Thiessen, J Grant
Entry updated 12 September 2022. Tagged: Author.
(1947- ) Canadian book dealer and bibliographer, editor of The Science-Fiction Collector, whose individual issues he later assembled as The Science Fiction Collector, Volume 1 (anth 1980), containing issues 1-6, The Science Fiction Collector, Volume 2 (anth 1981), containing issues 7-10 and The Science Fiction Collector, Volume 3 (anth 1981), containing issues 11-14. The three volumes have proved a valuable resource for sf Bibliography ever since. Using his bookshop, Pandora's Books, as a publisher, he was also responsible for Richard Bilyeu's The Tanelorn Archives: A Primary and Secondary Bibliography of the Works of Michael Moorcock 1949-1979 (1981). [JC]
James Grant Thiessen
born Winnipeg, Manitoba: 1947
works
- The Science Fiction Collector, Volume 1 (Altona, Manitoba: James Grant Books/Pandora's Books, 1980) [nonfiction: bibliography: assembling issues 1-6 of the magazine: hb/nonpictorial]
- The Science Fiction Collector, Volume 2 (Altona, Manitoba: Pandora's Books, 1981) [nonfiction: bibliography: assembling issues 7-10 of the magazine: hb/nonpictorial]
- The Science Fiction Collector, Volume 3 (Altona, Manitoba: Pandora's Books, 1981) [nonfiction: bibliography: assembling issues 11-14 of the magazine: hb/nonpictorial]
works as publisher
- Richard Bilyeu. The Tanelorn Archives: A Primary and Secondary Bibliography of the Works of Michael Moorcock 1949-1979 (Manitoba: Pandora's Books, 1981) [nonfiction: bibliography: Michael Moorcock: hb/Steve Leialoha]
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