#First Edition Books

[savage-kult-of-gorthaur]

EPIC SCI-FI FIRST EDITIONS WORTH MORE THAN YOUR LIFE -- BOOK DETAILS ARE AS FOLLOWS:

TITLE: "Dune"

AUTHOR: Herbert, Frank

BINDING: Hardcover

EDITION: First Edition

PAGES: 412

VOLUMES: 1

LANGUAGE: English

PUBLISHER: Chilton Book Company, Radnor

DATE: 1965

BOOK OVERVIEW: "The first in the epic science fiction series of the same name, "Dune" is set on the desert planet Arrakis, host to "the Spice" - the most important resource in the universe, needed for interplanetary travel and coveted for its effects on longevity and granting incredible psychic powers among humans. Amidst an intergalactic power struggle, would-be heir to the planet's stewardship Paul Atreides is cast out into the desert to die following a coup. Joining a group of zealots called the Fremen, Paul soon becomes considered their messiah - Mahdi - and recognizes in them a formidable fighting force with whom he can retake control of Arrakis. "Dune" won both the Hugo Award for Best Novel and the Nebula Award for Best Novel.

FIRST EDITION IDENTIFICATION:

""Dune" is one of the high points for science fiction collectors and was first published in 1965 by Chilton Book Company in Philadelphia (an interesting departure for the publisher, who to that date had only published automotive repair manuals). The true first will read "First Edition" on the copyright page, with no subsequent printings, and will be in blue cloth boards. The jacket is a pictorial dark red and blue desert scene, and the rear panel has a map. The price on the jacket flap should be $5.95 and the rear flap should have the Chilton address across four lines."

-- BIBLIO, "The largest independent book marketplace in the world, with over 100 million books"

Sources: https://sarehlovasen.wordpress.com/2021/10/19/rating-all-of-the-dune-book-covers-i-can-find/ & eBay.

[kajaono]

Uhm guys! 😳Remember that German Rambo 1 edition that was 400€ cheaper then the other second hand German Rambo editions?

I bought it, wondering what’s wrong with it, why someone sells it for 23€ instead of 400€ like all the others and uhm…

It was never read, has no damage and it’s a FIRST EDITION?! 😳

I can not believe it!

Dude had no idea what he was selling there!

I am gonna faint! 😱

[bixels]

me too, luna.

[alexandriabelle]

First editions

I have a couple of first editions of books that I’m wondering if they are worth anything.

I have Harry Potter and the order of the Phoenix, by J.K Rowling, it’s a hardcover printed in Australia by griffin press, first edition.

Harry Potter and the deathly hallows, by J.k Rowling another hardcover, printed in Australia by Griffin Press, first edition.

Fantastic beasts the secrets of dumbledore, screenplay, hardcover, printed in U.S.A, first edition, July 2022.

Vamps, by Nancy A. Collins, paperback, printed in USA, first edition.

Pretty Little Liars, by Sara Shepard, paperback, printed in USA, first HarperTeen paperback edition, 2007.

Flawless, a pretty little liars novel, by Sara Shepard, paperback, printed in USA, first HarperTeen paperback edition, 2008.

Little golden book classic, the color kittens, printed in USA, first Random House edition 2003

And this last one isn’t first edition but it looks old, Enid Blyton’s Sunshine Book, hardcover

[cdchyld]

Just added to Etsy!

~ "The Birds of Winter" by Kit and George Harrison (1990) First Edition

[the-meme-monarch]

just a lot of the axolotl :] and that bitchass triangle

[raeraesrummage]

Do you have a bookworm rather than a chocolate fiend at home?

Why not consider 2nd hand books, instead of more chocolate for the cupboard. I have a selection of pre teen/teen fiction on my vinted page, including some 1st editions and sets for a special treat!

Open to bulk discount.

easter #eastergiftideas #JacquelineWilson #bookworm #choclatefiend #2ndhand #booklovers #teenfiction #booksbooksbooks #reusereducerecycle #secondhand

[egophiliac]

since Eng is getting 7.5 soon(?), I felt motivated to go back to my Meleanor rig and make her a couple of lesson animations! ...except for alchemy, because the cauldron bubbles proved too hard to photoshop around, whoops.

maybe she just got lost on her way to the classroom...?

