Help me find the fortress!

[Lurue-Blackheart]

My mother has went on a cleaning rampage and she has thrown away my art, some drawings my girlfriend made me (including this awesome chaos symbol tattoo i was going to get) AND i cant find my 1st ed hardback fortress of the pearl i had. i mean come on mom! i have been looking for that book on the internet. i think i saw it for 35 bucks or somthing. Does anyone know where i can find it cheaper? either she tossed it in the trash or my friend stole it. When i told him it was a first edition book he was like "wow dude that has to be worth like 1,000 bucks or somthing!" i told him it was worth that much to me so i kinda suspect him of stealing it. What a bummer, thats one of my favorites!!!! :x
If someone has a 1st ed they want to sell please let me know (Especially if its signed, I'll drop a good amount for that!)

So frustrating.........

[Lurue-Blackheart]

I was just thinking, What is the rareist EC book written? i am big on collecting MM's books and i would like to have ALL the 1st editions but i dont know if that will ever happen. I only had one (Which was fortress of the pearl) but now its gone. anyone know anything about furthering my collection? a good web site? a personal buy i could make, anything! Call me a fanatic but i think that they are really good buys for one who loves EC novels! :lol:

[DiGiMac]

If you're serious about collecting, I think there was an alt.books newgroup about 2 centuries ago. Still active?
Even better, join the Nomads (link on the left).

I wonder if that plug will get me a free subscription renewal...

[Michael Moorcock]

Let me have an email address, Blackheart. You can send it via Berry, if you like. Or post it to me via Howard Morhaim whose address is listed.

Linda's mother threw out all her old Sun records (Elvis, Jerry Lee Lewis, you name 'em) and Linda never ceases to show her the latest price guide on what she threw away. My mother never threw anything of mine out.
But I did. How I wish I still had that long run of EAGLE... :)

To answer the general question, many firsts are still available at reasonable prices via John Davey, who remains the most reasonable supplier of out of print work I know.

[TheEighthSon]

I saw a version of Dreamthief's Daughter for sale on Amazon UK, when it was first released, that cost several thousand, and was "To Be Released" for about six months, with no description. 8O

They never did answer my email about it either... :lol:

[Kalessin]

Linda's mother threw out all her old Sun records (Elvis, Jerry Lee Lewis, you name 'em) and Linda never ceases to show her the latest price guide on what she threw away. My mother never threw anything of mine out.
But I did. How I wish I still had that long run of EAGLE... :)

Ahhh, the mighty Mekon... :)

[Michael Moorcock]

That was no doubt the beautifully illustrated edition, which wasn't several thousand, even at its top price. There are still some around, I understand, at a fairly reasonable price now. I must say it's the handsomest Elric book ever, even including the special illustrated editions done in the 70s (or 80s, I forget). Bud Plant might have some. He tends to have all the good illustrated stuff.

[TheEighthSon]

Wasn't the illustrated one, I remember that much... I think someone messed up on the data input and forgot about it, or a bug or something.
I was doing a search for your books and it was about fifteen pages into the search results. Dreamthief's Daughter DUMP, and a load of mumbo jumbo after it- definitely wasn't a proper book :? That said, it was something that could have been bought. I was gonna try, but thought better of it...

[Lurue-Blackheart]

YES MY MOTHER IS REALY CRAZY! i couldn't believe it when i went into my room and everything was gone off of my floors and my bookcase was empty so she could throw on some tacky decorations!! i am 18 years old! i can decorate my own room!!!!! :lol:

Thanks alot Mr.M i'll give you that e-mail addy!
And thanks to everyone else who helped...... i dunno why i am double posting, i think my comp is messed up or somthing... sorry

[Lurue-Blackheart]

Mr.M, i will send you my e-mail through howard morhaim, i tried through berry but i dont know if he got my e-mail so i will post it to Howard Morhaim. Hopefully it gets forwarded to you. thanks a bunch MR.M!!!! i told my mom what happened with the book and she said "Oops, i was just tring to make room for decorations. How was i supposed to know it was an important book?" i was outraged! i should go through her room and throw away her wedding pictures or somthing and say i didnt think they were important to you! :twisted: j/k :lol:

[Michael Moorcock]

What is it with these mothers ? Perfectly decent human beings most of the time and then suddenly there's Attila the Mum rampaging through your territory.

[HawkLord]

Hehe I know exactaly what you mean.

Its usually the 'you cant play your music so loud' or 'turn that guiatr down, we've got neighbours!' that does it for me!
But the most annoying thing is when my mom just walks in and turns down me music without asking.

[Michael Moorcock]

There are various strategies here. You could wear headphones all the time and then hint that you're listening to porn, demonic spells and so on. Then you can argue -- would you rather hear what I'm listening to or would you rather I listened to stuff in secret ? Mind you, I'm somewhat on your mother's side re. loud music. Linda's Adam Ant period was pretty hard to take, I know. It wasn't so much my kid's taste in music that I minded -- but I couldn't take that much Adam Ant. Not that I ever went into her room and turned it down. The answer, of course, is to wear headphones of your own. Maybe you should buy your mother a nice pair for Christmas ? :)

[HawkLord]

Lol my dad already wears earphones but he's usually pretty cool anout listening to music. I try not to listen to my music too loud though.
They don't mind as much anymore because I'm always away at band practice and I don't have as much time to listen to loud music.

I would use headphones...but they always break. In the past two or three months I've had about three or four pairs of headphones. Every time one headphone broke and I had to buy a new pair. I think they're designed to break or something, so you always have to buy new ones.

[Michael Moorcock]

Break ? You mean explode ? You really ought to turn that Hawkwind down, you know... :)