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Just received my copy of the leatherbound edition of "The Eye of the World". volume 1 of The Wheel of Time, from Dragonsteel Books. Ordered back in February and it arrived a few days ago :) Here are some photos:

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I did an more in depth look video for anyone interested:
 
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I didn’t know Dragonsteel was doing those, but I’ve also never ready WoT. Have a few if the Sanderson releases but somehow lost track of the Way of Kings and need to just find a set on eBay or something.
 
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The Three-Body Problem Trilogy (Limited Edition) went on sale 20 minutes ago on The Folio Society website.

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Just got this in the mail from Obsidian Codex Press, "Fungi From Yuggoth" by HP Lovecraft. Letterpress printed "pamphlet" from Kickstarter. Pretty cool.

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Copy of The Three-Body Problem Trilogy Limited Edition arrived yesterday :) Quite nice... pretty much an omnibus, lol.

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I’ve looked at so many different versions of that from this, Broken Binding, SubPress, someone else or at least one more and I just can’t do it. Waffle back and forth but just didn’t like all 3 enough to have it in my shelf. Good looking version though.
 
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I’ve looked at so many different versions of that from this, Broken Binding, SubPress, someone else or at least one more and I just can’t do it. Waffle back and forth but just didn’t like all 3 enough to have it in my shelf. Good looking version though.
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Yeah.. It's kind of an acquired taste, haha. Also, I think the Broken Binding LE version is overpriced, but still quite nice. I'm guessing they will release a 3 volume standard edition before to long that would be more reasonable.
 
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Folio Society dropped The Three-Body Problem Trilogy standard edition in their winter collection at a much more reasonable $235 price, The Three-Body Problem Trilogy | The Folio Society Fiction.. Not a 3 book set as was anticipated.

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I’ve been too far behind to keep up with stuff and almost nothing has interested me.

Conversation Tree Press is finally shipping numbered 20,000 Leagues Under the Seas. Hopefully get mine next week, UK already getting theirs. Pictures on FB look amazing in both color options, I selected Teal.

Perfect Player Press released their 1st (probably) real edition in 2 states, regular and deluxe of Blood Music by Greg Bear. I had early access because of ordering Most Dangerous Game that he released first. Went in for the Deluxe even though I know nothing about the story, but Jake who owns the business has been a really good friend of the community and all my interactions with him have been positive. It’s also apparently been a huge dream of his to have a small fine press, so I really wanted to help support that.

I think Curious King / Lit Escalates are getting close to shipping standard Red Rising? Saw a lot of chatter about it. Mine is Numbered so likely not until next year for me to receive it.

Everyone is expecting Suntup to release Sleepy Hollow at the end of the month. That’ll be a shit show trying to get a copy at first. Suntup is really just releasing like 5 McCarthy books in a row or something. Fine, I guess, saves me money. Nothing wrong with McCarthy but I’ll just wait until they’re all out and buy a set or something. It’ll be years before that matters.
 
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Oh, Conversation Tree Press announced Dragonlance Chronicles today. That's kind of interesting and seems like a big deal. They're definitely increasing the printing for this one with 1,000 unnumbered copies and 300 deluxe. That's about double if not a bit more of each. Lettered is still only 26.

Not a lot of information. Ordering will be sometime in 2027 which means probably not shipping until 2028. No artwork included in the announcement or design. Definitely a lot more to come there.
 
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Oh, Conversation Tree Press announced Dragonlance Chronicles today. That's kind of interesting and seems like a big deal. They're definitely increasing the printing for this one with 1,000 unnumbered copies and 300 deluxe. That's about double if not a bit more of each. Lettered is still only 26.

Not a lot of information. Ordering will be sometime in 2027 which means probably not shipping until 2028. No artwork included in the announcement or design. Definitely a lot more to come there.
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Ooo.. their stuff looks super nice! I may be tempted for this one as well, lol.

I did just order a few limited/deluxe books from Easton Press... should be here in a week or so, hopefully.
 
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Curious King is launching a side project subscription service called Eldritch King that focuses on Horror.

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This is presumably going to be like The Broken Binding where you pay a subscription fee and receive a book each other month. So far I believe they’ve only specified it would be bi-monthly unlike TBB which is every month.

They’ve also hinted at some of the book specifications:
-Cloth or leather covers
-Smyth sewn binding
-Exclusive art
-Thick paper
-Printed edges
-Ribbon markers

More to come. No title announcement yet.

