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20 Oct, 2016
2016-10-20 3:35:41 PM UTC
The Kullervo copyright pg. is carrying the incorrect date; it reads "2015", the year the standard hardback was published. No mention of 2016.

Didn't HC do this was another recent release?

BH
20 Oct, 2016
2016-10-20 7:22:18 PM UTC
Father Christmas Letters incorrectly claimed to be a paperback. Year might have been wrong as well. That was a little while back, mind.
20 Oct, 2016
2016-10-20 8:32:11 PM UTC
May I request of anyone a picture of just Húrin-Sigurd-Arthur-Beowulf-Kullervo (deluxe) standing together?
20 Oct, 2016
2016-10-20 9:16:53 PM UTC


By the way, I may be nitpicking, but doesn't the slipcase have a more "boxy curve" rather than a "curvy curve"? What I mean to say is there seems to be four distinct cuts that make up what (I think) is usually just a single smooth curve.


Well, its made in China.


Stu wrote:
Father Christmas Letters incorrectly claimed to be a paperback. Year might have been wrong as well. That was a little while back, mind.

There is also the infamous Chinese reprint of The Hobbit Deluxe which fails to identify itself as a reprint and proudly boasts a "1" on the copyright page

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Yes, I am sour they printed Kullervo Deluxe in China. The Italian Hobbit Facsimile got my hopes up.
20 Oct, 2016
2016-10-20 9:40:12 PM UTC
Morinehtar wrote:

Yes, I am sour they printed Kullervo Deluxe in China. The Italian Hobbit Facsimile got my hopes up.


I think you are right to make your voice heard on the matter. It is disappointing from a quality and ethical perspective. It is the details that always seem to be wrong as the Chinese inevitably cut corners (quite literally in the case of this slipcase -- they need to cut curves!).

I guess they will make more effort on the first prints as they know HC will be paying more attention, and subsequent prints will be worse. That's just the way it works in China, unless you are 100% on top of the supplier and rejecting their sloppy work.
21 Oct, 2016
2016-10-21 1:13:23 AM UTC

Stu wrote:

I think you are right to make your voice heard on the matter. It is disappointing from a quality and ethical perspective. It is the details that always seem to be wrong as the Chinese inevitably cut corners (quite literally in the case of this slipcase -- they need to cut curves!).

I guess they will make more effort on the first prints as they know HC will be paying more attention, and subsequent prints will be worse. That's just the way it works in China, unless you are 100% on top of the supplier and rejecting their sloppy work.

What I don't understand is why cut corners and try to save on the production of a "Deluxe Edition"? Do that with mass market throwaway paperbacks, not with a collectible item. Makes me sorry I pre-ordered.
21 Oct, 2016
2016-10-21 6:45:12 AM UTC
So true! I am actually turned off by this and am in no hurry to purchase it anymore.

And for that matter, I am glad I haven't shelled out my hard earned money on the first editions of the previous books. I am a completist, and knowing that one of these is an inferior quality book ruins the "collector's appeal" of the entire series for me. I will probably just wait to purchase this when I get it really cheap, if at all.

Boo!
21 Oct, 2016
2016-10-21 8:24:20 AM UTC

Earl wrote:
So true! I am actually turned off by this and am in no hurry to purchase it anymore.

And for that matter, I am glad I haven't shelled out my hard earned money on the first editions of the previous books. I am a completist, and knowing that one of these is an inferior quality book ruins the "collector's appeal" of the entire series for me. I will probably just wait to purchase this when I get it really cheap, if at all.

Boo!

It doesn't really bother me from an entire series perspective (although I fail to see any reason for this to be a deluxe edition at all, frankly). Being Chinese printed AND having construction issues, I can't say it feels like a worthy purchase for me. I can't see this being a big seller, somehow.
21 Oct, 2016
2016-10-21 8:27:04 AM UTC
Allen & Unwin messed up the numbers in the 1st ed. FotR - they printed the 5th imp. in February 1956; then marked the next imp. '5th impression December 1956'. Publishers, eh!

As Rayner Unwin remarked, many years later (on another matter, IIRC) -
"It just goes to show the publishers cannot count'.

21 Oct, 2016
2016-10-21 11:14:36 AM UTC

Stu wrote:

It doesn't really bother me from an entire series perspective (although I fail to see any reason for this to be a deluxe edition at all, frankly). Being Chinese printed AND having construction issues, I can't say it feels like a worthy purchase for me. I can't see this being a big seller, somehow.


I guess my feeling is I would like to have a collection comprising either:

1. All first editions printed and bound in Italy or UK.
2. All non-first editions printed and bound in China.

I think it would annoy the heck out of me to have the one Chinese edition stick out in a collection of superior firsts. That's just me though.

And let's hope they don't go this route for the new Beren and Luthien deluxe edition.
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