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Post by andydecker on Feb 6, 2021 12:31:57 GMT
Considering how many contributors to this board have copies, I think it's more than a 'few' survive. Evidently those tasked with 'destroying' the books made a commendably half-hearted job of it. I had no problem ordering this. But vol.1 was out. I only paid quite a (too high) price for this, but I needed one for work. A writer who is as good as unavaiable or in this unacceptable 150 quid range a copy is surprisingly Chetwynd-Hayes. I only managed to get The Unbidden for a sum I thought acceptable.
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Post by dem bones on Feb 6, 2021 19:26:26 GMT
I had no problem ordering this. But vol.1 was out. I only paid quite a (too high) price for this, but I needed one for work. A writer who is as good as unavaiable or in this unacceptable 150 quid range a copy is surprisingly Chetwynd-Hayes. I only managed to get The Unbidden for a sum I thought acceptable. Typically, it's the one that wasn't banned is hardest to get hold of. The Chetwynd-Hayes William Kimbers in particular are outrageously overpriced - I guess the ionicus covers play their part in that. To think they were once piled-high in London remainder shops at 50p a go ...
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Post by Middoth on Feb 6, 2021 22:25:28 GMT
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Post by Johnlprobert on Feb 7, 2021 12:33:45 GMT
I had no problem ordering this. But vol.1 was out. I only paid quite a (too high) price for this, but I needed one for work. A writer who is as good as unavaiable or in this unacceptable 150 quid range a copy is surprisingly Chetwynd-Hayes. I only managed to get The Unbidden for a sum I thought acceptable. Typically, it's the one that wasn't banned is hardest to get hold of. The Chetwynd-Hayes William Kimbers in particular are outrageously overpriced - I guess the ionicus covers play their part in that. To think they were once piled-high in London remainder shops at 50p a go ... I *finally* tracked down a replacement of The Unbidden, which was not cheap. I picked up all my Kimbers 20 years ago for reasonable prices (and one mint copy for a pound at a church jumble sale in the Lake District - I don't remember the name of the town but I still remember that rush of joy when I spotted it) but I'd hate to look at what they're selling for now.
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Post by andydecker on Feb 7, 2021 13:24:32 GMT
Oh yes, that one, Drake and Pumilia. But that was the usual practice. The imprint had a fixed length, nearly every of those anthologies has a few stories missing. It is unknown what was more important, the suitabilty of the content or how many pages it would take up. Though I doubt they would have taken Miller's story in the first place, because they liked it better than, say , Counselman. They had to look out for problematic content at the time. For instance Ramsey Campbell's stories were a bit censored. Both this story and "The other woman" in the first one. The more explicit sexual descriptions were either omitted - half a sentence here or there - or a bit mellowed in the translation. The books also were also released under Parry's name and not Linda Lovecraft. The name and the allusions wouldn't have worked in '78 - I don't know of course, but I suppose the joke was also over the head of many of the British buyers -, also this was the sixth Parry anthology with more to come already so why needlessly alienate prospective buyers with another new and untested name on the cover?
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