Beau & Paul, I know that the Collection is separate from this site and now closed. The Short Story Collections Vols 1-7 are showing up on E-Bay (usually in mint condition) at significantly higher prices than other leatherette books. 1. Were these significantly low print runs due to lowering collection subscriptions? and 2. Have Random House dumped the residual stock of these on the second hand market? e.g Vol ^ is currently listed at $US180 :-( Les The English Language is weird. It can be understood through tough thorough thought though.
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.
>Beau & Paul, I know that the Collection is separate from >this site and now closed. >The Short Story Collections Vols 1-7 are showing up on E-Bay >(usually in mint condition) at significantly higher prices >than other leatherette books. >1. Were these significantly low print runs due to lowering >collection subscriptions? and >2. Have Random House dumped the residual stock of these on the >second hand market? e.g Vol ^ is currently listed at $US180
The collection was cancelled because of waning interest ... of course we sold it for 30+ years when it was supposed to last for 7! The reason the books could be sold for reasonable prices was that they only printed as many as there were subscription holders ... thus later books with fewer subscribers means fewer (rarer) books. That is also why there is no "residual stock" ... the collection worked financially because we never over printed. Just wait. The price will come down and try checking several sources.
