Here’s the books you can buy

A Folger edition of Shakespeare’s play. Folger editions are edited and printed with a general readership in mind, including helpful notes and scene summaries.

This purchase contains a four-page zine-style essay from Michael about King Lear, which will ultimately be collected in Michael’s Untitled Shakespeare Essay Collection Book (Forthcoming) and offered for general purchase once he has written an essay on all 38 plays—but you will have the only original, standalone physical printing of this one up to and beyond such time as that volume is released. Your essay is handmade, signed, and numbered.

A Folger edition of Shakespeare’s play. Folger editions are edited and printed with a general readership in mind, including helpful notes and scene summaries.

This purchase contains a four-page zine-style essay from Michael about Macbeth, which will ultimately be collected in Michael’s Untitled Shakespeare Essay Collection Book (Forthcoming) and offered for general purchase once he has written an essay on all 38 plays—but you will have the only original, standalone physical printing of this one up to and beyond such time as that volume is released. Your essay is handmade, signed, and numbered.

Ace Science Fiction paperback printing of William Gibson’s classic short story collection, with its iconic original cover art. Shows light signs of use but in otherwise in excellent condition.

This purchase contains a four-page zine-style essay from Michael about William Gibson. It will never be reproduced digitally, and it is only available by buying copies of Gibson books on this website. It is handmade, signed, and numbered.

Rare original copy of the first authorized American printing of the fantasy classic. Shows signs of use, wear, and tear, including several marks of previous owners.

This purchase contains a four-page zine-style essay from Michael about Tolkien. It will never be reproduced digitally, and is only available when purchasing works about Tolkien from this website. It is handmade, signed, and numbered.

Gahan Wilson is known mostly for illustrations, but he also wrote some short stories that are pretty weird. CMRN is not sure if they are “good,” but he was interested in this collection all the way through. Book is a little beat up and has some curling on the cover.

A decent copy of one of the great Clive Barker works. 

CMRN accidentally ended up with a second copy of this somehow. Now it can be yours. Good condition.

CMRN bought this to read while he was working on his book about Assassin’s Creed. He ended up reading a digital copy instead. Good condition.

This is the copy of The Regulators that CMRN read for the show, and it contains a number of page fold downs to mark the things he wanted to talk about on the show. He’s still mad about this book.

This comes with an essay that CMRN wrote about the Bachman books and Richard Bachman as a figure. This is a four-page, zine-style publication that is handmade, signed, and numbered. The only way to get this essay is by buying a Richard Bachman book from CMRN on this website.

This is the copy of Thinner that CMRN read for the show, and it contains a number of page fold downs to mark the things he wanted to talk about on the show. 

This comes with an essay that CMRN wrote about the Bachman books and Richard Bachman as a figure. This is a four-page, zine-style publication that is handmade, signed, and numbered. The only way to get this essay is by buying a Richard Bachman book from CMRN on this website.

CMRN didn’t care for this one, but maybe you will. Slight warp on the spine due to being at the bottom of a stack of books. 

This is a truly awesome kids or young readers book about dragons. There’s some fun counterfactual history stuff in here, but mostly it’s about looking at different pictures of dragons, be they historical or newly imagined. CMRN thinks that if he read this as a kid it would have fixed him. Good condition with jacket.

Famed genre author Marge Piercy writes a novel of entwined women, sort of playing with several genres. CMRN bought this with the intention to read it, but the willpower did not emerge. Good condition.

These things are always so hit and miss that it is impossible to say if any of them are good. This one has a GRRM story in it, so if you care about that kind of thing it’s great. Mostly exists as a time capsule of an editor’s taste. No jacket, decent condition.

This is a collection of Twilght Zoney stories for young readers collected in hardcover. This thing is in really good condition for its age, and CMRN is a little pained as he is sitting here writing this because he DOES NOT want to get rid of it, but also he is 200% positive he will never actually sit down and read the whole thing so it needs to be in someone’s home who will enjoy it.

This is the sleeper hit in the Genre Collectorz series — both of these books are stone cold bangers if you’re CMRN and you are also 11 years old, the age that he was when he read both of these books for the first time. What if an author went to Dante’s hell and saw all the new people they put there? What if the tripods came and took over everyone’s minds? Both books in good condition.

CMRN bought both of these books on the strength of their covers alone, and he needs them out his house now. He did not even attempt to read them. That one book is pretty old! Good condition.

You can probably get a copy of this anywhere on earth for this price or cheaper, but you can also ask yourself: would it be this copy? CMRN got a slight upgrade in terms of aesthetics so you can buy this slightly busted one. Good condition.

A great book. CMRN somehow ended up with two copies of this. Excellent condition with jacket.

The great big book. CMRN has tried to read this a few times, but he has never succeeded, and now it’s your turn. This is a second printing of the hardcover in great condition, although the jacket is torn and someone has repaired it with tape.

CMRN ended up with two copies of this somehow. Like new condition.

It’s what it says on the label. CMRN thought he would be more interested in this than he ended up being. Good condition.

That devious villain Christopher Tolkien released this a few years ago, and CMRN has the big collected set of these deep posthumous releases and has no need for this, which he picked up in a used book store for some number of money less than he is selling it to you today. The slip case is a little dinged up on the edge, but he’s pretty sure he’s the first person to ever actually pull it out of the case. Unread on the inside, map included. No bookplate.

The classic science fiction novel by one of the greats. CMRN has somehow ended up with several copies of this in hardcover. This one has the jacket, but it’s a little ripped up on the spine. Good condition otherwise with some slight foxing.

CMRN is continually buying and getting rid of this book. This time he just wanted to read Waiting for Godot again. Mission accomplished. Slight spine crease.

This is a really clean early paperback copy of James Baldwin’s Giovanni’s Room. CMRN felt back listing it for the full collector’s cost so you get a free, cool copy of that Hemingway book as well. Good condition.

This is just an awesome two-volume Sherlock Holmes hardcover set that CMRN saw in a thrift store and it was too cool to pass up. For a moment he thought it would be his archival Holmes set, but he decided he wanted to maintain his single volume rather than the double. It is your gain. No jacket, but volumes are in pretty good condition.

Blish’s The Star Dwellers is a truly fun book written by a master of the genre, and CMRN is selling this one because he has another copy. Adams’s Shardik is a book he tried to read and gave up almost immediately, and yes, he did that because of that big bear in The Dark Tower. Ok condition, both books are a little beat up.

CMRN has an unbelievable number of random science fiction paperbacks, some of which are good, and some of which are not. This is a combo of notorious influential problematic guy H. Rider Haggard and a guy he knows nothing about Irving A. Greenfield. He read the first 25 pages of both of these books, and he did not continue, but maybe you will love them! Good condition.

A solid, recent edition of V For Vendetta in softcover. This is the exact copy that CMRN read for those episodes of Shelved By Genre. Own a piece of history today! Good condition.

A fun, surreal comic. CMRN has a good time. Good condition.