[Rarebooks] FS: LORD JOHN SIGNATURES, the Deluxe and Regular Editions, each SIGNED by 43 writers including Stephen King, Gerald Ford, Updike, Welty, etc. Price reduced on each edition

Charles Agvent chagvent at ptd.net
Fri Jul 1 10:20:37 EDT 2011


Price reduced:    Was $400   Now  $350:

KING, Stephen; FORD, Gerald; HARRISON, Jim; UPDIKE, John; WELTY, Eudora; 
MAILER, Norman; BRADBURY, Ray; BURKE, James; etc. LORD JOHN SIGNATURES. 
Northridge, CA: Lord John Press, 1991. First Edition. Oblong quarto 
(10-1/2" x 7-1/2") bound in gilt-lettered blue cloth. An autograph album 
celebrating writers who were published by the press with an introduction 
by Stephen King. One of 400 numbered copies illustrated with photographs 
of all but King (though there is a facsimile of a manuscript page) and 
SIGNED by Stephen King, John Barth, James Blaylock, Robert Bloch, T. 
Coraghessan Boyle, Ray Bradbury, James Lee Burke, Ramsey Campbell, Harry 
Crews, James Crumley, Louise Erdrich & Michael Dorris, Dennis Etchison, 
Gerald R. Ford, Richard Ford, Bruce Francis, Ellen Gilchrist, Jim 
Harrison, Tony Hillerman, William Kennedy, Ursula K. LeGuin, John 
L'Heureux, Elmore Leonard, Thomas McGuane, Norman Mailer, Richard C. 
Matheson, Brian Moore, Joseph A. Mugnaini, Joyce Carol Oates, Edna 
O'Brien, Robert B. Parker, Tim Powers, Reynolds Price, James Purdy, Dan 
Simmons, Peter Straub, Ross Thomas, Anne Tyler, John Updike, Eudora 
Welty, and Donald E. Westlake, with printed signatures of William 
Everson and Richard Yates. Also includes a section of facsimile 
autographs of Thomas Pynchon, Gandhi, Charlie Chaplin, Einstein, Herman 
Melville, Ted Williams, and others. Although not called for, this copy 
is additionally SIGNED after publication by Charles Baxter and Mark 
Strand. Fine, as issued.         $350.00

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Price reduced:    Was $750   Now  $650:

KING, Stephen; FORD, Gerald; HARRISON, Jim; UPDIKE, John; WELTY, Eudora; 
MAILER, Norman; BRADBURY, Ray; BURKE, James; etc. LORD JOHN SIGNATURES. 
Northridge, CA: Lord John Press, 1991. First Edition. Oblong quarto 
(10-1/2" x 7-1/2") bound in gray cloth with a gilt-lettered morocco 
spine. An autograph album celebrating writers who were published by the 
press with an introduction by Stephen King. One of only 150 of the 
Deluxe Edition (of a total of 576 copies) illustrated with photographs 
of all but King (though there is a facsimile of a manuscript page) and 
SIGNED by Stephen King, John Barth, James Blaylock, Robert Bloch, T. 
Coraghessan Boyle, Ray Bradbury, James Lee Burke, Ramsey Campbell, Harry 
Crews, James Crumley, Louise Erdrich & Michael Dorris, Dennis Etchison, 
Gerald R. Ford, Richard Ford, Bruce Francis, Ellen Gilchrist, Jim 
Harrison, Tony Hillerman, William Kennedy, Ursula K. LeGuin, John 
L'Heureux, Elmore Leonard, Thomas McGuane, Norman Mailer, Richard C. 
Matheson, Brian Moore, Joseph A. Mugnaini, Joyce Carol Oates, Edna 
O'Brien, Robert B. Parker, Tim Powers, Reynolds Price, James Purdy, Dan 
Simmons, Peter Straub, Ross Thomas, Anne Tyler, John Updike, Eudora 
Welty, and Donald E. Westlake, with printed signatures of William 
Everson and Richard Yates. Also includes a section of facsimile 
autographs of Thomas Pynchon, Gandhi, Charlie Chaplin, Einstein, Herman 
Melville, Ted Williams, and others. Although not called for, this copy 
was also SIGNED after publication by Charles Baxter and Mark Strand. 
Fine, as issued, in slipcase.         $650.00

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