Found this in my bookshelf, it doesn’t have the dust jacket and honestly I don’t quite remember how I wound up with it?
:) My first independent best seller (as opposed to ones for licenced properties like Star Trek).
The SF Book Club / GuildAmerica sold 250,000 copies of this, setting the record—still unbroken, I think—for the volume most bought by new members joining the club.
The Mark Ferrari cover isn't exactly my favorite, but (shrug) it's hard to get too worked up about it at this late date...
vlady's closet
There’s something wildly therapeutic about getting rid of objects you used to treasure but is now just another thing taking up space. Just because something was once important doesn’t mean you have to hold onto it forever.
My roommate is doing a big clean out of the shed and I’m selling off my coffee roaster and magic the gathering cards. The roaster is just impractical and I’m not in specialty coffee anymore, magic is now just an old addiction I need to purge from my life.
Stonehenge Under Snow, photographed by Bill Brandt, 1944.
a CRITTER? Carrying a BERRY?? Across a BRAMBLE VINE?????
Edward Gorey (1925–2000), “Cemetery (Garden obelisks with skulls)”
pen and ink with wash on paper, 1980 — source
Jaroslav Panuška (1872–1958), “Vodník”
oil on cardboard, n.d. — source
Why don’t they make beautifully illustrated manuscripts like these anymore??😭
To The Night & The Cloud - Calligraphed and Illuminated by Jessie Bayes (1914)
