Stephen King, Joan Didion, William Hope Hodgson, Ray Bradbury, Ian Fleming, Alan Moore, etc.
New Arrivals Lists + Catalogs
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Nearly fifty newly catalogued items in my inventory, including a number of scarce graphic novels.
Another Stephen King collection acquired recently, with additions from other sources. Many of these books were purchased before 2000 and kept in storage ever since.
The comics and pulps returned to the James Strand family after they were stolen in 2023. Many were recovered by the FBI. Some were returned by the people who bought them from the thieves and fences.
These comics will go on sale exclusively at MyComicShop on June 15: MyComicShop.com/stores/StrandEstate
The Stephen King books, proofs, and a manuscript recovered by law enforcement after James Strand's library was looted. Read more in Dispatches from the Rare Book Trade.
A box and a half of Arkham House titles from the James Strand collection, including a number that were stolen and then seized by law enforcement. Each copy includes the Strand estate bookplate on the front pastedown.
Eve Babitz • Elizabeth Bisland • Karen Blixen • Ray Bradbury • Percival Everett • John Fante • Ernest Gaines • Friedrich Hayek • Frank Herbert • Stephen King • E. L. Konigsburg • Abby Mann • Alan Moore • Helen Palmer + more
The first list of books from the collection of James Strand, most of whose collection was stolen after he died in August 2023. Many of these books are crime fiction he bought new in the last 1950s and 1960s. Most weren't stolen; a few were seized by law enforcement from the thieves and come with the evidence tags.