Hah! I've one of the original manuscripts that John has never gotten his hands on...! I didn't realize that so many have popped up over the years. That's what I get for taking such a long break from the list.
-Devin On Tue, May 21, 2013 at 5:06 PM, Richard Williamson <[email protected]>wrote: > Hi Simon, > > Can you turn off the images in your postings? This is a text-only list, > inserting images tends to annoy as there are some people who don't have the > bandwidth to handle them (either they pay by the k, or they live in places > where the Internet is this vague *waggles fingers dismissively* thing that > never caught on). It may be that the image you've attached is quite small, > it's just we have a zero-tolerance policy to prevent other people from > thinking it's ok to do... > > The person who can answer your question exactly (if the answer is > available) is John but he's just lost his dad so his responses may be > delayed. > > From what I remember, the original (orange? cover) Grafton was published > in/around 1982, the '88 is either a reprint, the limp, a book club or > misidentified. The 1982 Grafton HC 1st, there were probably less then 2k > published (there were only about that many of the US true 1st '82 > Magician). Looking through Crydee, is this the one you have?: > > http://www.crydee.com/node/3805 > > which apparently doesn't show print runs, sorry. The original Grafton 1st > UK HC is so rare, I think John doesn't have a copy of it in his collection > (which is the largest in the world, by far). To compare, there were > exactly a dozen photocopies of the original Magician ms, complete with > Ray's hand-written markup after typing it out... John's possibly owned all > of them at one time or another. Probably at the same time. > > That's Ray's official website btw. The aforementioned John is the keeper > of it. > > rip > > > On Tue, May 21, 2013 at 3:29 PM, Simon Patterson < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi There, >> >> I'm a rare bookseller from Leeds in the UK, I specialise in speculative >> fiction. A few weeks ago I acquired a copy of Magician in hardback >> published in 1988 by Grafton. I understand that the print run was quite >> low >> - does anybody have any numbers? >> >> Thank you in advance - I've subscribed to the list, I like to get to know >> a >> bit about the authors I sell. >> >> Simon >> >> >> -- >> >> Simon J. Patterson >> Bookseller, Leeds, UK. >> Associate Member of the ABA and Member of the PBFA >> >> * <http://www.hyraxia.com/> >> * >> >> ** >> * >> >> [email protected] >> ** >> >> +44(0)7557 652 609 >> * >> >> *Join us:* >> <http://www.facebook.com/hyraxia> >> <http://twitter.com/#!/hyraxia><http://www.aba.org.uk/> >> >> *To be included on our newsletter or to sell books email: * >> [email protected] >> > >
