srboone's collection

[Grant Wootton]

Oh, come on now! I like John Williamson! Besides, Mr. Woot, You could end up being one of these:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O9f0QOh5KAU

hahahahahahaha --- too late, already there !!!!!!

No, if you want close Aussie music (not clapped out country crap, dammit) here's the tonic for what ails ya :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NSowZcvoqr4

[peteOcha]

Wonderful dogs Squire! Lets just hope that they don't develop a taste for books...

[Tito_Villa]

Great dogs, i can't tell you how much happiness you will get from them. Getting a dog was the easiest decision i have ever made! If you want any help in training them pm me.

[srboone]

Very nice, Squire. The first time anyone has ever framed a story of mine, I believe.

Your post got lost in the jumble, Ron; sorry 'bout that. THT was worth framing. Besides, it would just just tattered and frayed if I didn't do something with it!

[srboone]

So there I was, just settling in to watch Bag of Bones (which I missed las night because of football), when a loud knock on the door came. Very annoying, but I'm...generally a social creature, so I answered it. Postman Billy greeted me with a "Merry Christmas" and some packages! So, my brief annoyance flew out the window.

Two were stuff everybody should be familiar with by now (not including those rock underdwellers, of course!)

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[srboone]

But the third package was of great interest to me, so I opened it last.

I remembered someone in an earlier thread saying that a signed limited of this book had been made, but I never pursued it. Then Patrick showed us his nifty Hill House edition of American Gods by Neil Gaiman. I tried to google Hill House and came up only with an Australian Naturalists Society Publishing House; so I put the publisher in to ABE and BIBLIO and came up with over 3000 pieces of garbage, but I did find this:

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[srboone]

Cover art and interior illustraions by Stephen Gervais.

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[srboone]

I really like the back art, with the Chowder Society in the galss

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[srboone]

My pictures never come out right compared to my scans <sigh>

145/400

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[srboone]

Gervais did 12 interiors for the book. Since I want to get back to BoB, I'll post 2 of them:

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[srboone]

This is my favorite interior. Dr. Rabbitfoot scared the crap outta me at 16 and did so again at 45. This is exactly as I pictured him, too. Creepy.

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[srboone]

Finally, the seller included 2 pieces of correspondence with the book.

From the publisher:

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[srboone]

And a bill of sale for #s 139-148 to the merchant who sold me the book. Doesn't do anything for me, but I'll keep it.

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[srboone]

Finally, a scan I forgot to include above, so I'll put it here. It comes in a slipcase. The slipcse is slightly faded and frayed on one of the back ends, but it's in very good shape still.

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[srboone]

So now I have two states, the HH s/l and a 1st/1st American HC:

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