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Art auction to benefit the children

Our good friend Edie Nadelhaft (one of whose paintings hangs on our dining room wall) is participating tonight in Changing the World Through Art, an auction and gala to benefit the Time In Children's Arts Initiative.

New Yorkers, please consider showing up and supporting the gala! It takes place at Haunch of Venison, 550 W. 21st St., from 6:00 to 9:00 pm. (Buy tickets here.)

Edie says:

TimeIn is a unique outreach program that introduces children from some of the most underserved and impoverished neighborhoods in NYC to the arts through activities such as hands on classes, sketching at museums and galleries and listening to opera.

Please make this the first of your 2012 tax deductible donations and enjoy hors d'oeuvres, bespoke cocktails and a live auction of works including my own Cherry Biter No. 12 as well as works by Takashi Murakami, William Wegman, Nick Cave and many more!

Posted by William Shunn on January 12, 2012 8:38 AM | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0)

But what shall we do with Number 4?

I know it's not nearly as cool as getting a carton of books from a traditional publisher, but the private printing of The Accidental Terrorist from my Magick 4 Terri auction has arrived, and I think these books turned out really darn well, if I do say so myself.

I've signed and numbered every copy, and I'm excited to get them out to the winners. In fact, I'm heading off to the post office right now to overnight them.

But this only makes a vexing question more vexing. Of the five books I ordered, I'm sending three (Nos. 1-3) to the auction winners and keeping one (No. 5) for our own bookshelf.

But what shall we do with No. 4? I've considered several different options for disposing of this volume, but none that I've quite found satisfactory. If you have any suggestions for where I should send it or what I should do with it, please let me hear them.

In the meantime, No. 4 will sit on the shelf next to No. 5, awaiting dispatch to its as-yet-undetermined proper home.

Posted by William Shunn on December 30, 2011 12:32 PM | Permalink | Comments (2) | TrackBacks (0)

Sneak peek! Auction prize book cover

I've finished designing the books that will go to the three winners of my Magick 4 Terri auction and placed my order with Lulu.com. With a little luck, the lucky recipients will have their copies of this special private edition of The Accidental Terrorist before New Year's Day. (By the way, I decided to upgrade them to hardcover with full dust jacket. Yeah.)

Here's a sneak peek of what the cover looks like. Eventual publishers of the commercial edition, please feel free to steal my design.

Posted by William Shunn on December 19, 2011 4:02 PM | Permalink | Comments (2) | TrackBacks (0)

Accidental Terrorist #61: Magick 4 Terri Auction

Epidode #61 of The Accidental Terrorist Podcast is now available, in which Bill explains how you can bid to win your very own privately printed copy of his memoir The Accidental Terrorist. Listen up! (Or simply click here to learn more and bid now.)

http://www.shunn.net/podcast?at=61

Posted by William Shunn on December 15, 2011 8:09 AM | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0)

ShunnCast #55: Magick 4 Terri Auction

Epidode #55 of "ShunnCast" is now available, in which Bill explains how you can bid to win your very own privately printed copy of his memoir The Accidental Terrorist. Listen up! (Or simply click here to learn more and bid now.)

http://www.shunn.net/podcast?id=55

Posted by William Shunn on December 14, 2011 2:01 PM | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0)

A game of cylinders

There's still an hour or so left in the bidding for my Heidelberg Cylinder auction at eBay.

Also, I've just listed a first-edition, first-printing hardcover of George R. R. Martin's A Game of Thrones.

auctions | books | science fiction

Posted by William Shunn on September 15, 2005 9:50 AM | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0)

Unexpected side effects of culling books

I've been an eBay user since 1998, but today I posted my very first ever item for sale: a signed copy of The Heidelberg Cylinder by Jonathan Carroll.

I really don't know what I'm doing, so I'm curious to see how this goes.

auctions | books | commerce | ebay | jonathan carroll

Posted by William Shunn on September 5, 2005 1:34 PM | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0)

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January 12, 2012

Art auction to benefit the children

December 30, 2011

But what shall we do with Number 4?

December 19, 2011

Sneak peek! Auction prize book cover

December 15, 2011

Accidental Terrorist #61: Magick 4 Terri Auction

December 14, 2011

ShunnCast #55: Magick 4 Terri Auction

September 15, 2005

A game of cylinders

September 5, 2005

Unexpected side effects of culling books

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