Christmas Collection 2025

Hi all,

I know it's a bit early to think about the Christmas collection, but Folio usually releases it in October. As such, does anyone know what would be included in this set? Specifically, do you think there will be standard editions of It and Poe's Tales of Mystery and Imagination?

>1 cazaniq:
A standard Tales of Mystery and Imagination was done back in 1990 (see https://www.librarything.com/topic/344189) so less likely (but not impossible) that they will do another one now.

>1 cazaniq: Probably not It -- that'll most likely be a mid-to-late 2026 book. Based on demand, I do believe the new Poe LE will get a SE release as well, maybe in 2026. Pure speculation, though.

The only books that we know are coming soon are Cormac McCarthy's The Crossing and Gabrielle Zevin's Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow (not including God Emperor of Dune which has already been announced for October). There's also a delayed new edition of Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe that was teased for last Christmas that's in the works...

I really do hope they don't continue the shift towards the tacky, especially with All Hallows Eve drawing nigh at that time. The ghoul book complete with pop up graveyard etc.

>1 cazaniq:
>2 wcarter:

And there was another standard edition of Tales of Mystery and Imagination in 1999, with illustrations by Harry Clarke taken from older editions (1919 and 1933).

I'm hoping for Excession.

Things fall apart would be great, and better still if they published more of his work.

There's also the long-dashed hope of Shogun, and again the whole sequence would be even better.

Also I'd like to see Plato return!

>6 DukeOfOmnium:

I know it's not Folio Society with regard to quality and illustrations (but also higher prices), but The Broken Binding have done a nice edition of Shogun and plan to do the series.

>3 HonorWulf: Interesting! Although didn't the Poe LE just come out last year? The one that featured the Tell Tale Heart on the cover?

There's just so many LE's coming out these days!

>7 SF-72: Thanks, yes. I'm happy to wait it out with Shogun - if FS do an edition then that's great, but a re-read will wait until they do. I have a large number of FS volumes in my to-be-read pile anyway at the moment. Broken Binding editions are ok, but don't quite get over the wire.

>9 DukeOfOmnium:

Understandable.

What I don't get in this context is why Broken Binding seem to be the only one so far to consider making a proper set of the while series. One publisher did a special edition of Shogun, but then couldn't be bothered to continue.

>6 DukeOfOmnium: Wouldn't State of the Art be the next one in the Culture series?

Perhaps there will be another Moomin book?

>8 cazaniq: Yes, Folio's been pretty quick on the turnaround for SE's of recently released LE's. This year, we've had SE's of A Canticle for Leibowitz, The Book Thief, The King of Elfland's Daughter, and Neuromancer, all of which came out as LE's in 2024.

Speak of the devil, Folio just teased the Edgar Allan Poe book as part of their Christmas Collection:

https://www.instagram.com/p/DPMAHjGCMFs/?hl=en&img_index=1

That plus 12 more titles (including Dune) to be revealed tomorrow.

>14 HonorWulf: If you keep scrolling right through the Instagram post, there are teases for all 13 titles. There's also Pippi Longstocking peeping through a die-cut slipcase window, another Enid Blyton Faraway Tree title, a Dune title, and something with The Beatles on the cover. Exciting!

>15 CLWggg: Yes, one of them looks like The Crossing, another a possible SE of 1984, and that Samurai sword is intriguing!

Exciting! Looking forward to seeing whys coming tomorrow!

Changed title of thread for future reference.

1. Tales of Mystery and Imagination SE - Edgar Allan Poe
2. Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow - Gabrielle Zevin
3. The Templars: The Rise and Spectacular Fall of God’s Holy Warriors - Dan Jones
4. Pippi Longstocking - Astrid Lindgren
5. ?
6. The Crossing - Cormac McCarthy
7. ?
8. New Enid Blyton
9. ?
10. God Emperor of Dune - Frank Herbert
11. Beatles book?
12. 1984 SE
13. Shogun?

>19 assemblyman: The 7th looks like the Fifth Season by N. K. Jemisin.

I might be tempted by the Poe SE but really hoping the binding will be more "subtle" than the LE

>20 HonorWulf: I have never read it but it's been on my TBR pile for a while.

>19 assemblyman:

Thank you for putting this list together.

For me probably the Dan Jones and definitely Dune. I already have two editions of Shogun and one of the Jemisin, so not likely.

Cool as the Curious King Jemisin books are, I wish I had know there would be FS editions!

>23 SF-72: No problem. God Emperor of Dune for me too and hopefully Shogun (if that's what it is).

>19 assemblyman: Number 9 may be ‘The Starless Sea’?

Actually, I don't see any must haves in the entire list. Were you to twist my arm a lot I could see three vaguely possible titles, but it's a stretch. Roll on Spring :)

God Emperor of Dune is a must-have; Pippi Longstocking and The Crossing are very likely; the rest, not sure. Much less tempting than the last collection which I would happily have bought almost all of.

Really excited for what must be Shogun. That's the Tokugawa clan symbol, which is the fictive Toranaga's inspiration. Art style looks up my alley as well.
The Crossing is a must for me. Hope they continue after The Border Trilogy is done.
1984 appeals more to me as an SE, nice cover.
Tales of Mystery and Imagination is less garish as an SE but has so many great alternatives, from FS itself no less (the Harry Clarke edition).

I will pick up the next Dune, Shogun, and the McCarthy.

A question for the Dune cognoscenti - how far should one read in the series? I have read only the first two (in their FS editions), but should I stop after the first three? Four? Six? Is there reason, given my limited reading time, to go any further?

I would not have gone beyond the first. Children is better than Messiah but neither are very good.