(credit: backgrounds are from the game, I just put her on top of 'em)

(aside from the backgrounds, this is not an edit, I drew her from scratch! please do not tag or treat as an edit!)

[princesscolumbia]

Wait, WHAT?!

Hold on; okay, so during the mid- to late-80s my mom gave me, like, 3/4 of her library of Star Trek books so I'd have my own starting library. Even through getting kicked out and into the system by my step-mother (long story), an interstate move, a marriage, a divorce, and being friggin' homeless I made sure to hang on to those books:

(Some obvious non-Trek books have been added, and yes, the bibliophiles out there will know, this is just a fraction of my total books.)

I have read and re-read and re-re-read these a lot. We're planning on moving to Seattle in a few years, and it got me nostalgic for this beauty, which it looks like I'll have to get the Kindle version and hand this one to a book doctor so it will survive at least a little longer:

This is my third copy of Uhura's Song, the first one my mom gave me got loved to death, literally falling apart in my hands at one point. The second suffered a similar fate, and now I have it on Kindle to at least try to keep this one from suffering Ishmael's end:

Oh, look! It's Doctor's Orders by @dduane! Containing one of my absolutely FAVORITE lines in fiction of all time:

“One good shot at this velocity, and they would be so dead that they wouldn't know anything about it until God tapped them on the shoulder and asked them for identification.” ― Diane Duane, Doctor's Orders

Ah! Here it is!

...is it...?

IT IS!

Back when I first read this, I thought it was good, I thought it was fun, but I was a repressed transgirl lesbian who didn't even know transwomen were a thing you could be and my TERF stepmother actively kept me out of what we would now call LGBTQ+ spaces, so I didn't even realize Spirk was a 'thing' until I was a fully grown adult with a kid on the way. You'd have had to hit me upside the head with a brick with "M/M" written on it and then patiently explained that men can feel like that with each other, too. You'd probably have needed to include charts and a graph, 'cause that's how clueless I was to what being gay meant.

Time to re-read, I guess! 😋

i'm finally getting around to reading Killing Time by Della Van Hise.

you know, the Star Trek book that was so gay that it was recalled and reprinted with over 50 changes.

I got my hands on a first edition copy from Thriftbooks and decided to use a sticky tab every time something "spirk" happened

I'm only halfway through.

[savage-kult-of-gorthaur]

DAMN, SON, IS IT TOO SOON TO POST THIS? A DEDICATION TO DOMESTIC CURRENT EVENTS.

PIC(S) INFO: Resolution at 1735x2851 -- Mega spotlight on front & back cover art to "Burning MAD" by "MAD" magazine, original paperback, first edition published by Signet in October 1968.

Source: www.biblio.com/book/burning-mad-mad-magazine/d/1463001310.

[gatorbytes]

thinking abt area x again... inspired by jeff vandermeer's annihilation (2014)

pieces bulletin monumental, vol. 35 (1869), société française d'archéologie [stone staircase] (2019), pixabay user id: jazella cmu typewriter typeface

[deikshen]

More DILF Shen Yuan because I woke up from that mood

Shen Yuan has an ex-wife with whom he gets along well, an older daughter who is already of legal age as geeky as he is, two younger thirteen years old twin sons, and his daughter under ten years old. He is closer to fifty than forty, and apparently a traditional life with a wife and children was what was necessary for him to accept how terribly homosexual he is.

But that's okay, he supposes. Accepting his sexuality, learning to communicate better... Necessary things. His ex-wife is now his friend, his children are well raised with lots of love and patience. Shen Yuan does not consider his divorce a failure, as his brothers accuse him, just another experience. He was not happy in his marriage. Why should he remain in a place where he was not happy?

Then one day, Luo Binghe knocks on his door.

Shen Yuan looks at the haughty man dressed in xianxia robes, a sword on his back, says "fuck not today" and closes the door in his face. Luo Binghe enters anyway. Look, Shen Yuan may enjoy the habit of reading and trashing web novels... That doesn't mean he accepts web novel protagonists ending up at his doorstep! Really!!

Luo Binghe looks shocked to see him, Shizun this, Shizun that. He looks at him as if Shen Yuan in his haughty fifties with gray hair and a tired face had two heads or four arms.

