quote Originally posted by boomme: trying o keep it on topic of rare celebrity cars..... BTW - If you're a real big King fan... I'm known as sir_boomme over on the http://thedarktower.org/ this is a huge group of king fans and has a group serious king collectors... be warned though... once you start collecting rare king books - it can get very expensive. just a few of my king books...

I thought I would continue our conversation in T/Ot so we don't jack the other thread, boomme.

I am a cheap book collector and place most of my value on books that hold sentimental value but almost no "real" value. THE DARK TOWER: THE GUNSLINGER is one of my favorite novels of all time. It has always been ranked #1 or #2 on my list since I first read it, switching places with R.M. Meluch's WAR BIRDS.

I have a number of autographed copies of books - but only for other authors I've personally met. I also try to have them personalize the autograph ("to Patrick") because I don't ever sell them. I know that goes against most collectors' ideas, but oh well.

I've got signed and/or have met the following, mostly in Paperback (I collect both the hardcover and paperback if possible).

Orson Scott Card
R.A. Salvatore
Terry Brooks
Kevin J. Anderson
Rebecca Meluch
Brad Meltzer
Mike Stackpole
Robert Bakker
and many others I can't think of off the top of my head.

My most valuable (sentimental) books are my copy of WAR BIRDS in MM (never offered as a HC), and a Chicago 1st Edition Book of Mormon that belonged to an aunt that migrated to Utah over a century ago. She left the book with my grandmother and my grandmother gave it to me. Also my copies of PRIDE OF THE REPUBLIC (my first paid writing gig) and SUNSET (my comic book that got published in 2008.)

I have a lot of Stephen King novels in HC, including an outstanding copy of EYES OF THE DRAGON. I am slowly trying to collect all 7 DT hardcovers that match the latest covers. I am missing book 2 and 4, I think.

I'm always on the lookout at used books stores for Meluch novels and old Lustabader stuff (before he "mainstreamed") like THE SUNSET WARRIOR.

I would like to see your collection if you are offering. I have a buddy in Denver who is a serious level collector who paid his way through college via some of his collection (not kidding.) He collects a lot of signed British 1st Edition Forsythe books. I think he's missing a signature on the latest one or two because FF doesn't travel much outside of England anymore.

Good stuff!

Flamberge

always love to find other bibliophiles! sound like you got some nice books... I for one don't share the philosophy that books should be flat signed rather than inscribed. I think more is better.
I've got some books signed to Terry by SK, but they were signed to a different Terry - ha ha.
I own a complete collection of King true 1st editions - both in U.S copies and in U.K 1sts. (plus a couple of other foreign King titles when they were true "world 1sts")

My King proof/advance reader editions are about 70% done...
and My limited editions are probably 90% complete.
Periodicals/Mags, college/highschool publications,etc with first appearnce of King stories are probably in the 80% range of being complete... though it seems that somehting is always surfacing.
here's a few pics of a few of my goodies:

signed proof edition of King's 1st novel Carrie (note the "Not for Sale/To be published on the back cover):




My

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Flamberge- Every gamer nerd I know always has a few thousand books in their library besides their gaming books. Most well read hobbyists on the planet, methinks. Nice collection. I used to have a personalized message and Signature in one of the RA Salvatore novels. Unfotunately, I let a "friend" borrow it and never saw it again. Nor did he admit to what happened other than "I cant find it." Obviously we are not friends anymore. I think it got destroyed when his basement flooded (also his bedroom, lived with his uncle.)

I just hate it when people cannot fess up to destroying your items accidently. I would have understood.. but since he did not fess up, I dont understand at all.

A few years ago, I had the opportunity to buy the entire Doubleday files - (the now defunct) Doubleday was King's first publisher and published Carrie, The Stand (Original and the 1990 Uncut Version), Salem's Lot, and Pet Semetery
at the time, I think I paid 16 grand for the files... but they would be worth significantly more now.

I got boxes and boxes of stuff.... but here are a few the items:

original publisher photos used for the back jackets.


a mock up cover for the limited edition of The Stand (also shown are rejected proofing covers for Rose Madder - not form the Doubleday file)



letter from King to Doublday Publisher discussing a Donahue appearance and scripts for Pet Semetary and Different Seasons.


original signatures that King did to have printed on the book Pet Semetary... see if you can determine which one was finally used:



... This should help...



several in house proof reader copies of the Uncut Stand... with lots of corrections... these were very interesting to go through and gave a lot of insight into the publishing process.

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HEY YOU TWO!
Don't think for a moment that you can have your little book club meetings at the same time as the FIERO meetings!
Start your own Fiero Book club!!

Did yo hear...another new member!! up to 16 now!!!

Oh and Terry....nice self portrait above the books! lol

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some more Proof edition and advance reader editions:


US first editions (these have also expanded due to King putting out so many new novels in the past couple of years):



UK 1st editions (this pic is from 2008, so no newer UK books are shown):

You ever sell any King stuff? I'd be interested in something cheap (I'm poor, as you know.)

We can take it to PM or in person if you like.

Also, if you want a rare signed copy of PRIDE OF THE REPUBLIC, I can probably procure one for you.