>32 coynedj: Four main ways: Dune, Dune+Messiah, Dune->God Emperor, or all the way to the end. I think most fans would say following to God Emperor is the right choice unless you're a completionist. Worth remembering that Herbert died before completing the work as intended, his son finished the series based on his notes, a lot of discussion about to what extent there were notes and how successfully he did so.

>32 coynedj: I love all six. That said, the zenith is the fourth book, imo, which crystalizes Herbert's vision of the series and, along with the first book, are the best regarded in the series. The fifth and sixth books never reach the same heights but are still entertaining, and heads taller than most sci-fi out there.

>35 HonorWulf: I'm the same, I love all six. I have a soft spot for Heretics of Dune. The less said about his son's follow on novels the better. I only had the FS Dune until recently but the upcoming release of God Emperor has encouraged me to start to collect the rest.

And thanks to a swell fellow over on the Fans of Folio FB page, we have no. 9 as O'Farrell's Hamnet:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TgXK7dQvGXg

>37 FitzJames: Exciting news…also watching that video makes me want to get the new paddington, looks beautiful!

A two-volume Shôgun? Why, thank you kindly.

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Edit, the titles!

Blyton's The Folk of the Faraway Tree
Brown's Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee
Clavell's Shôgun
Herbert's God Emperor of Dune
Jones' The Templars
Lindgren's Pippi Longstocking
McCarthy's The Crossing
Norman's SHOUT!
O'Farrell's Hamnet
Okorafor's The Binti Trilogy
Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-four, SE
Poe's Tales of Mystery & Imagination, SE
Zevin's Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

Did they confirm what the book above the Dune book is?

>40 RRCBS: The Binti Trilogy -Nnedi Okorafor

>40 RRCBS: Oh sorry! I will edit with all of the titles.

The Binti Trilogy is an interesting surprise. But, darn, another large collection for me with Dune, Poe, The Crossing, Shogun and Binti as immediate purchases. Need to noodle on 1984 -- I think I'm pretty happy with the Jonathan Burton edition that I already have on the shelf.

Surprized they decided to do The Templars since they published The Trial of the Templars (Malcolm Barber) back in 2003. It was reprinted at least three times too. Of the others, I'll likely go with Shout and the Poe

>42 FitzJames: thank you, really appreciate it!

I’m definitely in for the Dune and Hamnet. Interested in The Binti Trilogy, will do some research. Ok collection, not as good as their usual Christmas collection in my opinion, but then the Fall collection was better than usual so will have a good sized order between the two collections.

>39 FitzJames: Thanks! The Okorafor trilogy does sound interesting, I've not read her work yet but it has promise. I like seeing Hamnet in the batch as well, it's on my to-be-read pile currently and is another one with potential.

Big SFF fan and so happy FS is building out their catalogue in those genres. But man I am very disappointed to see Binti taking up a spot that could have been filled by a hundred other SFF books that are better written and more influential (even if they are less current). I suppose there is a "credentials" flex for FS in publishing the author who proudly coined the phrase "africanfuturism" (because existing uses of “Afrofuturism” didn’t fit what she was trying to do...) but if you wanted to publish someone that shows your relevancy in this vein then I'm baffled you why you wouldn't go with NK Jemisin. She's not as amazing as the buzz around her might imply, but she's definitely orders of magnitude better (and more a bigger name) than Okorafor.

Here's my review of book 1 from last year. I am happy to be told I'm missing something here... but sometimes FS's selections are so confusing. I'm grieving the opportunity cost, I guess.
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/6625479541

>47 CliveReuelAurelius: It looks like "Africanfuturist" might be a replacement term for "Afrofuturist". I hadn't noticed it before, but it's also being applied to one of my favorite authors in the genre, Tlotlo Tsamaase. So maybe an evolution of the same term into a new form?

>47 CliveReuelAurelius: I was thinking that I read Binti and I have completely forgotten about its plot. Contrary to Tade Thompson's Rosewood which I fairly remember.

>48 Shadekeep:
She's an academic so the distinction probably feels critical to her. But I think it's a distinction without a difference. The most cynical interpretation is that she's creating the differentiation to make her name more visible. I assume the former. The broader genre is very cool and even important. The posturing less so.

>47 CliveReuelAurelius: One thing to keep in mind is that licensing plays a big part in Folio's publishing plans. Not everything is available for license and, for the ones that are, the licensing costs need to be weighed for publishing viability.

I would have avoided Shogun if it wasn't two volumes. I'm glad they did the right thing.

I wonder if they’ll leave it at Shogun - off the back of the success of the recent TV series - or if they’ve plans to continue the saga.

I’ve only read Shogun and Tai Pan but keep meaning to get back to the others.

>38 RRCBS: Having spent a couple of evenings reading and enjoying it, I would very much recommend A Bear Called Paddington. It's a lovely edition and I hope they follow on with a few more in the series.

>39 FitzJames: I missed out on Folio's previous edition of Bury My Heart ... so might be tempted by this. The previous one is not too pricey on ebay, though.

>50 CliveReuelAurelius: As I say, I hadn't really noticed the variant term "Africanfuturist" before. But seeing it applied to a second author as well (Tsamaase) makes me feel like it might be like a movement within the culture to update the term, rather than a single author preferring a new variant. Though this is an assumption I am making on the very thinnest of evidence (one counter case), so no surprise if I'm entirely off-base.

And there is a lot of Afrofuturist writing I like, regardless of the term du jour. ^_^

>56 NovelNexus: It's far more accessible than Blood Meridian. I think No Country is probably his most accessible (I haven't yet read The Road) and The Crossing is quite close to that. The subtext may be a challenge to some but the novel itself is quite straightforward - and that goes for the entire Border Trilogy (IMO).

>56 NovelNexus: I think The Crossing is my favourite work by McCarthy. Suttree might be a better candidate for classic (it is certainly funnier) but something about The Crossing speaks to me.

I hope the illustrations are better than their take on the other Folio McCarthy volumes.

