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April 9th:
Look, a monthly update done on time for a change! (if you don't count the fact that we missed last month all together...) There are several interesting things to talk about this month, and the first two have to do with Farmerphile. Issue 12 will be going to the printer for proofs by the end of the week and we should have the issue done and in the mail by the end of the month. We should also have the cover and table of contents listed online by the beginning of next week.
The bigger news however is that we're letting you in on a little secret about Farmerphile. Before this project began, it was decided there would be a limited edition of 25 copies of each issue signed by Philip José Farmer! 24 "subscribers" were found who agreed to purchase a signed copy of each issue through the original planned run of ten. These signed copies sold for $40 each. Unfortunately, of those 24 people, only 22 of them purchased the complete run. One person only bought the first two issues, and another only bought the first five. So right now, you can find a signed copy of issue 3, issue 4, issue 5, issue 6, issue 7, issue 8, issue 9, issue 10 and issue 11 on ebay. Once these auctions end on April 14th, we will most likely put the remaining signed copies of issues 5 through 11 online. And, yes, there are signed copies of the issues after the original ten. The 22 remaining subscribers have already purchased their signed copy of issue 11 and they have first crack at the last three or four issues. Two signed copies of issue 12, etc... will also eventually be put on ebay, unless someone purchases issues 3 through 11 or 6 through 11, then I will let them buy 12 and higher directly (just like the original subscribers). You may have noticed that there were only 24 subscribers out of the 25 sets. Yes, we do have one complete set of signed Farmerphiles available. In fact, it will be put on ebay in the next few days; issues 1 through 11, with a starting bid of $440. A newsletter will be sent at that time. While we haven't updated this website in nearly two months, ironically Rias, who used to update his site, The International Bibliography every few months, has been posting updates very frequently, at least once a week, lately. We can vouch for how time consuming websites of this size are, so kudos to him for the steady work and regular updates. We check in at least once a week to see what he has added to his site. Other than adding friends almost daily, we have not done a whole lot on our Myspace page since we put it up last August. However we recently added something really interesting that we found on youtube. In 1996 Phil was featured in a French documentary titled, Moi, Tarzan. You can order a French copy of the dvd at that link, or you can watch the English version of it online. First though, go to the Myspace page and watch the two minute video snippet we found on youtube. Since the last update, we have added three new items to the Uncorrected Proofs page. The first is for Phil's latest collection, VENUS ON THE HALF-SHELL AND OTHERS which came out shortly before they received the cover art for the book. As uncorrected proofs go (one of our favorite topics), with the nice glossy cover, this is one of the better looking ones. However, the other two we added to the webpage, but unfortunately not to our collection. Both of these were available on ebay, and in both cases we were outbid for them. In fact, we bid over $200 for this proof/advance reading copy of VENUS ON THE HALF-SHELL from 1975, but we were outbid in the final seconds of the auction. This would have been the oldest proof in the collection so we were very unhappy about losing this one. Although, had we won the auction for the uncorrected proof of DARE, it, then, would have been the oldest by ten years. Oh well, thankfully they put pictures of these in their auctions, so we can at least add them to the webpage. And one final note, speaking of VENUS ON THE HALF-SHELL AND OTHERS, both the $300 lettered and the $125 limited editions have sold out. The $38 trade edition won't last much longer. The hit counter as of April 9th says 192,107 which is 4,018 visits to this main page (not the entire website) since our last update on February 13th. |