BTW I love your bookcases. I've wanted glass door bookshelves since I first saw them in Molly Brown's House in Denver. She has one of the coolest houses I've ever been in and if I'm ever a bazillionoaire, I'll incorporate a lot of the architectural features of that house into mine.

that's all for now... have to work... just to much stuff to post all of it.

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quote Originally posted by revin: HEY YOU TWO! Don't think for a moment that you can have your little book club meetings at the same time as the FIERO meetings! Start your own Fiero Book club!! Did yo hear...another new member!! up to 16 now!!! Oh and Terry....nice self portrait above the books! lol

What are you talking about? I would never do that! *innocent* (Try not to realize that even though I don't have a fiero, I DO have a book collection - meager though it might be.)

Ya'll couldn't have a Fiero Book collection? gezzz at least drop us a bone if you are not going to have a Fiero in the club....
j/k

quote Originally posted by Flamberge: You ever sell any King stuff? I'd be interested in something cheap (I'm poor, as you know.) We can take it to PM or in person if you like. Also, if you want a rare signed copy of PRIDE OF THE REPUBLIC, I can probably procure one for you. BTW I love your bookcases. I've wanted glass door bookshelves since I first saw them in Molly Brown's House in Denver. She has one of the coolest houses I've ever been in and if I'm ever a bazillionoaire, I'll incorporate a lot of the architectural features of that house into mine.

I could.... sale this book:








and pay for this:




and have money left over... ha ha


I've said I'll retire on my books... problem is... once they are in my collection... I can't part with them... so never sold any (though I have traded duplicate copies for other books that I didn't own)

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quote Originally posted by tbone42: Flamberge- Every gamer nerd I know always has a few thousand books in their library besides their gaming books. Most well read hobbyists on the planet, methinks.

That is my wife. Except no game books. I am pretty sure she has read ALL but her newest grabs. I think I have 37 1.5x1.5 foot boxes of books still packed, waiting for shelves.

quote Originally posted by boomme: letter from King to Doublday Publisher discussing a Donahue appearance and scripts for Pet Semetary and Different Seasons.

That is cool!! That was Satyricon in Knoxville that he mentions I believe. My mom was one of those hand shakers I am a huge King fan. My mom introduced me to him early on, reading me his stuff as bedtime stories

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quote Originally posted by boomme: and pay for this:

HOLY COW Terry!!! where was that??? why didn't you call your Fiero brothers for that car wash?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!!?!?!?!?

dam now I will have to fire you from the club, unless you set that up for one of our meetings
OR bring them to the next meeting

Yes I am a dirty old man

quote Originally posted by revin: HOLY COW Terry!!! where was that??? why didn't you call your Fiero brothers for that car wash?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!!?!?!?!? dam now I will have to fire you from the club, unless you set that up for one of our meetings OR bring them to the next meeting Yes I am a dirty old man

ha ha... Marine and I have already suggested (see the girls with Fiero thread) that our next meet be at Twin Peaks -Round Rock...right down the road from you)... they have the Sat. car wash - and great food, booze and sports TV...not to mention the scenery.
It'd be really cool to have 12+ fieros show up all in a row for the ladies to wash.... what a great foto op that would be!

U need to make it happen boss!

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I don't usually have the desire to meet celebrities, and those that I have met, or worked for I never really had the desire to get their Autograph. That said if I had a hobby that included getting autographs, I would make it a point to have the person signing put the most bizarre things possible.

I can't come up with much off the top of my head for some reason, but I would think King may go for a "Better than Koontz" or "Your Mom was great last night."

Everyone has the "generic" quips on their autographed books, I want memorable words from a wordsmith!

Brad

quote Originally posted by twofatguys: I don't usually have the desire to meet celebrities, and those that I have met, or worked for I never really had the desire to get their Autograph. That said if I had a hobby that included getting autographs, I would make it a point to have the person signing put the most bizarre things possible. I can't come up with much off the top of my head for some reason, but I would think King may go for a "Better than Koontz" or "Your Mom was great last night." Everyone has the "generic" quips on their autographed books, I want memorable words from a wordsmith! Brad

Orson Scott Card wrote "glad to meet a fellow writer" in ENDER'S GAME.

Rebecca Meluch wrote "Tally ho!" in WAR BIRDS, and something different in each book she signed for me.

You guys are awesome.

quote Originally posted by twofatguys: I don't usually have the desire to meet celebrities, and those that I have met, or worked for I never really had the desire to get their Autograph. That said if I had a hobby that included getting autographs, I would make it a point to have the person signing put the most bizarre things possible. I can't come up with much off the top of my head for some reason, but I would think King may go for a "Better than Koontz" or "Your Mom was great last night." Everyone has the "generic" quips on their autographed books, I want memorable words from a wordsmith! Brad

that's funny brad... I do to when I get the chance...

