Who collects first editions?
>inb4 muh materialism
I try to look for old Vonnegut wherever I go.
I have a 1969 Bookclub Edition of SH5 I paid $5 for...goes for $60-100
Also have a fairly old copy of Player Piano...1952 printing?
>>7421769
>paying $5 for Slaughterhouse 5
You got ripped the fuck off son
>>7421748
materialism
>>7421748
>tfw at local bookstore buying copy of Mason & Dixon
>owner says "oh hey we've got this early Gravity's Rainbow
>it's the original edition
14 bucks well spent
i also have a first paperback AND first hardcover edition of 2001: A Space Odyssey along with a 1947 edition of The Stranger
I reallllly want a 1st ed. GR
Any tips..?
>>7421803
check out local bookstores constantly
any place with a regular flow of books is bound to get one in at some point. Hell, if they're small enough, have them add you to a list of "notify if ___ book is found"
>>7421792
Nice! I love how the older pynchon first editions had inlays in ththe cloth. Parabola on GR. Vs in different type sets on V. and of course the muted horn on CoL49
>>7421769
Bianculli teaches at my alma mater, Rowan University.
Pretty sure his car was the one in the parking lot with a vanity plate that says: ICTV4U
>>7421792
nice pickups
I live in a small farming town, but somehow I have found two first edition copies of Japanese novels, and one review copy.
The Key-Tanazaki Junichiro
The Zone of Silence-Noma Hiroshi
Modern Japanese Short Stories
>>7421775
Thanks ^^.
>>7421807
Damn, that's nice
>>7423594
You're talking about English translations of them, right?
It smells but is in one piece and basically unscathed.
>>7425083
Yes
>>7425101
The smell is apart of the package!
>>7421792
post pics of The Stranger yo.
>>7425243
Not him but I have a paperback from 1946.
Smells like cigarettes and I am not surprised
I have a few science book first editions by Dawkins, Thorne and Greene. In the fiction department, I have a copy of 2666 in Spanish (same cover as English edition) and this copy of Neuromancer.
I paid $15 for this 1983 first edition. I needed this artwork. The others weren't satisfying.
never understood the point of fetishizing a mass produced book
>>7425283
Sure, anyone can buy it. But I bought it. And that makes me special...right?
>>7425296
Only if you post a picture onto Facebook/4chan/Reddit!
>>7425260
>smells like cigarettes
the ony way.
>>7425276
yeah, some of the alternative Neuromancer cover arts are shit in comparison.
>>7425320
>>7421748
I found a first edition of Women and Men for 2$
Unrelated to /lit/ my mum gave me Led Zeppelin IV first pressing LP. I want to know how much that is worth.
I've got a first edition Mason & Dixon.
Pretty cool except I can find one in almost any used bookstore.
First edition ebooks, maybe.
it's not a first edition, but i have a signed copy of bill watterson's There's Treasure Everywhere
I've got Gene Wolfe's New Sun novels and McCarthys Border Trilogy in first edition.
Also, First edition of Sir Walter Scott's Lady of the Lake which I can't read because it'll probably crumble in my hands.
I do. I haven't really bought anything interesting lately though because muh poverty. I was thinking about branching out into rare paperbacks but they're so fragile. There was one guy on here who owned thousands of pornographic paperback books from the 1960s and 1970s. Kind of an odd hobby but interesting in my opinion.
