Book of Gold fanzine

Matthew, do you (or anyone else for that matter) know how many issues of 'The Book of Gold' were produced? I received a copy of #2 but never heard of any more after that. I'm especially interested in chasing down more obscure secondary bibliography on Wolfe as I have been keeping a file of such items for quite a while. There were also some articles in Vector that I came across while living in the UK in the early 80's but I'm sure there have probably been others since then. Does anyone know an easy way (relatively) to get access to such information? (That question must sound odd coming from a librarian!) I have ambitions of (someday when I get the time) producing an annotated bibliography of secondary works on Wolfe (of which I wish there were more). Ron Crown Saint Louis University crownrw at slu.edu

Reply: Item #7958559 from WHORL at LISTS.BEST.COM@INET01# (Note to Ranjit: the original message quoted by Ron Crown and Charles Dye [raster] never arrived in my mailbox [to best of my knowledge] nor does it appear in the archives. Just to let you know!) Ron Crown, Is your question about secondary works related to a desire for an index of them or of obtaining the artifacts themselves? Both, obviously--but I mean, "Urth-Man Extraordinary" has a very good index. You mentioned "Vector" and "early 80s"--I see listings for Vector #118 (2-84) and #119 (4-84), as well as Vector #65 (5/6-73!). As to securing possession of these fabled items, I have no specific insights. To the best of my knowledge, aided by "Urth-Man Extraordinary," Jeremy Crampton only produced two issues of "The Book of Gold." I, too, have only a copy of number 2. Jeremy is online, I believe . . . (jcrampton at mason1.gmu.edu) if you want to ask him about it. Who knows--he might even agree to upload the text(s). =mantis=