Thanks to all who answered my question about the Dune books. I felt that Dune Messiah wasn't as good as the original Dune, but it tied some things up that I thought the first book left hanging. I bought Children of Dune when it was published, but haven't gotten to it yet. I think I might pick up God Emperor and leave it at that - I'm not generally a completist, especially with science fiction series that seem to go on and on.

Re the collection: with 1Q84 and Shogun being two volumes each, my next order may be a very expensive one (plus God Emperor, Piranesi, A Canticle for Liebowitz, and maybe Klara). I already have Poe, Orwell, and Wounded Knee in prior FS editions. I found Hamnet fairly entertaining but not something needing a high-quality edition, and found Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow better but also not needing a high-quality edition. Shout! looks like it could be a fun read, being a boomer, but a paperback copy will do me just fine. Nothing else catches my attention.

>59 coynedj:
My only point of disagreement is that I found Hamnet vastly better than TTandT! But a trade hardback of the former more than enough (and far more attractive: how dull is that cover?!).

For me, Dune was enough (brilliant book and edition). I have all those previous FS editions too. The Everyman edition of The Border Trilogy more than enough there. Could go on, but the only possible from here is Shogun. But hate to think what price. It would be my first fiction direct from FS in 5 years though, as they're nowadays generally not producing novels worth (to me) having in high quality editions if not already got them.

Likewise I have the Poe and Everyman edition of the Border trilogy. For me, the Everyman’s give a nice reading experience so no need for another edition.

I haven’t read TT&T, for some reason as a non gamer millennial I just wouldn’t want to read a book about gaming (I know I’m weird).

For those interested in Shogun (agreed it will be expensive, probably the same as 1Q84), do you think book is of literary value enough for a Folio? Not trying to start a conversation about how FS has gone downhill, just trying to get a sense of how to classify Shogun in terms of needing a FS edition or not.

>61 RRCBS: I was among the many people here who argued for Shogun as a Folio release. It is a gripping and masterfully told story which, in my opinion, well merits the Folio treatment.

>61 RRCBS: I am unsure how to place Shogun, too; except to say that I really enjoyed reading it, and have re-read it a few times. Personally, I think Clavell's King Rat is a masterpiece of (prisoner of) war fiction, and of ethics and morality, but I am not holding my breath for a quality edition as it is a very dark book.

>61 RRCBS: Shogun is not high art, it's a historical page turner (that while good for its time is not exactly fastidious with the facts). It's a great yarn though and manages to make the page count feel justified. Maybe it'll ruffle some feathers but I'd place it alongside Lonesome Dove - another oft wished for book in FS surveys. If you can enjoyably re-read a doorstopper it has some literary merit. Ben-Hur and Gone With The Wind used to show up in lists of best books and fine editions (LEC, Franklin Library for instance) and they were incredibly popular, a bit forgotten at this point. It might be heresy to say it, but Dickens wrote for a popular audience to great acclaim as well. It can be a fickle thing to attribute value.

I'm still having difficulty in choosing from this list. Currently the count stands at one and a half. The 1 is the Enid Blyton. If people can give me s good reason to add, or even just to read Pippi Longstocking I'm prepared to promote it to second on my list. After the outstanding Autumn collection I find this effort disappointing but I'm consoled by the thought it will place less pressure on shelf space. It's been one in, one out for a good while now.

I have some concerns about the spine design for Shogun. It looks rather pulpy and not the fitting for the first special edition of the book. I hope to be pleasantly surprised when I see the whole thing.

Individual shots, Pt. I:

And individual shots, Pt. II:

And with sign up at the following:

https://www.foliosociety.com/uk/christmas-reveal
https://www.foliosociety.com/row/christmas-reveal
https://www.foliosociety.com/ca/christmas-reveal
https://www.foliosociety.com/usa/christmas-reveal

Edit: Keep getting Canada's abbreviation wrong, apologies.

Really like Tales of Mystery and Imagination -- prefer it over the LE design. I also hope The Binti Trilogy can fly through space... that would be a nice value add.

>64 A.Godhelm: I have never read Gone With the Wind, but I have read Ben-Hur. It was a ludicrous book, though a good movie was pulled out of it (largely by cutting the large quantity of ludicrous stuff). I have never read Shogun, but Lonesome Dove was quite good and I wouldn't complain a bit about an FS edition.

Shogun, finally! The only book I've been waiting for FS to do and it's finally coming. Years in the waiting.

So it seems the only paperbound volume is Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow?

>73 dyhtstriyk: I thought 1984 and Bury my Heart at Wounded Knee also looked paperbound based on the pictures so far. I could be wrong though.

>74 assemblyman: That 1984 almost looks like printed cloth to me, which would be ironic given that the LE was paper. Will need to wait for more details to confirm, though, as it's hard to tell definitively from the picture.

>74 assemblyman: >75 HonorWulf:

From those photographs, I thought Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow and Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee looked to be paper-bound. Unsure on Nineteen Eighty-four but it looks like the gloss I'd associate with buckram.

>76 FitzJames: Agreed, Tomorrow and Wounded Knee appear to be the two full paper binds, at least based on those photos.

Has there ever been a faster turnaround for a Folio version of a novel than Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow?

It was published in the summer of '22, so roughly three years from new release to Folio.

>78 kcshankd: I think Tom Holland's Pax was originally published in summer 2023.

>79 HonorWulf: Haven't read Pax but was under the impression it was narrative history vs a novel

>80 kcshankd: Yes, Pax is non-fiction.

>78 kcshankd:

The Secret Commonwealth was just three years, October 2019 to October 2022

>80 kcshankd: Ah novels specifically as opposed to any title.

