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Originally Posted by mvmontgomery (Post 70103)

I pre-ordered and paid for two copies of The Man Who Collected Machen and only received one.

If you write Dan about this and give him both Paypal numbers, I am sure he will reimburse you.

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Originally Posted by mvmontgomery (Post 70103)

I pre-ordered and paid for two copies of The Man Who Collected Machen and only received one.

If you write Dan about this and give him both Paypal numbers, I am sure he will reimburse you.

I've mentioned it obliquely to him before but nothing ever panned out. Guess I have to be more up front.

His books are great. I'd gladly pay extra for DHL shipping, if I knew it would help them get here.

I just wish after waiting so long that my copy of Mauve Embellishments was at least numbered. How many copies of that book was there supposed to be?

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For close to a year now I have been encouraging any potential U.S. customers NOT to buy directly from me. Perhaps I should state this more directly and bolder. I do not decline U.S. orders, though, but that's because I have a cheap stony heart. And also because I already have quite a numerous number of American standing customers, to whom I will continue to sell my books. At this moment, however, there are not a few American customers who are still waiting to receive their books ordered months ago. They are still waiting to receive them, not waiting for me to ship them out; it is an important detail. People believing or indeed - trusting - that things will change and that overnight the shipping issues between Bucharest and U.S. will drastically change are in for disappointment. Things will not change. Things will definitely not change, allow me to repeat this. Shipping will always be a problem (unless, of course, someone is fine with paying $100 for shipping one book via DHL). Add to that the fact that now I am only able to ship by sea / ground mail to U.S. and you will get the image. Being "out" for over 1 month lately aggravated the shipping department too. Yes, for more than 1 month not one single parcel was shipped, nor within Europe nor to U.S. As I was stating on thsi very thread a few months ago, orders shipped to U.S. will take at least one month to their destination. There are happier cases too, when for some unknown to me reasons, a parcel shipped by sea is reached in U.S. in two weeks, but generally and realistically speaking, parcels to U.S. are taking between 4 and 8 weeks. The good thing in all this is that the parcels ARE delivered and they are received fine, since all of them are shipped registered. If I can not ship Priority Air Mail to U.S., at least I can register the parcel, which is all that counts for me.

People receiving unnumbered copies of a certain book should be indeed disheartened. It means the only copies available of that certain book were my last personal copies, all the other copies being sold-out in the meantime. I am sorry for the disappointment. I thought it was however better to send an unnumbered book rather than providing a refund. My mistake. Your case is a happy one, though. You know Charles well, thus I am sure he will be pleased to sign it for you personally. That's better than a numbered copy in my view.

I will not put my hand into fire vis-a-vis Virtue in Danger. What I mean is this: people have been waiting for The Master in Cafe Morphine for over two years. By the time I was saying to them the book will actually be out "next week", perhaps only 1% of them believed me anymore. And here it is The Master in Cafe Morphine. If I am going to tell you now that Virtue in Danger is "out this Autumn" will you believe me? I thought so. Tell me if you want a refund by this time. I will be happy to refund, especially since the price for Virtue in Danger will be double once the book is out, ... "this Autumn". I am a surprising golem, Maria. Don't put your trust too much in your backstage gossip and experiences. People have been seeing me folding up or ending dead, preferably with a poisoned knife in the back, for a long time now. You can not blame them; they have done their best. None of this is going to happen, despite all and everything or perhaps, indeed yes, precisely because of all and everything.

Not intending to go away, either dead or alive, until my publishing work is done. And I've only started it.

Now, is Mr. Weighell's Tarshishim box set going to be released after all?!

I have no idea :)

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[QUOTE=Nigromontanus;70110]For close to a year now I have been encouraging any potential U.S. customers NOT to buy directly from me.

Understood! But you still have Paypal buttons for pre-orders on the site. Wouldn't it be nicer to refer people to Cold Tonnage or Ziesings, both of which have better postal resources at hand?

I regret that you had to part with one of your unnumbered personal stash of Mauve Embelishments. But I pre-ordered that book as soon as it hit your site, and it seems every other person on TLO got theirs. I am even responsible for even telling Charles about Ex Occidente in the first place! (and introducing him to Mark Valentine et al)

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Thank you Dan for helping me with my refunds.

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On a different topic, I was wondering for some of you EO readers and collectors who protect their book dust jackets with a mylar cover. The EO Passport Levant titles all are in the landscape format and make for using the mylar cover a bit difficult.

Anyone find a supplier (brodart maybe?) that sells mylar covers that fit the passport levants?

