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This Book Needs No Introduction by Harlan Ellison® (HEBPP, 2019) – First Edition Trade Paperback

$60.00

This is one of four books published for backers of The Harlan Ellison Books Preservation Project Kickstarter, which I launched in 2016.

When the books were finally printed in 2019, I ordered a 5% overrun to insure against books mishandled by the printers, in transit to me, or after being shipped to the Kickstarter backers. (Half the copies of two of the titles were also lost by UPS, forcing me to order duplicates of those books. Most of the original cartons eventually arrived months later, though at least one box never did.)

The original plan was to offer these titles to people who purchased the entire Edgeworks Abbey Archive library, but Susan Ellison’s death derailed that scenario.

Now that 99% of the project’s backers have responded over the last five years and received their rewards, I’m selling off the excess copies, per my agreement with the Ellisons.

Some of the copies have cosmetic damage, so I will fulfill the earliest orders with the best copies.

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THIS BOOK NEEDS NO INTRODUCTION BY HARLAN ELLISON because it is a book of nothing but introductions (and–to be fair–a few afterwords, prefaces, and similar such front- and back-matters). Given that I’ve published so many non-fiction collections filled with various Ellison introductions, you may well wonder, “What qualifies an intro to end up in this book rather than, say, FOE: Friends of Ellison or WHY DO YOU CALL ME ISHMAEL WHEN YOU KNOW MY NAME IS BERNIE?” This book is pretty much comprised of introductions that aren’t terribly standalone, the sort of introductions where Harlan specifically discussed the content of whatever he was introducing in such a way that the reader might be annoyed at not being able to turn to page forty-five to see the picture Harlan just described.
Yes, THIS BOOK NEEDS NO INTRODUCTION BY HARLAN ELLISON can be an annoying book in that respect, but this is a Preservation Project–we’re going to have to annoy someone! What sort of introductions are we talking here? We’re talking “lost” introductions to Ellison books like SPACEMAN ALONE (the book was never published), A TOUCH OF INFINITY (the book has never been reprinted), the second and third volumes of the paperback edition of DANGEROUS VISIONS, the UK-only collection TIME OF THE EYE, THE ILLUSTRATED ELLISON, the Swedish collection ENSAMVÄRK OCH ANDRA BERÄTTELSER (which incorporates the intro to the omnibus collection DREAMS WITH SHARP TEETH), JOKES WITHOUT PUNCHLINES (which borders on illegible in the printed version), and the Estonian collection KOLETIS, KES KUULUTAS ARMASTUST MAAILMA SÜDAMES. There are also introductions to bookby Gerald Kersh, Richard E. Geis, Michael Perkins, James Sutherland, Arthur Byron Cover, Terry Carr, Bruce Sterling, Richard A. Lupoff, Terry Dowling, Roberta Lannes, Jacques Futrelle, and a handful of artists Harlan admired. If you’re one of those people who pitch Ellison books to your friends by saying, “Harlan’s introductions are even better than his stories,” this is the one for you.
Edited by Jason Davis.
Cover photographs by Jacques Chambon.
Contents:
Context on the Lack of Context by Jason Davis
(Definitely Not an) Introduction to THE MIRROR OF NIGHT
A Word About Individuality
How I Got Sick
Kersh, the Demon Prince
Postscript to THE RAVISHED
Postscript to THE TOUR: Hell’s Heated Vacancies
Introduction to DANGEROUS VISIONS, Volume 2
Introduction to DANGEROUS VISIONS, Volume 3
Introduction, in Brief, to THE TIME OF THE EYE
Gale Warning
The ΦΨΩ of ABC
Nice Guys Finish Somewhere in the Middle
A Fineness of 0.995
Sailing the Dark with the Bentfin Boomer Bappa Zappa Kid
Afterword to THE ILLUSTRATED HARLAN ELLISON
Introducing Doctor Who
Introduction to WORMWOOD
Good Morning, Sweden; I Am Not Hans Christian Andersen
Introduction to JOKES WITHOUT PUNCHLINES
Good Morning, Russia; I Am Not Korney Ivanovich Chukovski
Approximately 660 Words of Greeting Translated into the Estonian Language, a Member of the Finno-Ugric Branch of the Uralic Language Family
Introduction to “The Human Chair”
Introduction to PATRON OF THE ARTS
Introduction to Jacques Futrelle’s THE THINKING MACHINE
The Short, Sad Miracle of Jessie Thompson
6″ x 9″ Trade Paperback, 140 pp. ISBN: 978-1-946542-05-2
Weight .75 lbs
Dimensions 6 × 9 × .5 in

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