Well, it's Luo Binghe. Shen Yuan knows that he has no chance to fight him. It's not even opposed to the idea of fantasy - age drains one's imagination. If Luo Binghe is there, great, damn, he really is there.

Shen Yuan takes a deep breath, scolds him for breaking his door, tells him that he's really not in the mood for games or riddles. He has to finish correcting some important files which must be delivered no later than tonight. Luo Binghe is invited to stay as long as he keeps that sword away from his children. This week they will be with their mother, but not the following week, and that is his only condition. He's not going to let the kids near that sword.

... Luo Binghe surprisingly accepts it.

In reality, Shen Yuan is concentrating on his work so as not to think that there is a xianxia protagonist inspecting every aspect of his house. By the time he submits the corrections he owes, it's not even dusk yet and Luo Binghe is sitting on the sofa in the living room, watching a historical drama that Shen Yuan sometimes watches with a look of surprise. Shen Yuan explains the plot to him a bit and when it seems that Luo Binghe is more lost than found, he actually asks him what he wants. How did he get there? Why to his house? What does he want?

Luo Binghe looks annoyed that he has to explain - as if Shen Yuan should know beforehand or just agree to Luo Binghe's demands without asking! He explains about opening portals with Xin Mo, a strange world where there was another him, a kind Shizun married to another Luo Binghe. Something about a soul exchange, tracing the soul back to... him. Luo Binghe wants that kind Shizun for himself. He wants what is rightfully his. Why would a Luo Binghe have someone like that in his life, and he wouldn't?

Shen Yuan tries to be open-minded enough. Well, it's not like there's any other explanation. Luo Binghe shows him his claws, his zuiyin, and it's clear that he really is who he says he is. Shen Yuan assumes that a version of him (different? Who came out of the closet before marrying a woman?) transmigrated and took his favorite character as a husband, even if it is from the skin of the scum villain. Well, congratulations to him. Shen Yuan wishes them all the best.

But now there is a very real, very demonic, very traumatized Luo Binghe in his living room, watching a transmigration drama, trying to understand everything. Shen Yuan feels sad for him. He definitely needs kindness, good treatment, better care. These are not things he gets in the harem! Always having to be the provider, the protector, the one who gives his all. Shen Yuan had always been annoyed by that part of the story.

Well, now he can change that, can't he?

He tells him that he is not willing to go with him. He has a very good job as an editor, his children have an arrangement to spend one week at his house and one week at their mother's house, he has a good relationship with his ex-wife. Going to another universe would complicate his life as long as he doesn't do it during his vacation season.

However, Luo Binghe is welcome to stay. Shen Yuan will be kind to him, but if Luo Binghe wants to, he must communicate about it. And he cannot talk about other worlds, demons, harem or emperors when his children are at home. Luo Binghe doesn't quite agree, but he agrees. Shen Yuan promises him that he will take a vacation and go to that world of his to meet him, but it won't be right away. Luo Binghe is a little appeased by that.

And so, a few days later, Shen Yuan picks up his children from his ex's house and tells them: "I've brought a friend to live with us for a while."

He explains to them that he comes from far away, that he doesn't know much about the city or technology, that he speaks strangely and that it can be overwhelming. But he is a good friend, he cooks exquisitely, and he will enjoy spending time with them.

(Luo Binghe would not agree to that last point.)

They are somewhat wary, a wariness that goes away when they enter a house that smells of delicious, unburned home-cooked food. After dinner, they are more willing to accept Luo Binghe into their home and their life. And Luo Binghe does his part well: he behaves pleasantly, speaks casually, does not terrify or intimidate the children, he is a functional adult... As soon as the kids go to their rooms he looks up at Shen Yuan with big puppy eyes waiting for pats on the head for being good.

Sweet Jesus. Shen Yuan is too out of the closet for this. How will he survive this Luo Binghe who just wants to be treated kindly without spoiling him and showering him with all the love he deserves?

[eats-a-berry]

yeah ok alright

[cdchyld]

Just added to Etsy!

~ "Buckle Horse" by Barbara May (1956) First Edition

[maplefiasco]

What we share, he and I, may be a lot like a traffic accident, but we do share it. -Margaret Atwood, Cat's Eye