If not, any suggestions?

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Please remember there is spare copy of MASTER IN THE CAFE MORPHINE (signed by Dan) up for grabs:
http://nullimmortalis.wordpress.com/...e-competition/

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Des, congratulations, you've just won a copy of the Morphine book. :)

Oh dear, I didn't enter to win anything. Sorry! I already have my Contributor's Copy.
(I just recalled a photo of MV with a very long beard many years ago - but did I dream it?)

If I happen to receive another copy of Cafe Morphine, I shall give it away in a free competition of my own. It will hopefully be more popular than the current competition I'm running for a rare 'Weirdmonger' book. :)

I have just received that copy of MASTER IN THE CAFE MORPHINE (signed by Dan). Thanks! (Dan, hope you are by now out of hospital and recovering well).

As I already have my contributor's copy of this book , I shall be running a free competition with it as the prize. Please keep an eye on my blog.
des

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Comrade T,

Brodart's jacket protectors do work, just get either the 12'' or 14'' (don't recall which). You have to lop quite a bit off the top, but the length works. All mine are covered that way. Basically just get oversize ones and trim them.

And Dan,

Well done on Cafe Morphine, it's a beautiful book.

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Thanks for the brodart advice.

On the previous topic, Dan and I have had our email discussions about U.S. shipping. At the very least they've been interesting. I continue to order driectly from ExOx due to the price difference. The wait hasn't been too horrible, besides all booksellers (U.S. and Europe) that sell ExOx books have a considerable markup which is understandable since they are in business to make a profit. Those, prices are, however, more than I'm willing to pay for a book that has just been released and isn't sold out.

My advice to Dan, is to do as he states he will do, publish.

Cheers
Jeff

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I want to thank esteemed TLO members Yellowish Haze and Clov for very generously helping me with some research for my story for "This Hermetic Legislature."

They tracked down and translated some material that was unavailable in English (reviews Witold Gombrowicz wrote of the books of the (deservedly) obscure Polish author/traitor Brochwicz, who I fictionalized as my main character.)

Cheers, friends, and thanks for your generosity and erudition!

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It took us a chest full of July nights to read and choose the authors and the stories for this heretic legislature. There is no doubt about it; this is the finest anthology I was honoured to put together so far.

For some of the authors featured in this book, these stories will be their last offerings to the necrotic body which is called the "genre scene".

The book, which comes in a "Schulzian slipcase", is out this Autumn and it is restricted to one single copy per customer.

Regards,

Dan

THIS HERMETIC LEGISLATURE: A HOMAGE TO BRUNO SCHULZ
Edited by D.P. Watt & D.T. Ghetu

‘Let’s return to the Authentic. We have never forsaken it. And here we must stress a characteristic of the script, which by now no doubt has become clear to the reader: it unfolds while being read, its boundaries open to all currents and fluctuations.’ - Bruno Schulz, The Book

At the end of a curious parallel track of imagination the Twentieth Century is frozen by the memory of early spring snows, the lascivious gaze of tradesmen, dark July nights and the chatter of exotic birds. Every face in the crowd is as still as a travelling waxwork exhibit. It is an Age of Genius writ in crumbing ledgers and announced in the margins of charlatans’ advertisements. Everywhere the agony and ecstasy of its times may be read. Upon every mouldering wall there is a rich mural of creation and beneath every glittering plastic jewel of technology hides an ancient fermentation. In each shop window, with its teetering mannequins, a universe of magical forms unfolds —a pageant of infinite life begging to be rewritten, to live again!

‘Panta Rei!’

I. In a Region of Great Heresy by Mark Samuels
II. Letters in Black Wood by Joel Lane
III. Great Ruins of Tomorrow by Stephen J. Clark
IV. The Fall of a City Planner by Karim Ghahwagi
V. The Messiah of the Mannequins by Rhys Hughes
VI. Fugue for Black Thursday by George Berguno
VII. The Original Light by Mark Valentine
VIII. With Shadow All the Marble Steps by Oliver Smith
IX. Manual of Quiet Destruction by Charles Schneider
X. Silver on Green by John Howard
XI. The Subjugation of Eros by D.P. Watt
XII. All in a Hot and Copper Sky by Dominy Clements
XIII. The Notched Sword by Adam S. Cantwell
XIV. My Ruined Father by Douglas Thompson
XV. A Calendar of Cherries by Colin Insole
XVI. The Vile Game of Gunter and Landau by Michael Cisco
XVII. A Posthumous Messiah by Reggie Oliver