Gollancz Yellow Jackets

K. Riehl said:
Omphalos- "But does anyone in the States remember the Gregg Press from Boston? David G. Hartwell was the editor."

Yes I have a few of the Gregg Press editions. I think there is a complete collection, with about 1/3 of the copies signed, for sale on Ebay at a mere pittance of $40,000. They include many pictures in the listing.

Who wants to buy it for me? (-:
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I saw that a while ago at Red Dragon's eBay store. I looked a few weeks ago and they dont seem to be up there any longer. I wonder if he sold them, or just took them down to sell individually?

I have thier pressings of A Canticle for Liebowitz, The Last Unicorn and a few others. They are very bear bones. I think that they were produced for high school libraries or something.
 
Connavar of Rigante said:
I understand that.
Still it is in print in UK atleast in paperback version since 2005. Which is how old my copy is.


What do Gollancz do then? Let Moon be in the list even though its in print in UK for years now? If they are UK based then they shouldnt reprint what you can find in print in UK . What is in print in UK or US only doesnt really matter for a modern reader. When i order my books from bookshop, it cost as much getting UK or US version.
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Profit is the motive, of course. If the current publisher isnt printing enough, or if they can produce an edition with something special in it that the other guys dont have, or even if htey can do it cheaper than the other guys, then if htey can secure the rights or already have them, why not?
 
GOLLUM said:
I think they call that supply and demand.

I've got the entire VG Fantasy Masterwork series, very affordable reissues of old classics.
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Another sort of Masterwork series or you talking Gollancz one that have both SF/F ?
 
I have several:

Engine Summer, John Crowley
The Little Black Bag, Philip K Dick
The Priests of Psi, Frank Herbert
Dad's Nuke, Mark Laidlaw
Pioneers, Phillip Mann
Four Hundred Billion Stars and Secret Harmonies, Paul J McAuley
Sunstroke and Other Stories, Deathhunter, God's World, The Very Slow Time Machine, Alien Embassy, The Jonah Kit, The Fire Worm, Evil Water, Queenmagic Kingmagic, Slow Birds, Chekhov's Journey and Salvage Rites - all by Ian Watson
The Fifth Head of Cerberus, Gene Wolfe
 
So is Phillip Mann. And he's not so far away from you, Gully. He lives in NZ.
 
I collect the yellow Gollancz SF 1st's so I have quite a few, perhaps 200 or so. I found those editions to be the way-in to the whole genre for me - apart from the fact that the books themselves have almost an austere beauty, the selections were top-notch.

At the moment I'm reading the Gollancz yellow 'Twightlight of Briareus' by Richard Cowper, pub 1974.
 
AE35Unit said:
I have a yellow Gollancz first edition of Fritz Leiber's A Spectre is Haunting Texas but try as I might I can't get into it
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I found The Wanderer to be the best entry point into Leiber's work. It's a multi-pov novel that is years ahead of its time - that kind of narrative spread didn't really reach vogue until the late's 70's/early 80's. It's also a very beautiful evocation of an alien counter-culture, just as the 60's were getting under way.

I don't actually have Spectre in the Gollancz format, thank for drawing my attention to the fact that they published it. My copy of The Wanderer is an original H/B UK Dobson that took a few years to track down.
 
I have one called Stand alone Stan (I can't remember who the author was) but i really enjoyed this one alot. Something to do with Pioneers.

I also have three of the collected stories of Philip K. Dick. These were superb. (Beyond lies the Wub, the Father Thing and Second Variety.)
 
I did think about selling it,i seem to remember paying a fair bit for it from a second hand book stall years ago so imagined it might be worth a bit by now. Could never work out how to value it tho and I don't think its so easy to sell books now thanks to ebay
 
AE35Unit said:
I did think about selling it,i seem to remember paying a fair bit for it from a second hand book stall years ago so imagined it might be worth a bit by now. Could never work out how to value it tho and I don't think its so easy to sell books now thanks to ebay
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There must be specialists on the Net. What about Charing Cross Road?
 
I actually don't have any Gollancz yellows at the moment - but I vividly remember, that when I was first falling into the joys of SF in the '60's, that I was grateful for the fact that they stood out on the library shelves like beacons in the night...
 
Apart from ebay, Abebooks is probably the best online source. The sellers there aren't selling them because they're yellow 1st's but simply because they're stock. So the prices are very good.
 
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