Piers Anthony Collection

     Huge Piers fan for a long time, when calling 1-800-hipiers was a cool way of getting free newsletters and discounted books.

     Piers Anthony was the first author that I took pains to collect every book they had wrote. When I finished that, I went after editions, but realized there were many talented writers in the world.. and yes, I will say it, some even better than the legend himself. I posted these pictures to the Piers Anthony Facebook page when he asked for everyone to post their collections. I looked at hundreds of pictures before I decided to post my own. I saw colections of twenty, thirty and even as few as five books. Some of the pictures were taken with their proud owner arranged on a bed. Not to be outdone, it so happened I owned all his books. In the comment of the picture I wrote, "Here is my collection of all 244 of Piers' books, not counting cover variations and printing differences." Needless to say, the pictures above garnered some attention, and had to post another picture with a hand written note with my name and the date. Some people contacted me and wished to buy the collection for as little as $100.

Worth noting: I have every Anthony book in Hard Cover and Paper Back. At one point I went after cover variations, box sets, and signed editions, and all first editions.. and got pretty far in to it before I called it quits. All together its over 500 books. I have over 20 personal letters from Piers himself, all the 1-800-hipiers catalogs, the PC game and the board game, all the calendars and posters I could find. Oddities? I have a few. Signed Encyclopedia of Xanth series by Nye, signed by both Anthony and Nye. Signed first edition of Pornucopia, brand new.. the list goes on. I should clarify I live in Florida, very close to where Piers lives, and was able to attend several conventions in the early 90's when he was doing such a thing, which allowed me to get a lot of items signed, and buy certain things only available at conventions.

One comment in particular was my favorite.
Random Person: "How long have you been collecting piers books?"
Me: "I stopped 8 years ago."
Random Person: "Geez. What do you collect now?"
Me: "I dunno.. everything."

EDIT: This Piers Anthony ego trip of a post did not age that well. At one point I did have them all, but he kept writing and my interest waned. I still have all the books in storage and have added a few singed copies to the bunch, but I'm not nearly attached to them like I use to be. I wonder why I thought it was something I needed to do, to flex on the facebook Xanth community? I'm glad I've grown up some since then. All collections are beautiful and meaningful in their own right, especially the small ones.