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>Date: Mon, 26 Aug 2002 09:15:38 -0500
>From: Robison Michael R CNIN <
Robison_M@crane.navy.mil>
>Subject: RARA-AVIS: Willeford connection
>
>Betsy Willeford said:
>Knox Burger asked Charles or whoever was delivering
Charles's ms at the time
>
>to stop submitting work to Gold Medal; Burger really,
profoundly disliked
>"this guy Willeford's" writing.
>
>********
>It seems you share last names with one of the
all-time greats
>in hardboiled/noir. Is this a coincidence? I've read
Wille-
>ford's two autobiographies, but it's been a while, so
you must
>forgive me if you were mentioned in them.
>
>thanks, miker
She won't be mentioned there, but have you read Don Herron's
WILLEFORD?**
[350 page hardcover - ISBN 0-939767-34-1 $30] Still available
from the publisher, Dennis McMillan, at http://www.dennismcmillan.com/catalog/index.htm
]
Several articles on/about Willeford also, if you poke around
the site.
###
While I'm helping you spend all your money:
Edward R. Hamilton, Bookseller
http://www.edwardrhamilton.com/
....is offering:
>THE RED HOT TYPEWRITER: The Life and Times of John D.
MacDonald .
>By Hugh Merrill
>
>The creator of Travis McGee is profiled--one of the
first writers to weave
>into his adventures a concern for the environment; he
had had published 70
>novels and over 500 of his short stories.
>Hardbound
>256 pages
>Published by St Martin's
>Item # 2114917
>ISBN 0312209053
>Remainder Pub at $24.95 Your Price $9.95
This is, quite simply, the best biography of any genre writer
[mystery; sf] I've read; one I don't regret having paid full
price for.
The unfortunate thing about giving you that link is that you
probably won't get out of the site with your check book
intact!
Say...
>CRIME FICTION II, REVISED EDITION: A Comprehensive
Bibliography, 1749-1990
>By Allen J. Hubin
>
>Covers all crime fiction in the English language
published in book form
>(both soft and hard covers) through the end of 1990.
Excluded are magazine
>and dime novel fiction, juvenile and children's
material, omnibus
>collections and anthologies. 1568 pages in two
volumes.
>Hardbound
>Published by Garland
>Item # 2013827
>ISBN 0824068912
>Remainder Pub at $250.00 Your Price $59.95
Yeah, I know it's been superseded by the CD-Rom; but this is
still a massive resource, for the money.
Last time I looked, several of the Collector's Press "20th
Century..." cover-collections, at a third cover price. Damn.
I better close this window ... now!
The Fatal Attraction is that if you order one book ... or a
hundred
(probably; I've done as many as twenty at a time....) the
Shipping Charge is a flat $3.50. [The pain-in-the-ass is that
they only ship within the U.S. Sorry.]
One more: Fredric Brown has been mentioned here, once or
twice.
A couple of years ago. Nesfa Press [ http://www.nesfa.org/press/
] published
From These Ashes: The Complete Short SF of Fredric
Brown by Fredric Brown
[$29.00 (hardcover) ], still available; and now, just
published: Martians and Madness A collection of Fredric
Brown's five SF novels. 1-886778-17-5. [He's one author who,
if you enjoy his mysteries, you'll likely also enjoy his
science fiction...]
...but, of more relevance to Rara-Avians:
*Please* check out http://www.stewartmasters.com/home2.html
!
To wit:
>The Fredric Brown Mystery Library
>
> Stewart Masters Publishing is proud to present The
Fredric Brown
> Mystery Library. Our mission is to bring back into
print, in quality
> hardcover editions, all of Brown's mystery and
detective novels and short
> stories. Collecting Brown's works can be difficult
and expensive. Many of
> his novels were in print only briefly as hardcover
editions from
> Dutton, and a few were never even reprinted in
paperback editions.
>
> For the average mystery reader, the hardcover and
paperback first
> editions are generally priced out of reach on the
collectors' market. The
> Fredric Brown Mystery Library will encompass seven
volumes. The first two
> volumes scheduled to be published in 2002 are Hunter
and Hunted, Parts
> One and Two, which include the entire series of Ed
and Ambrose Hunter
> detective stories-never before published
together!
I have the first volume; it is beautiful! And it came in the
most "secure" mailer I've ever received a book in. (Pricey,
but I figure I'll be able to sell off the paperbacks of the
two I had on eBay, and, possibly pay for this 4-novel
Omnibus....)
No, I get no 'consideration' for these unsolicited
'plugs'.
Nesfa & McMillan are fairly well established, but Masters
is just starting out ... and I selfishly want him to get
enough support to complete the seven-volume series.
After all, that's the only way I'll get access to all those
Fred Brown short stories McMillan has had locked up in
out-of-print editions all these years!
Besides, why should I be the only one on Rara-Avis, who is
continually broke ... as a result of reading the damn
List!
--
Bill B
** _Everyone_ should read this & the two autobiographies, before
July 2003!
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