Firstly:
Zevin's Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, publ. 5th Jul. 2022 (Knopf) || Folio Ed.: 21st Oct. 2025
— 3 years, 3 months, 16 days

And suffering from a certain amount of recency bias, in duration descending:

O'Farrell's Hamnet, publ. 31st Mar. 2020 (Tinder Press) || Folio Ed.: 21st Oct. 2025
— 5 years, 6 months, 21 days
Clarke's Piranesi, publ. 20th Sept. 2020 (Bloomsbury) || Folio Ed.: 6th May 2025
— 4 years, 7 months, 16 days
Mantel's The Mirror & the Light, publ. 5th Mar. 2020 (Fourth Estate) || Folio Ed.: 15th Oct. 2024
— 4 years, 7 months, 10 days
Ishiguro's Klara and the Sun, publ. 2nd Mar. 2021 (Faber & Faber) || Folio Ed.: 16th Sept. 2025
— 4 years, 6 months, 14 days
Pullman's The Secret Commonwealth, publ. 3rd Oct. 2019 (David Fickling) || Folio Ed.: 11th Oct. 2022
— 3 years, 8 days

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>82 affle: Apologies, I was evidently rather slow!

>83 FitzJames:
Excellent and interesting list. I will add rhis to the FSD wiki.
Thanks.

>84 wcarter: If you're going to add to wiki and include all book types, Tom Holland's Pax was published July 6th 2023 by Abacus. The Folio was released Sept 16th 2025, which was 2 years, 2 months, 10 days later.

>85 HonorWulf:
Great. Thanks.

Shogun looks like paper binding.

>87 icewindraider: If you zoom in, you can see the cloth textile grain, assuming the photo is an accurate representation.

>82 affle: The Book of Dust #3: The Rose Field is being published this month. I wouldn't be surprised if the Folio edition comes within a couple of years so they can complete the series.

>84 wcarter: You are most welcome! Thank you!

To add two to the non-fiction list, which handily beats the fiction in Folio turnarounds:

Brusatte's The Rise and Reign of the Mammals, publ. 7th Jun. 2022 (Mariner Books) || Folio Ed.: 17th Sept. 2024
— 2 years, 3 months, 10 days
Beard's Emperor of Rome, publ. 28th Sept. 2023 (Profile) || Folio Ed.: 15th Oct. 2024
— 1 year, 17 days

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>87 icewindraider: >88 HonorWulf: I am with HonorWulf here, cloth-bound volumes, and cloth-covered slipcase too which seems a mite more sturdy than the usual affair, very much in the vein closer to Gormenghast: n.b. Folio used the term 'lavish two-volume set' and while that doesn't necessarily rule out paper-bound, I think if you've gone to the trouble of a heavier cloth-bound slipcase, the volumes too will be in cloth.

Detail crops for elucidation (showing corner tucks to fabric at slipcase corners and material at closer resolution):

>90 FitzJames: Thanks for the close up of Shogun. The book binding looked like cloth but I assumed the slipcase was just paper covered. This will be pricey.

Notice the ribbon markers for Shogun.

>92 saintmelville: They were indeed noted, dark brown I believe.

>91 assemblyman: I'm betting 175-200 pounds for ROW

If I am not mistaken, Shôgun is under 9 inches tall, though whether that makes the price any less 'lavish' is another matter.

>95 FitzJames: I asked a question over on the fine press forum recently about how the intrinsic cost of materials and labour is reflected in the retail price of the books. It was a very illuminating discussion and I left it convinced that the standard editions from most fine presses are something of a 'bargain' for the price paid. Link to that discussion if anyone's interested: https://www.librarything.com/topic/373972#n8958445

Bringing it back to this discussion, would a small change in size be at all material in the overall cost of manufacturing something like Shogun? Surely it must be pennies in additional costs to go from a page size of say 8 > 10 inches?

>96 cyber_naut: Thank you most kindly for the link to the discussion! A very interesting read.

As to bringing it back here, I really am not qualified enough to guess. I thought it interesting insofar as it wasn't as large a volume as I had expected (beside the 9" McCarthy and the 9" O'Farrell, I'm guessing Shôgun to be 8 ¾" or 9" if the perspective is throwing me terribly. The point being, not the 10" of a Murakami, a Herbert, or Gormenghast).

The Pippi Longstocking book looks interesting.

>65 folio_books: I'll confess I confused Pippi with Lizzie Dripping.

>99 Cat_of_Ulthar:

I'd completely forgotten about Lizzie Dripping!

I wonder if there is to be an additional title to the Christmas Collection, namely, to wit, and viz. Dicken's A Christmas Carol SE?

From the 'Coming Soon' landing page:



...and a detail crop:

And Folio have whisked the errant photograph away within the hour.

>102 FitzJames: They're clearly on to us!

Where’s the laughter emoji when needed? The design is hilariously awful, but when coupled with marketing error, this entire release reeks of amateurism.

😂

Do we have a release date for the collection yet?

I'm tempted by The Templars and 1984, assuming they're cloth bound.

>106 Inceptic: October 21st

Shôgun is up, and my he is swell!

Ill. Chris Malbon

Each volume includes: Six colour illustrations, including two double-page spreads
One black and white title-page illustration
Six black and white part-title spreads

Bound in printed and blocked cloth

Gilded on top edge

Ribbon markers

Cloth-bound slipcase with inner lining

10 inches x 6¾ inches

Vol. I: 464 pp.

Vol. II: 752 pp.

£150 | £175 | CA$300 | USD$215

https://www.foliosociety.com/uk/shogun
https://www.foliosociety.com/row/shogun
https://www.foliosociety.com/ca/shogun
https://www.foliosociety.com/usa/shogun

Likewise up, Hamnet and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow.

