While most of the other titles went through numerous printings, The Collected Short Stories" titles did not to the best of my knowledge as they were very late in the game, hence the scarcity.

Just MHO- I don't think they are particularly desirable since they were NOT featuring the uniform book layout of the series (instead being the trade hardcovers simply bound in the faux leather), as well the then fulfillment printer/publisher was also unable to match the spine titling that was originally used for most of the run so all those books just don't match. Just cheeped out I would say.

I looked at this and realized that the original typeface / font was never digitized so that was probably the reason. Crappy none the less.