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| Just had the email from Collins and bought a few leathers at the more reasonable price of £150 instead of £250. However I did notice that Collins indicate on the website that there may be a few leathers left of older stocks... I am sure it has been done before - or at least asked for - but does anyone know how many leathers produced for each series, since they started doing them, and would Collins add how many have sold? I thought it amusing that they are selling them as 100 year books... I have many normally bound books of 100+ years which are absolutely fine - I do hope they last longer but then I guess we won't all be around to see now will we. Regards Cotswold
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| I to have ordered two of the reduced priced leatherbound editions. My reason for responding to your comments is from a completely different viewpoint. I have a few leatherbounds but only one with a REAL dustwrapper, the earlier books had a plain wrapper. My concern is, over time what damaged could be caused to the the leather if the paper is not acid free or if there is any other form of interaction between the different materials. I am toying with removing all forms of paper wrappers and having the outside of the spine of the slipcase to be visible on the bookshelf, then copy the spine of the dustwrappers from the originals and paste it on to the slipcase. Have not done this yet, anyone else have a better idea. jim
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| Just received my three leathers today. Somehwat surprised that the paper jacket over the leather whilst lovely carries the rrp of £50. I would have thought it quite easy to either not carry a price or at least carry the correct one. I buy these books to read and as an investment for the future.Other than that, they all look very good. Cotswold
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Certainly £150 is an attractive and more affordable price, which has also allowed me to add 3 titles to my shelf. I only wish I had waited patiently instead of buying some of the other titles at the full price when I thought there might be few left or waited instead of buying the latest titles as they come out, but I suppose pre-ordering helps get a lower copy number. Certainly HC has to manage the costs around the dwindling stocks of these limited edition issues and I can appreciate they want to clear some last few copies and us lucky latecomers can reap some benefit, but will the future model be to have a pre-order price of £199 that will drop to £150 after a few months? Again this is up to us buyers to make our own decisions take our chances. Does this sale price also suggest that NN's going into another period of lower popularity for collectors when a 75 copy leather edition goes for £150 but a 1500 copy 1st ed Hebrides has historically approached a £1000 each? Interesting to see what the future holds and whether Hc will continue to see the value in leatherbounds if they have problems selling 75 copies of each of them? Will our NN "investments" increase in value as in the past? We will have to wait and see what a leatherbound Woodlands would go for on ebay now to know.
Re dust jackets for the pre "Books and Naturalists" leatherbounds I have resorted to trying to buy fire sale or bargain standard hardback copies through HC or elsewhere and transferring the covers to the leatherbound as they are identical apart from a lack of Roberts signature, but this has lead to a sad accumulation of a few "naked" hardbacks of recent volumes on my shelves which will have no resale value I suspect. With HC currently selling these at £25 each means that Dj'ed leatherbounds can still be had for £175 which in my view is still a good price
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Like the other posters I have just topped up my leatherbounds. How did yours arrive? Mine just arrived in an ordinary jiffy bag, with the 2 books individually wrapped by a single covering of bubble wrap. So they floated in the bag. I was just amazed they survived. What happened to the cardboard box they used to arrive in?
That has the first stomach turning moment!
The next came when on looking for the limitation tipped in page in the copy of Wildfowl I find none! Alex if you are reading this - what happed to the last paragraph of how to make a leather bound? Of course this could make it ultra rare!
Come on HC - please try.
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| Still the same packaging fiasco i see...is a cardboard box to much to ask for Alex???? well after all the previous broken promises..we all know the answer to this dont we ..YES a cardboard packaging box IS to much to ask for from Collins!
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| Well chaps, i have to say mine came very well wrapped and no problems at all. Cardboard, bubble wrap etc... I am a collector so don't want anything that isn't spot on but all fine as far as I was concerned. Cotswold
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