From my Discworld mailing club newsletter:
Cool. And done!
Ok I was thinking ooo cool, but they are publishing the US covers it looks like to me. oh well never mind.
cries into a big pile of non-existent money
I’d be more interested in a facsimile first edition of The Carpet People.
After all, TCOM is essentially the same but with different cover art, wheras TCP was substantially rewritten. I’d really love to see the original.
Hrm. I have a hardcover edition of The Color of Magic with the cover that the article described, but the binding reads “St. Martin’s Press”. No gold engraved letter on the under cover either. Close, but no cigar it would seem
I don’t see information on subscribing to the entire 12-volume set on the Hill House site… Can someone point me to the appropriate page?
go to Hiil House Main Page. Click Terry Pratchett X12 off the left hand menu. Hit the button marked “Full Series now.”
Okay, found it – and I just whored myself out for the entire 12-volume set… eep!
(Or would that be “Ook!”? 
)
That’s what credit cards are for, silly person!
Ook!
Hill House is my bane. I want the $900 Neil Gaiman American Gods lettered edition (the slipcase is made from rosewood and black marble :eek: ), but, you know, it’s $900. :smack:
Still might get the $400 subscription/Neverwhere/American Gods numbered edition deal though. (I am so Hill House’s bitch.)
Yeah, I’m with you baby. But I do have a first-edition copy of Pyramids. Who wants to touch me?
crickets
I said, WHO WANTS TO TOUCH ME?
Signed British Firsts of Thief of Time, Thud!, The Fifth Elephant, Carpe Jugulam. Signed American Firsts of The Fifth Elephant and Thief of Time. First Editions from Small Gods on.
But I’ll still touch you. 
Goddamn show-off. 
Collecting books is a vice I inherited from my mother, the librarian. My students know my favorite authors, so when they see Pterry is doing a signing somewhere, they try to get a copy signed for me. He’s really only signed three of them to me personally. And all of my copies are after he became a bigger seller than Shakespeare. You have a First from back when he was a semi-nobody.
Collecting books is a vice?
looks around at the shelves of books, books in every room, a book currently sitting on the scanner, another atop the stereo, atop the turtle tank
Boy am I ever sinful. I love collecting books but I don’t have the money to buy first editions usually or anything…I ony buy hardcover for specific authors. Like Terry. And I bought the last Harry Potter in hc only because I couldn’t wait. All my others are in soft.
All my Douglas Addams is in hardcover, too.
Didn’t Pterry say something about not liking to put out special editions of any of his books?
No kidding. I enjoyed American Gods, but not that much. :eep:
I don’t think so, but I know selling them (because your new domicile doesn’t have the shelf space)is a sin. 
I don’t think these count as “special editions,” though. They’re duplicates of the originals, not new volumes with different art or additional text or whatever.
First edition is going for 16 grand?!?
All I have to say is…
“SQUEEK.”
D.
$16,000 for TCOM? Among my TP-reading friends (and that’s a not insubstantial number) it is universally held to be the worst DiscWorld novel. I would fork out that amount - always assuming that I had it, of course - for Small Gods or Lords and Ladies, but TCOM? Er… no. My wallet stays firmly shut.