Hamnet:

Ill. Becca Thorne

Five colour illustrations, including two double-page spreads
Two part-title decorations
Illustrated drop caps and decorative motifs throughout

Bound in screen-printed and blocked cloth

Printed in black and green throughout

Blocked slipcase

9 inches x 6¼ inches

384 pp.

£65 | £75 | CA$130 | USD$90

https://www.foliosociety.com/uk/hamnet
https://www.foliosociety.com/row/hamnet
https://www.foliosociety.com/ca/hamnet
https://www.foliosociety.com/usa/hamnet

Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow:

Ill. Manshen Lo

Seven full-page colour illustrations including frontispiece

Silver slipcase blocked with holographic foil

Bound in printed paper with text blocked in neon foil

9½ inches x 6¼ inches

496 pp.

£65 | £75 | CA$130 | USD$90

https://www.foliosociety.com/uk/tomorrow-and-tomorrow-and-tomorrow
https://www.foliosociety.com/row/tomorrow-and-tomorrow-and-tomorrow
https://www.foliosociety.com/ca/tomorrow-and-tomorrow-and-tomorrow
https://www.foliosociety.com/usa/tomorrow-and-tomorrow-and-tomorrow

And so it begins!

Christmas Collection titles, with pages finished by Folio below.

For a quick binding breakdown...

Cloth-bound:
God Emperor of Dune
Hamnet
Nineteen Eighty-four
Shôgun (w. t.e.g.)
SHOUT!
Tales of Mystery & Imagination (w. t.e.g./stained)
The Binti Trilogy
The Crossing
The Templars

Cloth- & Paper-bound:
Pippi Longstocking
The Folk of the Faraway Tree

Paper-bound:
A Christmas Carol
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

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n.b. the details say the SE Poe has paper sides that is in no way borne out by the images unless my eyes are of no use whatsoever: the quarter-bound line looks quite 'printed' on the cloth. Further, the Poe has a stained/gilt top edge not mentioned. Likely the publication details are yet to be 'fixed'.

UK

https://www.foliosociety.com/uk/a-christmas-carol-charles-dickens
https://www.foliosociety.com/uk/bury-my-heart-at-wounded-knee-dee-brown
https://www.foliosociety.com/uk/god-emperor-of-dune
https://www.foliosociety.com/uk/hamnet
https://www.foliosociety.com/uk/nineteen-eighty-four-george-orwell
https://www.foliosociety.com/uk/pippi-longstocking
https://www.foliosociety.com/uk/shogun
https://www.foliosociety.com/uk/shout
https://www.foliosociety.com/uk/tales-of-mystery-and-imagination
https://www.foliosociety.com/uk/the-binti-trilogy
https://www.foliosociety.com/uk/the-crossing
https://www.foliosociety.com/uk/the-folk-of-the-faraway-tree
https://www.foliosociety.com/uk/the-templars
https://www.foliosociety.com/uk/tomorrow-and-tomorrow-and-tomorrow

ROW
https://www.foliosociety.com/row/a-christmas-carol-charles-dickens
https://www.foliosociety.com/row/bury-my-heart-at-wounded-knee-dee-brown
https://www.foliosociety.com/row/god-emperor-of-dune
https://www.foliosociety.com/row/hamnet
https://www.foliosociety.com/row/nineteen-eighty-four-george-orwell
https://www.foliosociety.com/row/pippi-longstocking
https://www.foliosociety.com/row/shogun
https://www.foliosociety.com/row/shout
https://www.foliosociety.com/row/tales-of-mystery-and-imagination
https://www.foliosociety.com/row/the-binti-trilogy
https://www.foliosociety.com/row/the-crossing
https://www.foliosociety.com/row/the-folk-of-the-faraway-tree
https://www.foliosociety.com/row/the-templars
https://www.foliosociety.com/row/tomorrow-and-tomorrow-and-tomorrow

CAN
https://www.foliosociety.com/ca/a-christmas-carol-charles-dickens
https://www.foliosociety.com/ca/bury-my-heart-at-wounded-knee-dee-brown
https://www.foliosociety.com/ca/god-emperor-of-dune
https://www.foliosociety.com/ca/hamnet
https://www.foliosociety.com/ca/nineteen-eighty-four-george-orwell
https://www.foliosociety.com/ca/pippi-longstocking
https://www.foliosociety.com/ca/shogun
https://www.foliosociety.com/ca/shout
https://www.foliosociety.com/ca/tales-of-mystery-and-imagination
https://www.foliosociety.com/ca/the-binti-trilogy
https://www.foliosociety.com/ca/the-crossing
https://www.foliosociety.com/ca/the-folk-of-the-faraway-tree
https://www.foliosociety.com/ca/the-templars
https://www.foliosociety.com/ca/tomorrow-and-tomorrow-and-tomorrow

USA
https://www.foliosociety.com/usa/a-christmas-carol-charles-dickens
https://www.foliosociety.com/usa/bury-my-heart-at-wounded-knee-dee-brown
https://www.foliosociety.com/usa/god-emperor-of-dune
https://www.foliosociety.com/usa/hamnet
https://www.foliosociety.com/usa/nineteen-eighty-four-george-orwell
https://www.foliosociety.com/usa/pippi-longstocking
https://www.foliosociety.com/usa/shogun
https://www.foliosociety.com/usa/shout
https://www.foliosociety.com/usa/tales-of-mystery-and-imagination
https://www.foliosociety.com/usa/the-binti-trilogy
https://www.foliosociety.com/usa/the-crossing
https://www.foliosociety.com/usa/the-folk-of-the-faraway-tree
https://www.foliosociety.com/usa/the-templars
https://www.foliosociety.com/usa/tomorrow-and-tomorrow-and-tomorrow

>110 FitzJames: Thanks for this. Very helpful.

>110 FitzJames: Yes thanks for the links! My golly, Shogun really looks great.

