The Gently Mad Blog is Moving

I have moved all my posts and extraneous items on this blog to my own server. The new address: A Gently Mad Blog
I will still be blogging about books, collecting, and everything that is intertwined with being a crazy book person.
So please change your bookmarks (yeah like MY blog is [...]

Rhymes of a Red Cross Man- Featured Book

There are many stories out in the book collecting world that tell of a collector going into a used book store and coming out with a very rare very valuable book for only a few dollars.
It happens. More infrequently now, but it does happen. (more…)

A Gently Mad Blog New Feature

I will be adding a new little feature here.
I will take specific books from my collection, photograph them, and write up an entry on them.
The entry may be about how I came about the selected work, or why the work is important to me, my collection, or the overall bibliophile world. Probably all three [...]

A Gently Mad Blog Recommendations

I finished Blindsight by PETER WATTS the other night and I was blown away. This guy can write.
I have picked through Parasite Rex : Inside the Bizarre World of Nature’s Most Dangerous Creatures at the bookstore and I finally purchased a copy. This book was referenced by SCOTT WESTERFELD as a inspiration [...]

A Treatise on Editions, Printings, States, And Variants

A recent announcement from a small press in the horror genre has brought upon a great debate about how publishers should handle their business with regard to limited editions. I will discuss the idea of limited editions and small presses in a later entry and I will not editorialize about this publisher and his [...]