Kind of town on this. Really don’t like TBB quality. It’s a UK publisher so shipping will almost double the cost probably. Usually a lot of books you’ve never heard of and have to manage skipping months. We’ll see how the rest of the announcement goes and what’s to come.
 
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Curious King is launching a side project subscription service called Eldritch King that focuses on Horror.

eldritchking.com

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This is presumably going to be like The Broken Binding where you pay a subscription fee and receive a book each other month. So far I believe they’ve only specified it would be bi-monthly unlike TBB which is every month.

They’ve also hinted at some of the book specifications:
-Cloth or leather covers
-Smyth sewn binding
-Exclusive art
-Thick paper
-Printed edges
-Ribbon markers

More to come. No title announcement yet.

Kind of town on this. Really don’t like TBB quality. It’s a UK publisher so shipping will almost double the cost probably. Usually a lot of books you’ve never heard of and have to manage skipping months. We’ll see how the rest of the announcement goes and what’s to come.
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Looked good.. I signed up and got in at the founders level. Joined exactly at 1400 my time.
 
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Curious King is launching a side project subscription service called Eldritch King that focuses on Horror.

eldritchking.com

eldritchking

eldritchking
eldritchking.com eldritchking.com

This is presumably going to be like The Broken Binding where you pay a subscription fee and receive a book each other month. So far I believe they’ve only specified it would be bi-monthly unlike TBB which is every month.

They’ve also hinted at some of the book specifications:
-Cloth or leather covers
-Smyth sewn binding
-Exclusive art
-Thick paper
-Printed edges
-Ribbon markers

More to come. No title announcement yet.

Kind of town on this. Really don’t like TBB quality. It’s a UK publisher so shipping will almost double the cost probably. Usually a lot of books you’ve never heard of and have to manage skipping months. We’ll see how the rest of the announcement goes and what’s to come.
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Price for the Soul Pack/Founders Pack is £40.00 + £14.54 for a total of £54.54 which is around $73. Expensive, but not horribly so for what looks to be pretty high quality books + signed (if you get in the first 1500 founders slot). Blood Pack is £10 cheaper and foil-stamped clothbound.

First 3 books announced are:

* World War Z - ETA March 2027
* Let the Right One In
* Heart-Shaped Box
 
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Price for the Soul Pack/Founders Pack is £40.00 + £14.54 for a total of £54.54 which is around $73. Expensive, but not horribly so for what looks to be pretty high quality books + signed (if you get in the first 1500 founders slot). Blood Pack is £10 cheaper and foil-stamped clothbound.

First 3 books announced are:

* World War Z - ETA March 2027
* Let the Right One In
* Heart-Shaped Box
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Yeah, I got Founders as well. I'm fine supporting CK with this project as long as it stays quality and doesn't dip to Broken Binding levels of shittery. Plus, I do like all 3 announced titles. Let the Right One In has a fine press treatment by Suntup but I didn't love it enough to drop hundreds of dollars.

There was a good link discussing the Wintan bonded leather being used by EK and it seemed pretty "nice" compared to some of the other negatives around bonded leather. I mean, it isn't a $1,000+ leather but I really doubt CK would put out trash and hurt their name. We'll see.
 
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Yeah, I got Founders as well. I'm fine supporting CK with this project as long as it stays quality and doesn't dip to Broken Binding levels of shittery. Plus, I do like all 3 announced titles. Let the Right One In has a fine press treatment by Suntup but I didn't love it enough to drop hundreds of dollars.

There was a good link discussing the Wintan bonded leather being used by EK and it seemed pretty "nice" compared to some of the other negatives around bonded leather. I mean, it isn't a $1,000+ leather but I really doubt CK would put out trash and hurt their name. We'll see.
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Yeah, seemed quite nice and reasonably priced. No additional illustrations added within the books sadly. Seems similar to an Easton Press book.

Broken Binding seems to swing pretty wildly I've found... some of their books/series are quite nice, some are pretty much trade hardbacks from Target quality with a dab of lipstick.

I did just receive 2 new books from Easton Press today, haven't opened them yet, but 1 is the deluxe edition of Foundation they just released. Was curious to see how it stacks up the Folio Society 3 volume set (standard edition).

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Also, finally, after a year, received the last book from the Heavy Metal Library Unlocks Kickstarter campign "The Covers that Led Us Here"... quite nice, though they cheapened out on packaging and my book has corner damage which is... annoying. The other 3 books I received back in June were very well packaged with branded packaging and interior protection.

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