David Poyer -- First Editions, Collector's Items, and Gifts

I have a few copies of the backlist hardcovers in the attic (literally) and from time to time pull a few out, when bibliophiles and hardcore fans want them, or someone needs a one-of-a-kind special gift for Dad or a valued friend.

Now, I don't have everything.  There are no more first edition (hardcover) PHILOs, and no WHITE CONTINENTs, DEAD OF WINTERs, or STAR SEEDS --  sorry; wish I had them but I don't.  However, I have lucked into a few more copies of STEPFATHER BANK, THE SHILOH PROJECT, and THE ONLY THING TO FEAR, though they won't last long.  I have only a few HATTERAS BLUEs left.   THE CIRCLE, first instalment in Dan Lenson's career, is getting scarce, as are LOUISIANA BLUE and even FIRE ON THE WATERS, recent as that was.  Don't wait forever on the ones below!

It's hard to set prices but here goes, based, more than anything else, on how many I have left in the attic:

THE CIRCLE -- hardcover, first edition, autographed on title page -- $49.00
THE SHILOH PROJECT - mass market paper first edition, autographed - THREE AVAILABLE - $39
THE GULF -- hardcover, first edition, autographed on title page -- $30.00
THE ONLY THING TO FEAR -- hardcover, first edition, autographed -- $45.00
WINTER IN THE HEART -- HC, 1st, autographed -- $29.00
THE MED -- HC, 1st, autographed, ONE LEFT -- $185.00
STEPFATHER BANK -- HC, 1st, auto'd -- TWO LEFT - $135.00
HATTERAS BLUE -- HC, 1st, auto'd -- 3 LEFT - $85.00
BAHAMAS BLUE -- HC, 1st US, auto'd -- $29.00
BAHAMAS BLUE -- HC, UK, auto'd -- $24.00
LOUISIANA BLUE -- HC, 1st, auto'd -- TWO LEFT - $89.00
THE PASSAGE -- HC, 1st, autographed -- $29.00
TOMAHAWK -- HC, 1st, autographed -- $29.00
DOWN TO A SUNLESS SEA -- HC, 1st, autographed -- $32.00
CHINA SEA - HC, 1st, autographed - $25.00
THUNDER ON THE MOUNTAIN - HC, 1st, auto'd - $35.00
BLACK STORM - HC, 1st, auto'd - TWO LEFT -- $49.00
FIRE ON THE WATERS - HC, 1st, auto'd - ONLY FOUR LEFT - 59.00
A COUNTRY OF OUR OWN - HC, 1st, auto'd - $35.00
THE COMMAND - HC, 1st, auto'd - $30.00
THAT ANVIL OF OUR SOULS - HC, 1st, auto'd - $29.00
THE RETURN OF PHILO T. MCGIFFIN - trade paper USNI edition, auto'd - $20.00
THE THREAT - HC, 1st, auto'd -- $25.00
KOREA STRAIT - HC, 1st, auto'd - $25.00

To order send a personal check or money order plus $6.00 shipping for one book and 1.50 for each additional book (same prices for books to Canada, but shipping $7 per book plus 1.50 each additional volume; overseas, shipping negotiable - drop me a line.  FPO/APO addresses, shipping same as US.) in US$ to: David Poyer, Box 647, Nassawadox VA 23413-0647.  There's no tax for internet sales.  Let me know if you want the books inscribed as a gift -- to a son, daughter, parent, husband, friend.  Otherwise I'll simply do a collector's signature on the title page.

If you're interested in bound galleys I have a few.  Write and we'll discuss it.

Thanks again for your interest in my work.  I'm still at the desk every day trying to do the perfect novel!

                            The "Poyer Corps"

It has only gradually dawned on me that I have a loyal following out there, what one man at a recent reading called a "Poyer Corps," who look for my earlier books and even collect them.  In fact there are a few who tell me that after years of alert bookshop-cruising they own and have even read ALL my books.  Occasionally they write to me, and it's great hearing what they liked and what they didn't, or what ships, people, or situations they recognized from their own lives.

If this is so, they deserve some sort of recognition!  Since the earlier books are getting hard to find, and even some recent issues are scarce on the ground.  After all, I acknowledge my sources in the front of each book.  Why not recognize my most fervent supporters, in some way?

Unfortunately I have not been keeping close track up to now ( too busy doing that book a year), but here to the best of my knowledge is where we stand.  Please write me, or email <david@poyer.com> and update me on your status.  If you don't want your name on the Collector's List, I'll take it off right away.  Remember, we're talking hardcovers here, unless (like WHITE CONTINENT and STAR SEED) the original edition was in paper.  Foreign-language editions and bound galleys count as above and beyond the call of duty.

Honor system, please!

GOLD MEDAL -- 100%, copies of all books, all autographed

David Goldstein of Gresham, OR
Arlie Campbell of  Springfield, VA
Art Shaw of Lawrenceville, GA
David Parker of Suffolk, VA -- just promoted, our newest Goldster!  Congratulations, especially on finding WHITE CONTINENT!

SILVER MEDAL - 90% of  all books, half of them autographed

Ed Livingston Jr. of Pinellas Park, FL
Jim Olson of Deep River, CT
Rich Harley of Saratoga, CA
Bob Marble of Port Charlotte, FL

BRONZE MEDAL - 80% of all books, some autographed.

Robert Gooyer of San Mateo, CA
Jim Halling of Atlanta, GA
William D. Hartley of Hong Kong, China
Eugene Maresca of Indianapolis, IN
Jim Hiney of Middleburg, VA
Tom Crouch of Blairstown, NJ
Stephan Dabrowski of Palo Alto, CA
Tom Weidner of Chesapeake, VA
Jake George of Melbourne, FL
R. Mark Wilson of Clancy, MT
Don Ellwood of Pendleton, IN
Michael Ham of Monterey, CA
David Meadows of Washington, DC
Todd Croak-Falen of Portland, OR
Dean Alderman of Boise, ID
Steve Biedermann of Madison, WI
Kurt Jensen of Nashua, NH
Aya Okuda of Wahiawa, HI - our newest member!

Obviously this is to some extent a blatant attempt to promote my backlist. But I also want to acknowledge that I owe you all so much -- forty years of the best career in the world!

So: until I regret I promised this and take it off the site, I will autograph my older books no matter where you find or buy them: secondhand bookshop, ALibris, library sale, etc.  Just send them to me with a postage-paid return box or padded envelope and I'll give it a collector's signature and put it back in the mail.  (No dealers please -- this is for individual readers and collectors only.) Happy hunting!

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