I'm still quite bitter about the illustrations on the McCarthy's - not to my taste. I'm slowly breaking down though. FOMO is getting the better of me and I know I'm going to give in and end up buying the set. There just aren't many other nice McCarthy editions out there. The Suntup are very nice but generally out of my price range.

Thanks for the links. Christmas is a pass for me this year. A few I may pick up in the futgure, if I can bundle them with other books of interest, or if they go on sale. But nothing at current price and shipping cost. It is OK, as I spent Christmas dollars early on the Fall collection.

>108 FitzJames: The pricetag is hefty but boy does this look great.

>108 FitzJames: Thanks, have to admit I was expecting Shogun to hit the £165 (UK) price point that seems to have become common for 2-volume works with 'extras'. Although I see IQ84 is also £150 so perhaps the £165 is reserved for non-fiction titles (reference Anglo Saxons, Aztecs, Tomb of Tutankhamun, etc).

For Poe, do you think it might be the same text block as the LE? Since the title page says “and the Raven” which was a standalone chapbook for the LE, but I think is not included as an extra for the SE?

Have to say, Shogun is the first FS fiction to tempt me for a very long time (only bought Nights At the Circus and Humphry Clinker in sales since before lockdown. Last full price was completing my FS Sayers collection in 2019!).

>117 Willoyd: it does look like a very nice production. Have you read it before? Would be interested in opinions on the novel itself. I’ve come away with mixed thoughts based on my research regarding it being more of an airport thriller or a novel with more depth.

>116 BorisG: The title page carries '2025' so it cannot be the identical text block in the manner of The Shadow of the Wind or The Book Thief's SE and LE.

But it doesn't look like there is any substantial difference except the title page of the LE's Acompanied by 'The Raven' becoming and 'The Raven' by virtue of no longer being a standalone letterpress inclusion.

The new SE is listed as 9½ inches x 6¼ inches, but I am afraid I don't know the precise dimension of the preceding LE.

I really miss the days when FS would offer free shipping with purchase of 5-6 books! Small thing but adds up for non UK.

>120 RRCBS: I miss the days - even if only during SALE, when they had a flat shipping rate of £7 or £8 per order to anywhere in the world.

>120 RRCBS:

Me too.

>118 RRCBS: It's a very long time since I read it, and one probably shouldn't go back that far with books, but I do remember it as a great read. I would probably find that I've changed a lot in the time - actually I have! - which is why I'm currently just at the tempted stage, but that's far more down the buying route than I've been with FS fiction for ages! I will probably do some reading around first.

>32 coynedj:

Two or three. After that they are increasingly unhinged and badly written (imho). There are better places to use your precious time.

It has been a while since I have posted, but October is looking like a good month. The Christmas Carol LE (even if they are bringing out an SE later in the month), as well as Shogun, which has been at the top of my wish list for so long. I have the entire Asian trilogy, this will be my third version of Shogun.

>125 Hamwick:

What editions do you have so far?

I do hope that someone will do the whole Asian series, the Broken Binding seems to be planning to do so, but that's as yet unclear with FS.

>126 SF-72: I have two hardback versions from Blackstone Publishing. One was recommended to me from a fellow Devotee. One of books has a black bonded leather cover, the paper is quite thin. The pages are at least sown. So, not great but the best I have found to date. Hence my hoping and requesting a Folio Society version.

>127 Hamwick:

Thank you. I also have the bonded leather edition, as well as the one be The Broken Binding.

Hamnet in the hands of the illustrator, a teaser:

https://www.instagram.com/p/DPy9g97iJ_f/

And the final addition to the Christmas Collection, A Christmas Carol, SE, another for the paper-bounds:

https://www.foliosociety.com/uk/a-christmas-carol-charles-dickens
https://www.foliosociety.com/row/a-christmas-carol-charles-dickens
https://www.foliosociety.com/ca/a-christmas-carol-charles-dickens
https://www.foliosociety.com/usa/a-christmas-carol-charles-dickens

And the links to the signed Tomorrow, & Tomorrow, & Tomorrow:

https://www.foliosociety.com/uk/tomorrow-and-tomorrow-and-tomorrow-signed-editio...
https://www.foliosociety.com/row/tomorrow-and-tomorrow-and-tomorrow-signed-editi...
https://www.foliosociety.com/ca/tomorrow-and-tomorrow-and-tomorrow-signed-editio...
https://www.foliosociety.com/usa/tomorrow-and-tomorrow-and-tomorrow-signed-editi...

When will these be on sale?

>132 howtoeatrat: Tuesday.

For those interested, the signed Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow is up for sale now.

>108 FitzJames: shogun looks fantastic! Are we certain it’s 6 color illustrations per volume? If you look at the FS link they are stating 6 color illustrations, but doesn’t state “per volume.”
I believe the 6 part title black-and-white spreads is across both volumes as there are 6 parts to the book.

>135 doucci95:

"Black and white title-page illustration
Six colour illustrations including two double-page spreads
Six black and white part-title spreads"

So yes, that's only six colour and altogether seven black and white illustrations across 1200 pages. They could have been more generous at this price and for a book like this.

>136 SF-72: Yes. For a book that’s over 1000 pages total and to only have 6 color Illustrations that’s pretty weak, especially for the price. Very disappointing. I was hoping that a FS edition of Shogun would be lavishly illustrated.

>137 doucci95:

Exactly. And I don't know who else to hope for now. Suntup might theoretically do it, you never know, but they rarely commission that many illustrations per book these days. American Gods was a very pleasant surprise in that regard, though.

There are books that provide occasional opportunities for illustration, and then there are books that provide abundant opportunities. Shogun is in the latter category.

>135 doucci95: My comment from 10 days ago carried the precise description of Shôgun as Folio wrote it. Evidently it has been edited since.

