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As far as i can tell, this is also the first printing of this Douglas E. Winter intro:

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Aside from chapter heading designs, this is the only art by Keith Henderson

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[srboone]

I must say, I'm liking the quality of my pictures today. I don't know what I'm doing differently, but I gonna ride it out!

[srboone]

Finally, here are some scans of The Worm Ouroboros--4th print Barnes and Noble Library of Essential Reading papberback.

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The bottom of the back cover credits Jennifer Markson with the cover worm illustration and :Joseph Mallard William Turner, Clore Collection, Tate Gallery, London/Art Resource, New York" with the background painting. There are 5 illustrations inside, but they are almost stick-figurish and not credited to anyone and, frankly, not very interesting.

[Grant Wootton]

Your pix are great today Mr Boone - what's your secret ????

[srboone]

I wish I knew...more ruffage in my diet...a steadier than usual hand...having re-watched all 8 stoopid epidoes of The Young Ones recently...

or maybe I'm afraid of the alternative!

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I always took comfort from the fact that the ultimate destroyer of mankind was made into a cute plush toy, but it has other uses!

[Grant Wootton]

As the good book says, whatever floats your motivational ark

[srboone]

Woke up to SNOW this afternoon! It's about freakin' time! it's the middle of February!

Anyway, what I wasn't happy about, was the packages I saw amidst the snow-covered chairs on my porch. They couldn't even brush the chair off. Oh, well.

First up was:

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Shortly after BW1 posted this in his collection, I posted that this was a chapbook on my to get ASAP list. So what did I do? I immediately ordered it. An hour later BW offered to send me his extra copy free of charge.

Next time I post anything like that, I'll not be so quick on the draw.

[srboone]

Next up: Grant's The Drawing of the Three, 1st trade HC:

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I'd never seen the endpapers before. I like them:

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[srboone]

Signed by Phil Hale!

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[srboone]

While I'm overjoyed, not everyone(thing) is as estatic as I am:

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I can feel his pain. This guy has been the only copy of DTII on my shelves for 23 years. Now in one moment, he gets pushed to the back burner for a trade HC. But, he will be my reading copy if I ever decide to dot the DT thing again.

Spoiler!

I reminded him that I've already read him 6 times and did he really think I read that copy of DTII? Then I told him to look in the mirror and tell me what he sees:

Spoiler!

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<sigh>