OtherEric

Merlin being imprisoned in a tree is definitely one of (several) classic fates attributed to Merlin. I recognized it, at least.

Take The Young Outlaw at $12

In today. Only 4 Four Colors with Looney Tunes to go, and only one Porky Pig. That's #16, the Porky Pig #1. Which will generally cost more than #48 with Carl Barks art, but is actually easier to find from what I've seen.

Two more today. Both 1st print, non-Book Club editions. Up to 33 1st edition PKD books in my collection now.

I can now, thank you.

That recently?

I've already got a copy, but this is my favorite map on a mapback.

Unknown, June 1940? Cover scans grabbed from MCS:

Fresh in today, 1st print non-BCE. (Did I start this thread knowing I had several PKD books on the way? Maybe...) Maybe it's just me, but this one seems actually seems to be easier to find in HC than the 1st edition paperback. BCE's are pretty common as PKD books go:

It is, the book is a collection of stories, although they somehow forgot to mention that on the front cover.

A couple more:

as per PM!

as per PM.

as per PM.

In today. Only 5 Four Colors with the Looney Tunes characters to go:

Well, it does seem clear to me there was enough interest in PKD to support an appreciation thread for at least a few days, my thanks to everybody who has contributed. Here's a couple that I don't think have turned up here yet. One thing that's always struck me as odd: while the other three VALIS books were all hardcovers, as near as I can tell the only standalone hardcover edition of VALIS itself was an extremely limited edition released in the UK in the late 80's. I get it being a paperback original, about 2/3 of the books released in PKD's lifetime were. But I would have expected at least a SFBC edition, particularly since I know there are BCE editions of Divine Invasion and Radio Free Albemuth.

It's three magazine boxes, roughly. So not quite crazy space, but definitely not nothing. The sad thing is, I've got the Dark Horse collections as well. My next Kurtzman project is to finish the Humbug run; I've got all of his MAD issues, as well as Trump and Help!

I hadn’t thought of it this way until your comment, but I suppose “I only have two of the Weird Tales Conan covers” is actually a pretty sweet humblebrag, given that most people (these forums excepted) have zero.

Yes, the Wonder Stories are bedsheet pulps. I've only got a couple issues in that size:

Not sure on the financial side , but he’s posting fairly regularly in the paperback thread. Last post from him there was Friday, I think.

It happens, there isn't a collector on this planet who hasn't had something they regret having let go. I do need to try reading some more of PKD's mainstream novels, I've only actually tackled a couple so far and don't even have most of them yet.

Which brings up another point: it's amazing how much easier it is to find PKD books these days. Back in the late 80's and 90's when I first started looking, the only book that showed up with any regularity was Blade Runner, and finding anything else was a big day. I remember haunting used bookstores regularly, and I would always make a beeline right for the D's in the science fiction section. To this day he's the one author I still always check for, even though I've got a nearly complete collection of his works by this point. A few more I don't think we've seen here yet: