Autograph Hound Saturday once again and Brian Leno sends in a few siggies from a recent purchase. Nothing too exciting, meat & potatoes stuff. He already had several of these banked in his files. One nice angle is that Will Jenkins also signs as his most famous penname Murray Leinster, and puts quote marks on the pseudonym.
Just recently Brian showed off an L. Sprague de Camp autograph in connection with landing a much bigger fish, a signed original snapshot of Robert E. Howard’s father. That find impressed even Brian.
DisCon was the 21st World Science Fiction Convention, Washington, D. C. — August 31-September 2 1963.
Here’s Brian:
This is a pretty cool little program book from 1963. Interesting stuff. At one o’clock on Sunday there’s a muster of the Hyborian Legion with “de Camp and his cohorts on Conan.”
But the coolest thing is the Autograph page. I already had most but I saw no reason not to have two H. Beam Piper — a suicide like REH — signatures in my library.
Asimov, de Camp and Leiber were already in my collection.
Randall Garrett is a new one for me. I think he’s a bit tough to get as his life evidently took a dive into shit as his health got bad.
And Gordon R. Dickson might be a new addition. Not sure.
The program book is in tough shape. Pages are loose as the staples have disappeared.
Still, all this fun for a couple of Franklins. Lots of cool ads. A bargain.