I had a collie for 14 years (now passed away) that I had named "It" - after the the newest Stephen King novel that I was reading at the time.
Anyway, back in 06, Dean Koontz was doing a signing and I got the bookstore to get me an inscribed copy and mail it to me... I asked them to have Koontz sign the book To It (my dog).
thought that'd be funny to have Koontz sign a book to a King character.
So Kontz signed it as below...and added "from The Thing"

My collie died the next year... I got another pond puppy 4 months later... and named him "The Thing"
(then I got another dog he following month and named him "WORM")

last month, I got Robert McGammon to sign his newest novel "To It "also... so I have two signed book to my Collie...(or to a Stephen King character)
I know... I've got a weird sense of humor....



and this was a nice find... I was on my way to the Texas Book Festival to get some sigs... and stopped off at a half price book store to grab a 1st edition of amy tan's to get her to sign it.
I grabbed this copy off the shelf, and paid the half price for it, got it out to the car...opened it up and found this inscription in it already.
anyway, I took it to the festival, and got amy tan to sign /inscribe it again to me... appently the first inscription was to two good friends of hers that didn't think much of her artwork ha ha.
she was a little purplussed that she had gone through the trouble to sign and draw a picture in this years before, just to have them sale it to a half price books.
pretty funny..

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quote Originally posted by boomme: This is my newest lettered edition... Jack Ketchum's (another favorite author) The Woman... Letter E - 1 of 26 copies I love that the Moraccan goat skin leather is made to look like human skin... and yes... those are real human bones attached to the front. this book set me back 1250.00 (publisher's price)

Wow!!!
I have to tell you, if I had seen that in January, I would have likely been one of the 26 to order it. My wife would simply PLOTZ over something like that. I am not sure if either of us have read his work, I know I have not. But that is just an awesome book!

I guess to call you a collector would be a bit of an understatement!!

quote Originally posted by 8Ball: Wow!!! I have to tell you, if I had seen that in January, I would have likely been one of the 26 to order it. My wife would simply PLOTZ over something like that. I am not sure if either of us have read his work, I know I have not. But that is just an awesome book! I guess to call you a collector would be a bit of an understatement!!

If you want an extremely disturbing... but a great read.... try Ketchum's "the Girl Next Door"
you might loose some sleep over it though. before you put it down...and after.

quote Originally posted by boomme: I've always been a fan of Patrick Nagel's work... this is an original acrylic on board:

See my comment on Nagel. I'm quickly starting to wonder if you are just me with more spending money.

Nagel is my favorite artist.

I <3 Nagel.


Ever notice a lot of beauty salons use that type of art?

quote Originally posted by FieroRumor: I <3 Nagel. Ever notice a lot of beauty salons use that type of art?

Anyone alive in the 80s noticed!

quote Originally posted by FieroRumor: My friends are almost ready to publish this this - you should buy a copy and anjoy it. Take a peek, please! http://foreshadows.net/ Foreshadows: The Ghosts of Zero is a 19-story anthology of dark science fiction intertwined with a 19-track album of songs and soundtrack music, created collaboratively by a veritable shadow gallery of speculative fiction authors and musicians, under the banner of the Very Us Artists, to be published by Blindsided Books.

thanks for the link... I'll definitely be checking it out!


yeah... I've been a Nagel fan since the 80's - back when I had enough hair to get perms ha ha - and was a duran duran fan...

(if you think I have a lot of books... you should see my vinyl collection)

anyway, after seeing a Nagel in the houston fine arts museum back in the 80's - I always said if I ever had money, I was going to own an original... so I bought this one about 10 years ago...


it's listed in the Nagel catalog...



page 70 (though it's listed incorrectly as acrylic on canvas, it is actually acrylic on board)


in the top picture, the large marilyn was done by california artist Roy Roybal.... all the other artwork are my own drawings/paintings/ photography
here's the other side of the room (though the door is now painted white with a red/white vertical pin-striped curtain)
the artwork is more of my stuff...



as you see, some of my work has been highly influenced by my love for Nagel...

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Boomme...I love your work!

Is any of it catalogued and, if so, do you have prints available?

PM me if you get a minute. Thanks!

quote Originally posted by tbone42: Flamberge- Every gamer nerd I know always has a few thousand books in their library besides their gaming books. Most well read hobbyists on the planet, methinks. Nice collection. I used to have a personalized message and Signature in one of the RA Salvatore novels. Unfotunately, I let a "friend" borrow it and never saw it again. Nor did he admit to what happened other than "I cant find it." Obviously we are not friends anymore. I think it got destroyed when his basement flooded (also his bedroom, lived with his uncle.) I just hate it when people cannot fess up to destroying your items accidently. I would have understood.. but since he did not fess up, I dont understand at all.

tbone... that is such a bummer about your book... I never loan out any signed books.... or read them... I have reading copies of each.
it really sucks to lose something like that... i had a extensive coin collection with many rarities that I had collected since I was 9 years old... when I was about 36, someone stole it from my rented duplex - I think it was the landlord or the roommate of the landlord... but never could prove it. 20 years later it still pisses me off so much I could spit.

I've owned my house for 4 years now... and so greatful I don't have to worry about crooked landlords or apartment personnel anymore.

no...this is NOT porno... it's just your dirty mind playing tricks on you...
a photo by me called:
"The Sex Inside One's Self "

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Color me impressed!!! You have some serious talent!