So let's talk about collecting Hobb/Lindholm books a little. What are your personal "requirements"? Do you only collect hardbacks, or first editions, or US editions only? Or just about anything that you come across?
I have a very mixed lot in my bookshelf. All my Lindholm stories are paperbacks, and most of them are UK and/or reprint editions - a couple are second hand copies purchased from ebay because they're out of print. My copy of the Gypsy is a mass market paperback, and I don't like how it's in different size than the rest of them... but it was difficult enough to get a new copy of it, so I shouldn't complain.
When I first started buying the Elderling trilogies, the most recent book was (I think) Fool's Errand or the Golden Fool. So what was available in bookstores here were paperbacks up to those new ones. I chose to collect the UK paperbacks, mainly because I'm a huge John Howe fan and I didn't like the US covers for the LST trilogy. The first hardback I bought was Fool's Fate, and I've since then tried to slowly rebuilt my collection to hardbacks so they might survive the continuous re-reading better. (I need to find a better paying job to ever get a chance to purchase the UK hardback of AA, though!
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I'll try to take a photo of my humble collection soon and post it here.
What have you got?
I have a very mixed lot in my bookshelf. All my Lindholm stories are paperbacks, and most of them are UK and/or reprint editions - a couple are second hand copies purchased from ebay because they're out of print. My copy of the Gypsy is a mass market paperback, and I don't like how it's in different size than the rest of them... but it was difficult enough to get a new copy of it, so I shouldn't complain.
When I first started buying the Elderling trilogies, the most recent book was (I think) Fool's Errand or the Golden Fool. So what was available in bookstores here were paperbacks up to those new ones. I chose to collect the UK paperbacks, mainly because I'm a huge John Howe fan and I didn't like the US covers for the LST trilogy. The first hardback I bought was Fool's Fate, and I've since then tried to slowly rebuilt my collection to hardbacks so they might survive the continuous re-reading better. (I need to find a better paying job to ever get a chance to purchase the UK hardback of AA, though!
)I'll try to take a photo of my humble collection soon and post it here.
What have you got?
"Green nubs on the dry sticks of the clematis promised that the appearance of death was not death itself." - Ship of Destiny
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