Edit: from the original description I understood it as: i. six colour illustrations a volume, and ii. the seven title and part-title black and white illustrations, for a total of 19 illustrations.

Now it would seem to be 13 in total, in which case all of the colour illustrations are included on the webpage: two spreads, four single pages.

>140 FitzJames:

That would have been a lot better.

Does the collection go live today and if so, when approximately?

>141 SF-72: Yes at 4pm BT / 11am ET

>142 HonorWulf:

Thank you very much. It used to be much earlier in the day, so I was a bit confused.

>143 SF-72: They are accommodating us yankees!

>144 HonorWulf:

Makes sense and good for you. I wish some other shops gave more thought to different time zones.

Is God Emperor of Dune going live today, too? It still says coming soon, while Shogun can be bought now.

I can't believe it, they finally did it! After 7 years of asking they actually published Shogun!

Persistence pays off!

Gratuitous use of exclamation points is now over.

!!!

Okay, Dune is available elsewhere but not on ROW. That's not good.

>147 Sorion: since you seem successful in your persistence, can you ask them to do Lonesome Dove next?

>148 SF-72: I see all books in all four stores.

>150 HonorWulf:

They are now. For about 20 minutes, God Emperor wasn't available in ROW. I guess someone noticed that and corrected the mistake.

>149 snottlebocket: Lonsome Dove would be a wonderful addition to the FS. Gus and Call deserve that kind of special treatment.

Approximate stock levels:

SHOUT! ~500
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee ~750
The Binti Trilogy ~2000
The Folk of the Faraway Tree ~2000
Hamnet ~2000
Pippi Longstocking ~2000
Shogun ~2000
The Templars ~2000
Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow ~2000
Nineteen Eighty-Four ~2400
The Crossing ~3000
Tales of Mystery and Imagination ~3000
A Christmas Carol ~3500
God Emperor of Dune ~5000

The first two are most likely partially received shipments, so I'm going to assume they'll bump up at some point.

Does anyone know the precise contents of the Poe SE? I did a cursory check of the thread for the LE, but I didn't see a table of contents. If anyone can produce the ToC, it would be much appreciated.

I am pleasantly surprised that they used buckram for 1984. Shogun is very impressive looking.

Free Diaries are no more but we do get offered a free notebook with 3 or more books. I'll have somewhere to put all my logins to make them handy for the next burglar ;-)

I lucked out with my birthday code which happened to cover the release date.

>137 doucci95: Especially when their blurb for the book says:

"Epic, immersive and gloriously illustrated – the first-ever fully illustrated version of James Clavell’s Shōgun arrives in a lavish two-volume set. Featuring dynamic artwork by Chris Malbon...".

I am underwhelmed, and disappointed as this was to be my birthday book; now I'm swithering.

Can I do them under the Trades Description Act if the "gloriously illustrated" book isn't?

>157 njritchie: Is 'glorious' a quantity or a quality?

I've ordered Shogun, and will let you know upon reciept.

>154 CJDelDotto:
“Tales of Mystery and Imagination” is a standard anthology reproduced by numerous publishers since its first publication in 1908. Unless Folio has done something unusual, the contents will be:

"William Wilson"
"The Gold Bug"
"The Fall of the House of Usher"
"The Masque of the Red Death"
"The Cask of Amontillado"
"A Descent into the Maelström"
"The Pit and the Pendulum"
"The Purloined Letter"
"Metzengerstein"
"The Murders in the Rue Morgue"
"The Tell-Tale Heart"
"The Black Cat"

Source: Wikipedia, as well as my own copy.

>154 CJDelDotto: Here’s the table of contents for the Poe Limited Edition:

>161 MisterTrister: >160 jroger1: Thank you so much!

According to the Synopsis in the FS website, the SE edition of Poe includes The Raven

>162 CJDelDotto: Below is taken directly from the FS site SE page just for confirmation.

TALES OF MYSTERY AND IMAGINATION
Contents
Metzengerstein
MS Found in a Bottle
Berenice
Morella
King Pest
Ligeia
The Fall of the House of Usher
William Wilson
The Man of the Crowd
The Murders in the Rue Morgue
A Descent into the Maelström
The Oval Portrait
The Masque of the Red Death
The Pit and the Pendulum
The Mystery of Marie Rogêt
The Tell-Tale Heart
The Gold-Bug
The Black Cat
The Oblong Box
The Premature Burial

The Purloined Letter

The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar

The Cask of Amontillado

The Raven

I ordered Shogun and added Wizard of Earthsea just 'cause as well. I almost ordered Giovanni's Room and Klara and the Sun, but the kept to my budget.

>165 Cardboard_killer: nice job sticking to your budget (no sarcasm). Shogun, Pompeii and Haunting of Hill House as my Christmas present to myself.

>153 HonorWulf: Thank you! I only logged Shôgun then turned in; it is always interesting (I find) to fix the stock upon a collection's release.

>167 FitzJames: As well as their subsequent movement...! Looks like Dune has been the best seller, moving around 700 copies in 24 hours. The Templars is closing in on 500 copies and Shogun on 300 give or take. Most of the others are in the 100-250 range, with the exception of Shout and Wounded Knee that appear to be lagging a bit behind. Huge collection!

>168 HonorWulf:

Those numbers are really interesting.

>169 SF-72: Yep, they moved somewhere between 3250 and 3750 new books combined in the first 24 hours, not including whatever pre-existing stock was also purchased (assuming the counts are accurate).

New edition of 1984 looks fantastic

I saw some comments in the Facebook fan group that apparently the paper used for God Emperor of Dune and The Crossing is thinner than for preceding volumes… Could anyone try to check their copies to verify?

