Cleaning out the Closet, Continued

Edited to add: Ladies and Gentlemen, we have our winners!

I have here on my floor two sets of five Ace Liaden novels. These "sets" consist of:

Agent of Change, Conflict of Honors, Carpe Diem, Plan B, I Dare

These may be of use to someone, otherwise they're going to the library for the book sale. If you'd like to give them a home, the terms are the same like last week -- $2 a book, plus $5 shipping, for a grand total of $15.

If you want to adopt, sing out in comments The first two folks who speak up, with an email address where I can write to you and work out delivery details, win!

Hopefully, this way, everyone will be able to see when the books are gone.

Also! Watch this space for one more minor offering.


FACEPEEPS TAKE NOTE: This is an LJ-only offering. If you wish to adopt, then you need to follow this link: http://rolanni.livejournal.com/558461.html

Auction over

The auction for the unbound first edition I Dare is now over. Congratulations -- and thanks! -- to the lucky winner.

Still with the cleaning out the closet

EDITED TO ADD: Ladies and Gentlemen, we have our winners! Thank you all for your help and your collective good nature.

The last things left on the floor (absent the coon cat, sound asleep against the file cabinet, who is not included in this offering) are three "sets" of two books. Each "set" includes the Ace edition of Agent of Change and Conflict of Honors. Being the last out of the closet, these are a bit rough; there is some minor munging. All are brand new and perfectly readable; absolutely suitable for lending copies. Terms remain the same -- $2/book plus $5 shipping.

Since this worked out so well the last time, we'll do it again:

If you want to adopt, sing out in comments The first three folks who speak up, with an email address where I can write to you and work out delivery details, win!

FACEPEEPS: If you wish to adopt, you must use this link: http://rolanni.livejournal.com/558931.html

Partners in Necessity Hardcovers

EDITED TO ADD: Thank you. The four books have all found worthy homes, where I trust that they will bring joy. Thank you.


Steve has been double- and triple-filling the bookshelves in his office for a good long while, and the other day he noticed that one shelf was beginning to bend, um, Rather Alarmingly. So, in his abundant spare time, he's been cleaning the books out. Just two minutes ago he brought four -- four -- of the Meisha Merlin original hardcover printing of Partners in Necessity into my office and asked if I thought anybody would want them.

Well, I said, I'll ask.

Now, here's the thing -- the good folks over at ABEbooks are selling PiN hardcovers, in a range from $68.50 to $325. No, I don't know what the guy who wants three-and-a-quarter's drinking either, but that's the range. You can check it yourself.

What I did was added up the five offerings at ABE and averaged the price, which gives us $138.50. Steve thinks the guy over in the corner with the solid gold book is skewing things high, so after some back and forth, here's what we came up with:

We have four hard-to-find, brand new, never-been-read, hardcover Partners in Necessity, not only a first edition, but of a very limited number that were case bound. The original cover price for the print-to-subscription hardcover, in Year 2000 Bux, was $50.

These four books are up for adoption at $100/book, plus $5 media mail shipping. If the buyer desires insurance and/or other shipping arrangements, we can talk. If you are out of the country, we will likewise need to talk. We will sign and personalize the book to the buyer's instruction.

As before: If you want to adopt, sing out in comments The first four folks* who speak up, with an email address where I can write to you and work out delivery details, win!


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*In the interests of getting as many books to as many eager readers as possible, we are only placing one book to a family.