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What's your favourite collectible?
Tell us about your favourite King (or King-related) collectible.
My collection is very modest - I don't have any King-signed books, for example. My favourite collectible is probably my set of 5 F&SF issues in which the Gunslinger was first serialised. They're in very good condition, and I'm a Dark Tower freak.
At the risk of sounding like a sycophant, my favourite King-related collectible is a copy of Road to the Dark Tower, signed by our host, that I won for guessing the Re- word of DTVI.
HBJ
My collection is very modest - I don't have any King-signed books, for example. My favourite collectible is probably my set of 5 F&SF issues in which the Gunslinger was first serialised. They're in very good condition, and I'm a Dark Tower freak.
At the risk of sounding like a sycophant, my favourite King-related collectible is a copy of Road to the Dark Tower, signed by our host, that I won for guessing the Re- word of DTVI.
HBJ
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I definitely prefer collectibles that have a personal meaning like that. I think my favourite non-King collectible is a signed copy of The Runes of the Earth by Stephen Donaldson. The book itself isn't worth much money; signed copies of Runes are not hard to come by, and it is inscribed to me, which lowers its value. But it's a memento of my (finally) meeting him after twenty years of my enormous appreciation of his work.
HBJ
I do have a remarkably accurate Art Asylum Hand Phaser II reproduction (ie toy) from the original Star Trek that I constantly geek out with though.
I have a couple of first editions and limiteds... my friends just bought me the Dark Tower comic compilation for Christmas. Now I have to buy a 2nd one so I can check it out... can't let the first one out of the shrinkwrap!! LOL ;D
HBJ,
who has a 1st ed Gunslinger, but paid more than $75.
The first set of those I had, I committed an unspeakable atrocity upon! Before I got my 2nd edition Gunslinger in 1983-4, I cut them apart, bound them in cardboard and put a copy of the Whelan cover art from a Donald M. Grant flier on the front!
I also go a 1st/1st Gunslinger when it first came out for $20. I'm still kicking myself, though, for not getting one of the numbered editions, which at the time went for $60. I thought it was too much money. I still don't have one.
John
John
But....my favorite collectible is the postcard that he sent me in reply to a fan letter when I was 15. (In 1982) He typed it himself and signed it. I remember pretty much losing my mind when it came in the mail, running through our apt complex showing it to everyone but not allowing them to touch it, lol!
I showed it to him at the FaB8 signing...just wanted to tell him how much that had meant to me and how his line of "do well in school," was taken to heart.
Bev, I kick myself more than once a year for not getting that $20 for the first Dark Tower. I still have the form letter SK sent out to those of us who asked what DT was and how we could get it......ughhhhh. I was teenager with only paltry babysitting money but if only I'd known.....
Of course that also brought out the DT form letter from June 28, '84 that makes me want to tear my hair out, lol.
Oh well....maybe one day I'll find one at an estate sale or something... :P
John
John
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I've got it on good authority that only 16 of these were produced.
John