William Denton <
buff@pobox.com> writ:
> I think I asked how much they were charging for it,
actually, and checking
> my records I see got my copy at the first Toronto
pulp con for $35.
> Demand for Willeford's stuff must be going up. That
same dealer had a
> never-reprinted PBO David Goodis title for $150! (I
was wearing a tweed
> jacket, too.)
What was this ... a hard back first edition back in a
dustjacket, or a pb?
Looking at my copy of _The Machine in Ward Eleven_, UK
paperback, Consul 1964 (VG+) I find '£2.00' pencilled inside.
Although I remember quite liking it when I got it---I dipped
into it about a year or so ago---I see that the bookmark (a
supermarket till receipt dated Jan '98) is at about
halfway.
More recently I picked up a Black Lizard edition of _The
Burnt Orange Heresey_ for £2.00. Even though I read this when
it came up on the reading list, I thought I should get it ...
just in case (I have had pangs of regret about the Woolrich I
reluctantly left on the shelf, though I still came away with
an armful).
There's also an Arrow edition of _The Way We Die Now_ (as yet
unread by me) which has no sign of a price and which I don't
even recall getting
... but I suppose I *must've* ... it's blurbed as 'the last
Hoke Moseley novel',and there's a neat quote from William
Burroughs across the title:
'No one owns life. But anyone with a frying pan owns
death.'
ED
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