Wow, thanks for the answer you guys. How on earth do you get proofs? Someone (publisher) reads them and at some stage posts them on an auction site? Thats actually really exciting Paul, 2 of them :-). I have heard of the "infamous" brown bomber. Lani (Publishers or proof readers must have an excellent job)
Date: Tue, 28 May 2013 10:28:57 +1000 Subject: Re: Magician - Grafton Edition. From: [email protected] To: [email protected] Hi all, I have a few proofs, but not a Magician. I have a lovely Silverthorn proof and an even better Darkness at Sethanon proof, but sadly, no original Magician brown bomber IIRC. (yet!) Paul On 28 May 2013 10:21, DC <[email protected]> wrote: The Magician manuscript that Richard mentioned in his post was a typewritten copy of Ray's manuscript with handwritten corrections in the margins. Last I had heard was that there were 8 of these that were photocopied, and bound with a plain manilla cover and were done before the first printing of Magian in 1982. Sounds like a few more have surfaced over the last few years. John will have to chime in here, but last I heard from him this was the rarest piece in his collection. There are a few other pieces that are unique (one of a kind), but not of Ray's first work so I would not deem them as valuable as the Magician ms. I could be totally out of date here, so wait for John's say so... I always do! Have a good one! -Devin Sent from my iPad On May 25, 2013, at 12:42 AM, Lani cat <[email protected]> wrote: Hi Devin, Hey what is a "Manuscript".......is it a "pre" proof read edition that is sent out to publisher? (curious) Lani Date: Fri, 24 May 2013 17:46:06 -0600 Subject: Re: Magician - Grafton Edition. From: [email protected] To: [email protected] 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 [email protected] +44(0)7557 652 609 Join us: To be included on our newsletter or to sell books email: [email protected]
