Because I'm a huge book-collecting geek:
Nov. 28th, 2008 03:54 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
missroseroseThanksgiving dinner was fantastic, but the highlight of my weekend so far?
Finding a hardback copy of The Name of the Wind at a local Borders. With the original cover (there were two) that I didn't have.
And it's a first printing.
(Background for non-book-collecting geeks: first printings are A Big Deal for collectors, and get progressively harder to find as a book gains popularity and multiple printings are issued. In addition to being one of my favorite and most frequently-bought-for-people books, The Name of the Wind is currently on its fifth or sixth printing, which means that the only way to guarantee getting a first printing is to either order one from a reseller at AbeBooks [who know that you'll pay more for it and charge you accordingly], or to luck out and find one at a local bookstore.)
Now I just have to track down Patrick Rothfuss at a convention and get him to sign them. Or I could mail them, but it would be much cooler to get it done in person...
Either way, though. Between that and my signed first printing of Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell, and a few first editions of later Gaiman works and my Subterranean Press books, I'm starting to feel like I have the beginnings of a real collection...
Finding a hardback copy of The Name of the Wind at a local Borders. With the original cover (there were two) that I didn't have.
And it's a first printing.
(Background for non-book-collecting geeks: first printings are A Big Deal for collectors, and get progressively harder to find as a book gains popularity and multiple printings are issued. In addition to being one of my favorite and most frequently-bought-for-people books, The Name of the Wind is currently on its fifth or sixth printing, which means that the only way to guarantee getting a first printing is to either order one from a reseller at AbeBooks [who know that you'll pay more for it and charge you accordingly], or to luck out and find one at a local bookstore.)
Now I just have to track down Patrick Rothfuss at a convention and get him to sign them. Or I could mail them, but it would be much cooler to get it done in person...
Either way, though. Between that and my signed first printing of Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell, and a few first editions of later Gaiman works and my Subterranean Press books, I'm starting to feel like I have the beginnings of a real collection...
