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RE: Dartmoor leather

Collins — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 10:23:14 GMT

Hi David, yes we keep them available to buy until the full 100 have sold out - there are still a few remaining despite a big surge of pre-orders.

Alex
Collins

RE: Dartmoor leather

David Hutchinson — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 18:09:06 GMT

Hi Alex, I see there are still copies available from the 100 limited edition. Are these leatherbounds not popular at all now or do you just have a few left?

RE: Dartmoor leather

MartinHolt — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 11:41:18 GMT

Thanks to all forum members who pointed out that you can pre-order by phone, as I live on the Moor I was desperate to get hold of leatherbound and signed copies ( which I have done today), especially as leatherbound has now been reduced to 100. This will probably not sell out for some time but I would have kicked myself if I had missed the boat. Mind you bank manager won't be best pleased and wife will kick me anyway if I dont hide them properly.

Also thanks to Collins /Alex for great customer service. Good stuff.

RE: Dartmoor leather

Bill — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 12:51:13 GMT

... and I pre-ordered my signed hardback copy of Dartmoor this morning.

I'm not sure that there will be any difficulty in obtaining signed copies for those that want one, as most recent titles are still available on this site (with the exception of Wildfowl), but it does appear odd to me that you cannot order on the website until 8th, but it's available by phone some days earlier.

Bill

RE: Dartmoor leather

David Hutchinson — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 10:11:13 GMT

I also pre-ordered my signed and leatherbound copies yesterday with my payment being taken.

RE: Dartmoor leather

Collins — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 16:26:26 GMT

Hi Micky

That's great the customer service team are already taking pre-orders. Online pre-ordering is available from 8th Sept.

Best
Alex

RE: Dartmoor leather

michael5 — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 14:01:19 GMT

Alex..I was a little confused here first thing this morning as i previously understood that the signed standard and leathers of Dartmoor could be ordered today on this site, so after seeing none offered by the shop I phoned your service team, asked if it was possible to pre order a signed "Dartmoor" today ..and my order was taken and paid for by card over the phone. i asked if i was now guaranteed my signed copy and was told yes

micky

RE: Dartmoor leather

Collins — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 11:48:30 GMT

Pre-order will be available from next Tuesday 8th Sept.

Alex

RE: Dartmoor leather

David Hutchinson — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 18:38:38 GMT

Thanks for the date Alex. Does this mean we need to wait until 8 Oct to order these or is it possible to pre-order from tomorrow?

RE: Dartmoor leather

Collins — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 09:47:49 GMT

What's happened is that the special editions (leatherbound and signed hardback) have been mistakenly given the same publication date as the standard hardback edition of Dartmoor. The system has then run a check on the stock and when finding none available made the assumption that it has sold out.

However because Ian Mercer is coming into HarperCollins later this month to sign the hardbacks and because the leather bound editions take longer to finish by hand, the actual publication date for the leatherbound and signed editions of Dartmoor is 8th October.

I have requested a change on the system to reflect this date. Apologies for the confusion this has caused!

Alex
Collins

RE: Dartmoor leather

wtga — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 17:59:15 GMT

I seem to remember this happened with previous Leather editions - they were marked as Sold Out before they'd even been offered for sale.
Another NN 'idiosyncrasy' no doubt.

Please, Alex, can we have a definite date on which these editions will be offered for sale?

Thanks

RE: Dartmoor leather

David Hutchinson — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 13:17:11 GMT

Hi Alex, according to the web site, signed editions of Dartmoor are 'Sold out' but not available until 3 Sep. Leatherbound editions are also 'Sold out'.

Hopefully this is not the case so could you please advise when signed copies & leatherbound copies will be available to order.

Thanks

RE: Dartmoor leather

Collins — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 16:44:18 GMT

The latest date I have from the binder for Dartmoor leatherbound editions is 1st October - they tend to lag behind the standard book publication date because of the extra work that goes into them once the book blocks are available. But we will be enabling pre-order on this website in the next few weeks for leather and signed editions, so you can reserve a special edition or two of Dartmoor ahead of publication.

With the new site and automated stock checks we can sell the last few copies of previous leather editions. (Because we the old site did not have an automated stock check, we manually stopped sales just before we were sold out, to make sure we could fulfill all orders).

Alex
Collins

RE: Dartmoor leather

NigelG — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 14:05:42 GMT

According to the section of the website dealing with leatherbound sales, Dartmoor will soon be available and limited to just 100 copies.

RE: Dartmoor leather

David Hutchinson — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 20:43:58 GMT

I see from the web site that copies of leatherbound Dragonflies, Islands, Grouse, S England & Wildfowl are all still available. Demand for these leatherbounds would appear not to be great! I guess the recession will be a major factor so HC may be having a rethink on the numbers the new titles are limited to? The very first one, Woodlands, was in great demand as there were only 100 produced. At £250 per copy I think all future leatherbound issues will need to be pretty exclusive to attract sales. Thoughts HC?

Dartmoor leather

thardy — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 20:52:47 GMT

Will there be leatherbound editions and what is the print run, does anyone know?

Having read how they are made I am tempted!