Oops. There was a typo. It was $100 not $10 (a vendor at a Westercon who was *that* ignorant of values...). But I could still have afforded it easily enough.
Oh, that's far from the only time I've passed up something and then kicked myself later.
Sometime in the early 2000s I saw a hardcover of "The Hunt For Red October" at Powells. The Naval Institute one. Price wasn't even that high ($20 or less?). I just didn't get it.
Later I found out that that was the actual first printing/first edition.
Oh well.
Your Skylarking sounds good. And I'll have go get that Project Gutenburg file.
I am more than a bit annoyed that the trade paperback acid-free paper copies of the Lensman series didn't include The Vortex Blaster/Masters of the Vortex.
And they only did the first two Skylark books. While I can understand Skylark Duquesne not being included (it was printed in the 60s after all) Skylark of Valeron would have been nice, but I guess it didn't quite make it into public domain. and since the Smith estate has been such idiots about rights... *sigh*
I'll relocate my late sixties paperback copies of those two eventually.
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Date: 2017-10-29 03:08 pm (UTC)Oh, that's far from the only time I've passed up something and then kicked myself later.
Sometime in the early 2000s I saw a hardcover of "The Hunt For Red October" at Powells. The Naval Institute one. Price wasn't even that high ($20 or less?). I just didn't get it.
Later I found out that that was the actual first printing/first edition.
Oh well.
Your Skylarking sounds good. And I'll have go get that Project Gutenburg file.
I am more than a bit annoyed that the trade paperback acid-free paper copies of the Lensman series didn't include The Vortex Blaster/Masters of the Vortex.
And they only did the first two Skylark books. While I can understand Skylark Duquesne not being included (it was printed in the 60s after all) Skylark of Valeron would have been nice, but I guess it didn't quite make it into public domain. and since the Smith estate has been such idiots about rights... *sigh*
I'll relocate my late sixties paperback copies of those two eventually.