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| Tweet Topic Started: Mar 11 2015, 12:01 AM (1,018 Views) | |
| Ashmire | Mar 11 2015, 12:01 AM Post #1 |
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I've been wanting to re-read Foreigner ahead of the new one coming out, but found I was missing some volumes, so I stopped by a used bookstore on my way home tonight and picked up a good copy of "Invader" for fairly cheap, $6. Imagine my surprise to open it and find it autographed by both :cherryh: and Michael Whelan. Not quite as cool as getting it autographed to me, but nice all the same. I wonder if the person it was autographed to is known here? |
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| Kokipy | Mar 14 2015, 11:41 PM Post #2 |
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I would be reasonably confident that no Associate here would deliberately, while alive, part with an autographed CJC book :) I mean, that would be just WRONG. But lucky you, Ashmire-Ji. What a find. I have a couple and they are my prized biblio possessions. Edited to say, but I see that was not what you said. It may well be that the person to whom it was autographed is known here. Can you share the name? |
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| starexplorer | Mar 15 2015, 12:55 AM Post #3 |
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First Contact Assassin
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My prized signed :cherryh: book was the one I acquired made out to some guy named "Marshall", until I received an even more prized one made out to "Starexplorer" |
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| Kokipy | Mar 15 2015, 01:23 AM Post #4 |
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I thought it was Hubert, Star. My memory is tricking me :) or maybe it was Marshal Hubert? Or Hubert Marshall? Neither of whom hold a candle to yourself, of course. But if Ashmire now has custody of another HM, or MH, as the case may be, wouldn't that be wonderful ! |
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| hrhspence | Mar 15 2015, 01:48 AM Post #5 |
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Hani Assassin
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I remember that whole discussion on Marshall! That was a long time ago. |
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| starexplorer | Mar 15 2015, 01:51 AM Post #6 |
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First Contact Assassin
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Actually, I thought it was Herbert Marshall, or Marshall Herbert, but I just checked and it's actually "For Marshall, best wishes, CJ Cherryh" |
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| hrhspence | Mar 15 2015, 02:11 AM Post #7 |
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Hani Assassin
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I think we were trying to figure out what the rest of the name was and we decided Herbert must have gone with it. |
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| Ashmire | Mar 15 2015, 02:20 AM Post #8 |
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:) It's someone named Shirley. I'd have a hard time imagining why anyone would part with an autographed copy, too---which always raises the sad spectre of an involuntary parting! |
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| Kokipy | Mar 15 2015, 11:27 AM Post #9 |
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She probably had to sell it to get money to feed her starving infant- no less dire emergency could have justified an otherwise unaccountable act. |
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| BlueCatShip | Mar 15 2015, 12:03 PM Post #10 |
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Unlabelled Browncoat Scaper
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One hopes Shirley is still around somewhere and was later able to get another book. At least it's good that someone else, who will appreciate it, got a good book, and autographed besides. That ought to make Shirley feel better, whoever and wherever she is. |
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| starexplorer | Mar 15 2015, 03:37 PM Post #11 |
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First Contact Assassin
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No doubt she cherished it, and made it part of her estate. |
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| hrhspence | Mar 15 2015, 03:45 PM Post #12 |
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Hani Assassin
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It may have been that Shirley has since departed this life and her ungrateful and ignorant heirs just didn't recognize the book for what it truly was. |
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| starexplorer | Mar 15 2015, 04:08 PM Post #13 |
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First Contact Assassin
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Great minds, spence-ji.... |
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| hrhspence | Mar 15 2015, 04:15 PM Post #14 |
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Hani Assassin
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oh, yeah, I see you said the same thing. . . |
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| Kokipy | Mar 15 2015, 05:59 PM Post #15 |
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sharper than a serpent's tooth is an ungrateful child. As my father used to say with some regularity. |
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