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Post by ian on Jul 18, 2009 8:31:52 GMT
Just out of interest, has anybody managed to complete their GNS collection?
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Post by shanea on Jul 18, 2009 8:41:15 GMT
I now finally have a full set of GNS novels. Just got a copy of the original deadbeat. Now I just need them all signed...and what about all the chapbooks( missing 1).....and his short stories in other books and magazine...and the signed cover proofs...DOH!!!
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Post by steppedonwolf on Jul 18, 2009 21:34:54 GMT
I've got all the novels released under his name and Gavin Newman, except 50 Tales From the Fifties.
Didn't bother with the Jonathan Guy books or the Disney novelisations, or the chapbooks as the stories in those have been compiled in the Black Hill Books collections.
The only thing I'm really after now is the second edition of Bamboo Guerillas, the one with the picture of the charging Jap soldier on the cover. Funkdooby says he's found loads of copies of it in the past, but I haven't found a single one.
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Post by ian on Jul 18, 2009 21:40:10 GMT
At one point, i had 57 of his books but most of this lot went when the need for money took priority but I did keep my copy of Bamboo guerillas. (Standard cover, sorry Ade)
I think I'm up to about 15 now.
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Post by darrelljoyce on Jul 19, 2009 2:13:43 GMT
Just out of interest, has anybody managed to complete their GNS collection? What counts as 'complete' ? I have nearly all of his books (including copies of more than one edition of some of the rare ones), but there's always more to get.
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Post by shanea on Jul 20, 2009 6:16:14 GMT
I suppose 'complete' is hard to define but here is my take . All first editions - 73 horror/thriller GNS novels, 4 disney novels - 2 Gavin newman novels - 5 jonathan guy novels - 12 non-fiction books - 4 self published books(50 tales from 50s etc) - 5 chap books - 1 graphic novel . You may want to include different editions/covers/foriegn etc. Thats my take anyone else want a go :-)
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Post by darrelljoyce on Jul 20, 2009 18:39:53 GMT
I suppose 'complete' is hard to define but here is my take . All first editions - 73 horror/thriller GNS novels, 4 disney novels - 2 Gavin newman novels - 5 jonathan guy novels - 12 non-fiction books - 4 self published books(50 tales from 50s etc) - 5 chap books - 1 graphic novel . You may want to include different editions/covers/foriegn etc. Thats my take anyone else want a go :-) Yes, I would - because if we're talking completism, we'd have to include the hard-to-find foreign language editions (some of which have been auctioned by GNS himself at his Conventions).
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Post by shanea on Jul 20, 2009 19:22:53 GMT
There seems to be quite a few of those for sale on a certain well known internet trading site at the moment. Your right where do you stop! I have found myself starting to collect his work in magazines/books such as Fear, Peeping Tom, Frightners etc. Is it collection or obsession !!
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Post by shanea on Jul 20, 2009 19:27:35 GMT
By the way is anyone going down to the convention this year?
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Post by steppedonwolf on Jul 20, 2009 21:32:38 GMT
I'm hoping to, but it clashes with the Wallingford Bunkfest. As long as I don't get too pissed up on the Saturday before I'll be there.
Anyone else?
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Post by ian on Jul 21, 2009 19:54:14 GMT
What's the date?
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Post by darrelljoyce on Jul 22, 2009 19:21:11 GMT
By the way is anyone going down to the convention this year? I'd like to go, but it could be problematical. Depends who's going to be there. *cough*
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Post by steppedonwolf on Jul 23, 2009 17:17:42 GMT
I think it's the first Sunday in September, as in previous years, but it's yet to be confirmed.
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Post by shanea on Jul 24, 2009 6:16:04 GMT
I've been told the 6th of September
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Post by Dreadlocksmile on Jul 24, 2009 8:06:04 GMT
I keep planning to go to this but so far have never made it.
I might well finally manage it this year. Although, if I drive over I won't be drinking during it.
Anyone been before? What's involved in the event? Or is it just a BBQ with the man himself?
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