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Post by helrunar on Mar 25, 2021 13:19:40 GMT
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Post by helrunar on Mar 25, 2021 16:06:39 GMT
This isn't on topic for this thread, but I read this in an article this morning and found it of interest:
L. Sprague de Camp's personal library of about 1,200 books was acquired for auction by Half Price Books in 2005. The collection included books inscribed by fellow writers, such as Isaac Asimov and Carl Sagan, as well as de Camp himself.
The mind reels...
H.
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Post by andydecker on Mar 25, 2021 19:39:05 GMT
This isn't on topic for this thread, but I read this in an article this morning and found it of interest: L. Sprague de Camp's personal library of about 1,200 books was acquired for auction by Half Price Books in 2005. The collection included books inscribed by fellow writers, such as Isaac Asimov and Carl Sagan, as well as de Camp himself.The mind reels... H. There were even larger ones. From the SFE about P. Schuyler Miller:
Largely as a by-product, he accumulated one of the largest private Collections focusing mostly on Genre SF, the Catalogue of the Fantasy and Science Fiction Library of the Late P Schuyler Miller (1977) by Lloyd Currey is a useful bibliographical aid, individually itemizing over 3500 hardbound volumes for sale; Miller's collection also contained over 4600 paperback volumes, not here itemized.
I can't even imagine so many sf paperbacks and definitly not hardcovers.
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Post by andydecker on Mar 25, 2021 20:30:16 GMT
The Belmont article is nice. Thanks for the link. Wonderful covers.
Only the often seen confusion about "Quinn Reade" and "Richard Meade". Both were pseudonyms for Ben Haas, the writer of the great western series Fargo.
I have quite a few of those novels, even a few of the BT editions. Jakes' Brak series, which I thought okay, but not great, Fox' Kothar, which is even more derivative and as basic as S&S can be, and not in a good way, the Bulmer one which I never read and the Reade.
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Post by helrunar on Mar 26, 2021 1:38:51 GMT
That's a stupefying number of books from a library accumulated with a terminus of 1977. One has to presume that there were a lot of non-genre titles in there--certainly a lot of titles not normally considered part of F & SF.
Cool quote--thanks Andreas!
Steve
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Post by andydecker on Mar 26, 2021 17:51:25 GMT
That's a stupefying number of books from a library accumulated with a terminus of 1977. One has to presume that there were a lot of non-genre titles in there--certainly a lot of titles not normally considered part of F & SF. Cool quote--thanks Andreas! Steve You know, my thoughts exactly. So many books so long ago? I don't disbelieve the information, but a bit more context would have been helpful. On the other hand, in nearly 40 years a lot of sf books could have been published. |
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Post by dem bones on Mar 26, 2021 18:06:15 GMT
That's a stupefying number of books from a library accumulated with a terminus of 1977. One has to presume that there were a lot of non-genre titles in there--certainly a lot of titles not normally considered part of F & SF. Cool quote--thanks Andreas! Steve You know, my thoughts exactly. So many books so long ago? I don't disbelieve the information, but a bit more context would have been helpful. On the other hand, in nearly 40 years a lot of sf books could have been published. I think the reasoning was that SF outsold horror, so you'd have stuff like the six Popular Library Seabury Quinn de Grandin paperbacks (1976-77) marketed as 'science fiction' when they are pretty much everything but. |
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Post by Dr Strange on Mar 26, 2021 19:19:37 GMT
That's a stupefying number of books from a library accumulated with a terminus of 1977. One has to presume that there were a lot of non-genre titles in there--certainly a lot of titles not normally considered part of F & SF. You know, my thoughts exactly. So many books so long ago? I don't disbelieve the information, but a bit more context would have been helpful. On the other hand, in nearly 40 years a lot of sf books could have been published. I don't know, but an average of 100+ "SF" (broadly defined) books published each year during that time frame doesn't seem unreasonable to me - and I can believe it could have been well over that in the 60s-70s. No way he could have read them all of course... |
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Post by andydecker on Mar 27, 2021 11:18:08 GMT
You know, my thoughts exactly. So many books so long ago? I don't disbelieve the information, but a bit more context would have been helpful. On the other hand, in nearly 40 years a lot of sf books could have been published. I don't know, but an average of 100+ "SF" (broadly defined) books published each year during that time frame doesn't seem unreasonable to me - and I can believe it could have been well over that in the 60s-70s. No way he could have read them all of course... I had to read one of Schuyler Miller's short stories - which I thought truly terrible - and had to look him up. I only knew his contribution to Howard which was immortalized by de Camp. I was surprised that he was a regular reviewer and had seemingly written about hundreds of sf novels and won a Hugo for that. Maybe he got complimentary copies from publishers. |
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Post by šrincess šµuvstarr on May 11, 2021 11:11:02 GMT
You know, my thoughts exactly. So many books so long ago? I don't disbelieve the information, but a bit more context would have been helpful. On the other hand, in nearly 40 years a lot of sf books could have been published. I don't know, but an average of 100+ "SF" (broadly defined) books published each year during that time frame doesn't seem unreasonable to me - and I can believe it could have been well over that in the 60s-70s. No way he could have read them all of course... That's 8100 or so books, it is a lot but it's not beyond possible he read them all over 40 years. Many might have been pulps. I suppose it depends if you have the available time, he seems to have had a job as a reviewer which would help. Susan Sontag would often spend 8 hours or more a day reading. |
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