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yeah ok so i've kinda gotten into book collecting. i've only paid over a thousand for three books: ~$5,000 for a signed kinda beaten up first edition of <i> | yeah ok so i've kinda gotten into book collecting. i've only paid over a thousand for three books: ~$5,000 for a signed kinda beaten up first edition of <i>Finnegans Wake</i>, ~$3,000 for a signed like new ARC of <i>Infinite Jest</i> (later sold for $5,000), and $3,000 for an unsigned first edition of <i>Gravity's Rainbow</i> (later sold for $4,500). I have no intentions of selling the <i>Wake</i>. | ||
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* Signed first <i>American Prometheus</i> | * Signed first <i>American Prometheus</i> | ||
* Signed first <i>A Clockwork Orange</i> | * Signed first <i>A Clockwork Orange</i> | ||
* Signed first <i>The Soul of a New Machine</i> | * Signed first <i>The Soul of a New Machine</i> | ||
* Signed first <i>The Emperor of All Maladies</i> | * Signed first <i>The Emperor of All Maladies</i> | ||
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* Signed first Leyner (<i>My Cousin, My Gastroenterologist</i>, paperback) | * Signed first Leyner (<i>My Cousin, My Gastroenterologist</i>, paperback) | ||
* Signed first Gibson (<i>Burning Chrome</i>) | * Signed first Gibson (<i>Burning Chrome</i>) | ||
* Signed first Joyce (<i> | * Signed first Joyce (<i>Finnegans Wake</i>) | ||
* Signed first Penrose (<i>The Road to Reality</i>) | * Signed first Penrose (<i>The Road to Reality</i>) | ||
* Signed first Ginsberg (<i>Howl and Other Poems</i>, City Lights paperback, no hardback first exists) | * Signed first Ginsberg (<i>Howl and Other Poems</i>, City Lights paperback, no hardback first exists) | ||
* Signed first Ferlinghetti (<i>Coney Island of the Mind and Other Poems</i>, City Lights paperback, no hardback first exists) | * Signed first Ferlinghetti (<i>Coney Island of the Mind and Other Poems</i>, City Lights paperback, no hardback first exists) | ||
* Signed Wilson (<i>Illuminatus!</i> trilogy, omnibus paperback edition | * Signed Wilson (<i>Illuminatus!</i> trilogy, omnibus paperback edition) | ||
* Signed Aaronson (<i>Quantum Computing Since Democritus</i>, paperback, no hardback exists) | * Signed Aaronson (<i>Quantum Computing Since Democritus</i>, paperback, no hardback exists) | ||
* Signed Schrödinger (lecture notes, not a book) | * Signed Schrödinger (lecture notes, not a book) | ||
* Signed first Rhodes (<i>The Making of the Atomic Bomb</i>) | |||
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==Greg Egan== | ==Greg Egan== | ||
Greg Egan has a (presumably authoritative, but at this time incomplete) bibliography on [https://www.gregegan.net/BIBLIOGRAPHY/Bibliography.html his site]; I'm collecting his English-language hardbacks. His early works were generally released in the UK before the USA. To count (indicated by <b>boldface</b>), it must be a first edition first printing hardback in decent condition. A lot of his early covers are just ghastly, but enjoyable in a kitschy way. The earlier books are generally better than the more recent ones IMHO. | |||
My favorite is <i>Schild's Ladder</i>; the first chapter of <i>Diaspora</i> is one of my favorite pieces of writing anywhere. | |||
===Novels=== | ===Novels=== | ||
* <b>Morphotrophic (2024)</b> | * <b>Morphotrophic (2024)</b> | ||
* Scale (2023) | * <b>Scale (2023)</b> | ||
* The Book of All Skies (2021) | * <b>The Book of All Skies (2021)</b> | ||
* <b>Dichronauts (2017)</b> | * <b>Dichronauts (2017)</b> | ||
* Orthogonal Book Three: The Arrows of Time ( | * <b>Orthogonal Book Three: The Arrows of Time (2014)</b> | ||
* <b>Orthogonal Book Two: The Eternal Flame (2012)</b> | * <b>Orthogonal Book Two: The Eternal Flame (2012)</b> | ||
* <b>Orthogonal Book One: The Clockwork Rocket (2011 | * <b>Orthogonal Book One: The Clockwork Rocket</b> (UK 2011, <b>USA 2011</b>) | ||
* Zendegi (2010) | * <b>Zendegi</b> (UK 2010, <b>USA 2010)</b> | ||
* Incandescence (2008) | * <b>Incandescence</b> (UK 2008, <b>USA 2008</b>) | ||
* <b>Schild's Ladder (2002)</b> | * <b>Schild's Ladder (UK 2002, USA 2002)</b> | ||
* Teranesia (1999) | * <b>Teranesia (UK 1999, USA 1999)</b> | ||
* <b>Diaspora (UK 1997, USA 1998)</b> | * <b>Diaspora (UK 1997, USA 1998)</b> | ||
* <b>Distress | * <b>Distress (UK 1995, USA 1997</b>) | ||
* <b>Permutation City | * <b>Permutation City (UK 1994, USA 1995)</b> | ||
* <b>Quarantine | * <b>Quarantine (UK 1992, USA 1995)</b> | ||
** Egan doesn't list a 1995 USA hardback, but it's a scifi book of the month club [https://www.reddit.com/r/BookCollecting/comments/1f040tj/comment/ljp9g2q USA "first edition"] | |||
** Only 500 copies of the UK 1992 hardback are thought to have been printed | |||
===Collections=== | ===Collections=== | ||
<i>Sleep and the Soul</i> and <i>Instantiation</i> are print-on-demand. <i>Our Lady of Chernobyl</i> didn't have a hardcover release. <i>Axiomatic</i> and <i>Oceanic</i> didn't have real hardcover USA releases. The hardback Subterranean Press <i>Best of Greg Egan</i> is a hand-numbered run of one thousand copies. | |||
* The Best of Greg Egan (2019) | * <b>The Best of Greg Egan (2019)</b> (#587) | ||
* <b>Crystal Nights (2009)</b> | * <b>Crystal Nights (2009)</b> | ||
* <b>Dark Integers (2008)</b> | * <b>Dark Integers (2008)</b> | ||
===One-offs=== | ===One-offs=== | ||
* <b>The Four Thousand, the Eight Hundred (2016)</b> | All of these Subterranean Press releases are hand-numbered limited runs of one thousand copies. | ||
* <b>Dispersion (2020)</b> (#741, #876, #976) | |||
* <b>Phoresis (2018)</b> (#665) | |||
* <b>The Four Thousand, the Eight Hundred (2016)</b> (#251) | |||
===Unamerican items=== | |||
See notes above. | |||
* Oceanic (UK 2009) | |||
* Axiomatic (UK 2005) | |||
* <b>Luminous (UK 1998)</b> | |||
* <b>An Unusual Angle (AUS 1983)</b> | |||
** Only 100 copies of the hardback are thought to have been printed | |||