Sunday, July 04, 2010

Harlan Ellison Is Having a Sale

Harlan Ellison launches The Great Ellison Book Purge | Books | Newswire | The A.V. Club: "An author whose work fairly rejects any notion of “casual fandom,” Harlan Ellison has amassed such an impressive body of work that even he can’t find the storage space. Hearing that he plans to put a huge chunk of that impressive collection—from his personal archives—up for sale is definitely cause for freaking the fuck out. Early next week, Ellison and his wife Susan will launch the third edition of The Great Ellison Book Purge, a three-day sale of beyond-rare items from the Ellisons’ own library. You can check out a brochure of what’s on offer—complete with charmingly retro photocopied illustrations of the book jackets."

9 comments:

Gerard Saylor said...

Is this giving you ideas, Crider?

mybillcrider said...

It's what I should do, but his collection's considerably better than mine.

Gerard Saylor said...

All those old, obscure, and defunct magazines made me think of Lee Goldberg.

Brian Drake said...

Will each book come with an expletive-laden letter of authenticity?

Janet Rudolph said...

I've been purging my collection since May. It's hard, but no matter when I think I've made a dent, more arrive...

Good for Harlan.

George said...

That's an awesome collection of Ellison rarities. And the prices reflect it.

Anonymous said...

Sounds like Diane is going to be welcoming some new arrivals, George.

Or do you already have them all?

Jeff

George said...

There are plenty of items I don't own, Jeff. But the $4000 price tag on some of the primo books is a deal-breaker.

Stephen B. said...

I heard, I think, some years and years ago an earthquake hit and at Ellison Wonderland [his name for his home] the books toppled and might have fallen on him! So Ellison said.