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A Different Vintage: Available Copies

Minor shelf/edge wear. Former library book with the usual stamps/stickers/markings.Otherwise very good.

Limited edition of 600 signed copies. First printing. Signed by Neal Barrett. Light crease to front cover of jacket, else book and dust jacket in fine condition.

Subterranean Press, Burton, MI, 2001. Hardcover Limited First edition, 320 pp. This is #260 of 600 numbered copies SIGNED by Barrett, who selects 12 of his choice "vintage" SF short stories and novellas from 1960-1979. Copy is unread and almost as new except for slight scruffing of DJ.

Publisher: Subterranean Press, 2001. First LIMITED Edition (#371/600), First Printing. SIGNED by the author on the LIMITATION Page. Hardcover is in near-fine condition (bumped on the bottom corner of the front cover). Dust jacket is in near-fine condition (edge wear). Brodart protected. 318 pages. Size: 8vo-over 7¾-9¾" tall. Award-winning writer Neal Barrett's career spans over forty years. A Different Vintage shares the unrestrained flavor of his sold out chapbook, The Day the Decorators Came, and includes over a dozen stories, from short shorts to long novellas, some not reprinted from their initial magazine publications four decades ago, all collected here for the first time, with an original introduction. Look up "vintage" and the dictionary will tell you "the crop of a single season," or an alternate definition: "choice." That's the definition I like the best. And I'd like to say that every one of the dozen stories here (from the crop of 1960-1979) is a topnotch example of the storyteller's craft. All right, get off my back, I won't say that, okay? The thing you can say about anyone's vintage stories is that they reflect the state of the art at the time. That doesn't mean we were all writing in the same manner, but it does mean that what we did both formed -- and reflected -- what was going on in the heads of writers, editors and readers in 1960, say, or 1975. Some of my stories (I'll speak for myself here, but you know what I mean) hold up well today, while others more .

Octavo, cloth. First edition. Limited to 626 copies of which this is one of 600 numbered copies signed by Barrett. Collects twelve stories. Corner tips lightly bruised, a nearly fine copy in nearly fine dust jacket tiny matching bruises. (#140174)

#185 of 600 numbered copies signed by the author on a special limitation page. Fine in fine dust jacket. Suitable for gift-giving. No markings, no bookplate, no remainder marks. No jacket tears or chips and jacket is not price-clipped.

318 pages. SIGNED by Neal Barrett, Jr. This first printing is a special edition limited to 626 copies, of which this is number 13, a magical number for the collector of fantasy and horror. We are listing more than 25 signed limited Subterranean Press titles that are number 13! The book is in as new condition in an as new dust jacket. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall

A Different Vintage by Neal Barrett, Jr. (First Edition) LTD Signed A sharp tight copy. Bright dust jacket. Half inch tear to lower edge of rear panel. Not price-clipped. Stated First Edition. #297 of 600 numbered copies. Signed by the Author on the limitation page.

Signed twice by author Neal Barrett Jr. On its limitation page at front of book is the author's signature, and printed: "This special signed edition is limited to 600 numbered copies and 26 lettered copies. This is copy [hand written] 580." And the author also signed the title page, with no personalization or inscription. This book is in near fine condition, marred only by a light bump on the bottom of its spine. Its binding is tight and square, with no spine crease. Covers are unmarked and otherwise unworn, with bright gilt titles on its spine. Pages are unworn and otherwise unmarked. Its dust jacket, now protected by a removable mylar cover, is in fine condition: whole, bright, unmarked, and unworn. I will ship this book in a moisture proof zip-loc bag, padded in bubble wrap, inside a sturdy box to assure it reaches its new owner in the same condition as my description.

Number 586 of 600 copies signed by Barrett on special limitation page. Collects twelve stories. Bound in tan cloth with lettering in gilt. A fine copy in fine and bright dust jacket. An as new copy.

Signed. Stated first edition, limited. #465 of 600. Signed. We try to note every flaw we can find, and we are quite picky, so buy with confidence! 100% guaranteed!

Size: 9.25"x 6.25", 318 pages. Cream cloth with silver lettering on the spine. #51/600 signed limited editions.

Fine signed limited edition copy. Number 521 of 600. Signed by author and numbered on a tipped-in signature page. A flawless copy of this collection of stories originally published between 1960 ans 1979. Clean, tight, square, no internal markings. Jacket has no tears or creases and has not been price clipped.

In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!

This is a presentation copy (PC) from a limited edition of 26 signed and lettered Copies: 26 tray cased, autographed copies 318 pages, blue clothbound hardcover with gold spine lettering, fine. Spine solid, binding sound. Dustjacket fine in Mylar. Tray case very good with minor shelf wear and scuffing. Pages very clean. Ships from Hawaii with free Priority Mail upgrade. Award-winning writer Neal Barrett's career spans over forty years. A Different Vintage shares the unrestrained flavor of his sold out chapbook, The Day the Decorators Came, and includes over a dozen stories, from short shorts to long novellas, some not reprinted from their initial magazine publications four decades ago, all collected here for the first time, with an original introduction. Look up "vintage" and the dictionary will tell you "the crop of a single season," or an alternate definition: "choice." That's the definition I like the best. And I'd like to say that every one of the dozen stories here (from the crop of 1960-1979) is a topnotch example of the storyteller's craft. All right, get off my back, I won't say that, okay? The thing you can say about anyone's vintage stories is that they reflect the state of the art at the time. That doesn't mean we were all writing in the same manner, but it does mean that what we did both formed--and reflected--what was going on in the heads of writers, editors and readers in 1960, say, or 1975. Some of my stories (I'll speak for myself here, but you know what I mean) hold up well today, while others more fully--and sometimes too well--reflect their own time. But that's the point, of course: that's what they were supposed to do, and that's why the editors bought them. I don't intend to even try to be humble on this particular point: I know I'm a hell of a lot better writer now than I was then, and so are the writers who were honing their skills at the time. Hey, I think we honed pretty well. I still like their vintage stuff, and I still like mine. You're going to run across some cigarette smokin' here, and possibly some less than proper attitudes relevant to the times, but I live with it, okay? I did, so can you --Neal Barrett, Jr. Limited: 600 autographed and numbered copies bound in full cloth, with a full-color dustjacket Lettered: 26 autographed copies bound in deluxe cloth, housed in a handcrafted traycase Subterranean Press. Lettered Edition: 26 autographed copies bound in deluxe cloth, housed in a handcrafted tray case.