Big Book of Necon I'd be much obliged.

[frik51]

Very, very nice indeed.
Thanks for sharing!

sk

[srboone]

And last, but not least:

a few of the outstanding non-King reads I've experienced overt he last 30 years:

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Vols. 1-13 of Michael Moorcock's Eternal Champion cycle

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Eternal Champion 14-15; Moorcock HCs: The Dreamthief's Daughter, The Skrayling Tree, The White Wolf's Son, The Coming of the Terraphiles (Dr. Who), The Meta temporal Detective, Lunching with the Anti-Christ, The Warhound and the World's Pain, Blood, Fabulous Harbours, The War Amongst the Angels; And a VHS (unfortunately, the only format it's in) copy of the greatest movie you've never seen: Long Gone (1987)--consistently rated the best baseball movie ever made by those who have seen it. Check it out!

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Ancient Evenings, Norman Mailer; Ghost Story, Peter Straub; Winter's Tale, Mark Helprin; American Gods; Neil Gaiman; The Name of the Rose, Foucault's Pendulum, The Island of the Day Before, Baudilino, The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana, On Literature by Umberto Eco; Under Kilimanjaro, Ernest Hemingway, 20,000 Leagues Under the Seas, Jules Verne; The Greek Myths by Robert Graves.

And by request:

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The Old Dude's Ticker by Stephen King!

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That covers about 1/4 of my library; the rest consists of HCs and pbs of all genres and the encylopedic sets of various subjects that I've accumulated. Thanks for taking a look-see!

[peteOcha]

Thanks!

[ozmosis7]

Wish I had an impressive collection like that to share. Alas, many of my books have come from backstreet bookstores and the like. I know some of them are old, as they were difficult to find, but I doubt they are worth anything. Very nice collection though.

[srboone]

Thank-ee kindly, sai Ozmo! My collection started with used Michael Moorcock pbs from back alley bookstores and garage sales, so don't give up!

But I don't consider myself a collector by means--a pack rat maybe. If I were a collector, I wouldn't hold a poorly constructed slipcase against Subterranean Press (especially since they have many titles I'd love to have; ex. Embassytown by China Meiville--the next great SF novel!). If I were a collector, I'd buy traycased and boxed editions of works. (They look beautiful, but they clash with what I want my library to look like.)

Anyway, after visiting your website, you have some talents I wouldn't mind having (artistic, etc.) Keep up the great work!

[ozmosis7]

Thanks, I appreciate the website visit. I am trying out the whole online serial novel thing as well, with a Zombie theme--in some ways.

I have recently been offered a 2nd edition limited print signed copy of Joe Hill's Heart-Shaped Box (my current favorite book) for $80. That would certainly spruce up my collection. But alas the couch, fridge, and MB shower are on the way out, so as tempting as it is, I have to pass. Perhaps if I sold a kidney or something eh? :P

[srboone]

Just do it for more than a I-pad and I-pod!