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Sure is. It seems really tough to find with deep colors, and the blue tends to fade. This was actually the first rivet run Planet I ever bought, and I haven't managed to find a better colored one in all those years.

Of course, these days there are any number of ways of collecting movies and tv series. I recently discovered k-drama. Never mind world-class auteurs like Andrei Tarkovsky or Krzysztof Kieślowski If you havent watched k-drama, you havent lived. And afterwards, you may not want to.

He deserves to be remembered. For over a quarter of a century David Shipman was the most influential writer on film in the world. He was never [a] film critic for a national newspaper, and was generally not seen by the cinema establishment as a heavyweight; but in the 10 books he wrote, most notably the three volumes that made up The Great Movie Stars and the two-volume The Story of Cinema, he exerted an influence no other writer on film has matched. More widely read than Pauline Kael, more authoritative and more knowledgeable than Leslie Halliwell, he always seemed in touch with the audiences for whom he wrote, and they appreciated his strongly held if iconoclastic views and the fact he was always his own man.

It packs a punch!

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Kay's next novel, Tigana, is genuinely moving, and where he found his own unique voice. A very underrated author IMHO.

Truly scarce UK First Editions of Guy Gavriel Kay's Fionavar tapestry. Much better than Lord of the Rings, though clearly inspired by it!

I lucked into this freakishly high grade copy on Ebay while searching for something entirely different. But then, who hasnt? Fantasy Press First Edition.

I must have read 'Lord of Light' half a dozen times. Zelazny was brilliant at merging sci fi themes with mythology. (See also Creatures of Light and Darkness.) This is another UK first edition.

Yes, I like it too. Gregory Manchess is credited. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gregory_Manchess

The Rose is one of my favorite sci fi stories. This is a very scarce UK edition.

I suspect many hardcover editions had small print runs. Here are a few. The Ted Chiang book has become very pricey, and seems to be quite scarce nowadays. I haven't actually read this yet, but loved the movie.

The japanese have a word for it - Tsundoko. Though I have in fact read most of my books, quite a few of them multiple times, I do like this from Mark Twain: 'What's the point in having a library if you've read all the books?' Of course it is also about the collecting gene, which is why I started on a project to replace all my paperbacks with hardcover versions, having no idea how tough that would prove to be! These are all hardback replacements of well read sci fi and fantasy - many first editions among them., including Ted Chiang's 'Stories of your life' which they made into 'Arrival'.

A shared interest you and I have oft discussed. I don't think I ever showed these to you? Wonderful books. Of all places, I actually found the first volume in a musty bookshop in Bombay on my first trip to India in 1979. They've been with me longer than any other books.

And I have a thing for really big books.

I dont collect first editions, but do like fine bindings, especially Subterranean Press and Folio Society.

In my case, books have always been an abiding interest, perhaps even more so than comics. This is what 35 years of book collecting will do to your home. The topics include masterworks, archives, absolute editions and omnibi, as you might expect, but also world history, mythology, palaeontology, sci fi and fantasy, art, archaeology, philosophy and psychology.

Information regarding the now 18 scholarships funded by fellow boardies is at last percolating through to me. Hopefully I will be able to post all of their bios soon. Meanwhile, anyone who has come aboard Serendip in the past few months might find it useful to follow this link and scroll halfway down the page for the most up to date thread navigation. Serendip thread navigation

Shahina just sent me a few more photos