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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 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> | * Signed first Rhodes (<i>The Making of the Atomic Bomb</i>) | ||
===Signed at publisher=== | ===Signed at publisher=== | ||
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* <b>Diaspora (UK 1997, USA 1998)</b> | * <b>Diaspora (UK 1997, USA 1998)</b> | ||
* <b>Distress (UK 1995, USA 1997</b>) | * <b>Distress (UK 1995, USA 1997</b>) | ||
* <b>Permutation City | * <b>Permutation City (UK 1994, USA 1995)</b> | ||
* <b>Quarantine (UK 1992, USA 1995)</b> | * <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"] | ** 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"] | ||