Trotter wrote:

Picture of Merlin Unwin, portrait of Sir Stanley Unwin and bronze bust of J.R.R. Tolkien

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Ez1PWsuX0AYASr1?format=jpg&name=large

Merlin Unwin have an active Instagram account worth having a look at - and you will also find a much better photo of the Tolkien bust made by Faith Faulconbridge here; and the picture Trotter mentioned with some explanatory text is to be found here.

As I just checked with their website an "epub" option is now available but it as the only information on this seems to be isPOD: noPOD (?) I would not want to buy this yet. I am not going to support a Big A or Apple only option but am hoping it is a full-flegded, open epub.

The official release date for the ePub version is June 1st but it does appear that it is now available on their website for ordering.

https://merlinunwin.co.uk/collections/ ... in?variant=39376304930947

The note you found just says the ePub is not Print On Demand (go figure ?)

Blackwell's has this for now:

- Read on your eReader, tablet, mobile, MAC or desktop PC.
- Currently not compatible with Amazon Kindle.

What basically means because it is not for sale _right now_ it is not compatible with Kindle?

ADDENDUM: The entries on different pages are really odd.

Blackwell's has 2018 as the publishing date for the hardback; the British National Bibliography has £14.99 for the epub, not £30 as the publisher says.

If you interested in the Kindle version it is currently £20.44 or $29.01.

George Allen & Unwin: A Remembrancer
ASIN : B005IH02CG
Publisher : Merlin Unwin Books (1 Jun. 2021)

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George Allen & Unwin: A Remembrancer

Unwin, Rayner

B00J75NB2S

(Kindle Edition)

£19.99

Availability: Now

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George Allen & Unwin: A Remembrancer

Unwin, Rayner

B00J75NB2S

(Kindle Edition)

$26.99

Availability: Now

Check at Amazon.com

Olwe has a wonderful set of posts, including a very nice submission from Merlin Unwin, over on his patreon. Well worth reading!

Thank you for your kind words!

I would also like to let you lot know that only a very, very small number of the signed editions are still available. So if anyone is still hesitating I highly suggest you write to Merlin Unwin today.

It appears that 4 limited editions in slipcases are still available from Merlin Unwin Books according to a Tweet that they sent out today.

**Special Edition**

In addition to the trade edition (£30) of George Allen & Unwin – A Remembrancer by Rayner Unwin, we are offering just 50 copies as a Special Edition.

Each copy of the Special Edition will be numbered, with a tipped-in bookplate, signed by Rayner Unwin’s son, publisher Merlin Unwin.

In partnership with expert craftsmen at Ludlow Bookbinders, the Special Edition will be presented in a hand-made black buckram slipcase, lined with grey suede, and with gold foil blocking of the George Allen & Unwin colophon by the Victorian artist and book illustrator Walter Crane.

Each copy of the Limited Signed and Slip-cased Edition will cost: £125 plus shipping and will be available for delivery from 31 March 2021.

Please contact Merlin Unwin Books to reserve a copy now of this Special Edition (01584 877456 or email us at [email protected]).

https://merlinunwin.co.uk/products/geo ... =r&variant=34339769450627

Trotter wrote:

It appears that 4 limited editions in slipcases are still available from Merlin Unwin Books according to a Tweet that they sent out today.

there are now 3 left

All gone