>172 drizzled:
I can only comment on the Dunes, but comparing the latest release (printed in Italy) with my fifth edition of the first volume (printed in Germany), I couldn’t detect any difference with my fingers.
A 100-page section, with no illustrations in either, measured around 7mm in both books.
If the latest volume is on thinner paper I’ve certainly not been able to tell.

Do we know what paper was used for Tales of Mystery & Imagination?

I already got a shipping notification. That's pleasantly fast.

>168 HonorWulf: I'm surprised a history book is outperforming a popular novel.

>164 assemblyman: I have this book in a nice leather bound Franklin library edition. Funny how favoured books remain tempting to buy even when you already have a perfect edition at home.

I like the new SE but not enough to buy it as I still prefer my earlier FS Harry Clarke illustrated edition. I see the Franklin Library edition also has the Harry Clarke illustrations.

Got my birthday voucher, but still haven’t placed my Fall/Winter order because I’m on the fence about Shogun and Endless Night…a few years ago I would have bought both, but space is becoming a serious issue. I used to love discovering new books through FS and having my first read with my new FS copy…the must haves from Winter are Hamnet and Dune, adding Binti based on research as I think I would like it and it looks like a unique choice.

Has anyone got the new 1984 in hand yet? I have a birthday code burning a hole in my pocket and may use it for that or Japanese Tales.

Received Shogun yesterday. The two volumes are really rather nice, but as expected hardly overflowing with illustrations. I'm entirely happy though. Both volumes are really quite heavy - very nice solid feel. Glad that they split it into two.

>110 FitzJames:

As titles have begun to make their way in hand, Poe's Tales of Mystery & Imagination has been confirmed as full-cloth irrespective of what the webpage for the title states as to quarter-bound w. paper sides.

>182 FitzJames: cool, and do you know what the paper is? I’m wondering if it’s the same text block (title page apart) as the LE, same way it was for Canticle for Leibowitz

OT: I landed in Brisbane today, and after collecting my case, I was subjected to inane xmas (not Christmas, The Holy Nativity) Santa Claus music on the escalators on route to the car park.
This early?

>184 LesMiserables: We are soon at the point where Christmas and Midsummer switch places.

>177 snottlebocket: And thus the FOMO problem we all have with books!

>183 BorisG: Took a while, sorry, but yes we do indeed now, not the same as the LE's Munken Pure:

"Typeset in Walbaum at The Folio Society. Printed on Arena Natural paper at L.E.G.O S.p.A (sic), Vicenza, Italy, and bound by them in cloth printed and blocked with a design by the artist."

Edit: We also knew it could not be the same text block as it necessarily includes The Raven which previously was the separate letterpress booklet/chapbook.

___
L.E.G.O. S.p.A., no idea why they dropped two periods.

Perhaps FS is moving away from Munken Pure in favour of Arena Natural Rough. The upcoming LE The Last Unicorn is printed on the same paper.

For those who have received their copy of Poe’s Tales, how does it compare?

I asked the FS and it’s Arena Natural Smooth in this case, rather than Rough. Closer fit to Munken Pure I guess.

I have one book on Arena White Rough, it’s a nice paper, tactile and a definite step up from, say, Abbey Wove (so it’s nice to have that sort of paper in an SE).

I’m still undecided about whether to downgrade to the SE or not. The LE does sell for a nice premium at the moment, and I prefer the SE binding all in all…

I had a birthday code to use, so picked up Poe, Canticle and The Lottery. I would have thrown in Hamnet too but the art style is not to my taste. I have some quibbles with the illustrations in Poe as well but I was swayed by the premium paper and the frontispiece, which is excellent.

>190 foliolibrary: Great choices! I think any SE derived from an LE is going to be a good buy since they take advantage of the extra artwork that was subsidized by the cost of the LE. I'm reading Canticle right now and it's a beauty!

Second that! And the canticle, as far as we know, is the same text block as the LE, so the only difference is the binding

>191 HonorWulf:
>192 BorisG:

FS gets a lot of stick but £70 for a cloth-bound book with a generous number of illustrations and 30 drop caps, printed on Abbey pure paper in two colours is, in my opinion, good value. This seems to be an unexpected consequence of the ever blurring lines between Limited and Standard Editions. And in cases such as Canticle and Poe, where the artwork chosen on the binding for the SE is arguably superior to that of the LE, you altogether get an edition that is more pleasing on the eye and equally enjoyable to hold at comparatively little expense.

For anybody who's interested, there's a signed-by-the-artist edition of God Emperor now available, 64 copies left.

There are also still some (13) copies of Dune Messiah. Was it the misadvertising that put people off there or do people value the word 'First' more than a signed bookplate?

^ Maybe a “rare find” badge next time? A purple color so it entices the RPG crowd.

Did anyone get a printed brochure for the Christmas collection?
In Australia, I have not received any printed leaflets or brochures from the FS for over a year.

I'm in Germany and haven't gotten one in several years. My impression was that they stopped producing them.

>196 wcarter: Yep got it! Apparently, there's two different covers this year, but mine is the one with all of the the different books against a pink/purple background.

>197 SF-72: They did Spring, Summer and Holiday catalogs this year, and Summer and Holiday catalogs last year, in addition to the Summer Magazine for both years.

>196 wcarter: I received printed summer catalog in Australia just over a week ago.

P.S. I also received newest Folio magazine with when my new Christie SE arrived a few days ago.

UK - Yes I did

I need a favour.
I did not receive a 2025 Christmas Catalogue, and to keep the information on the Folio Society Devotees wiki (see here.) up to date I need someone who did receive the brochure to:-
- scan brochure
- compress pictures
- email pictures to me
I can then update the wiki.
If you are able to help, please send me a PM.

PS: FSD member Affle has volunteered.
Many thanks.

>196 wcarter: Yup, mine arrived on Friday last, here in Ontario Canada.

>202 wcarter: I’ve neither a scanner nor the catalogue so glad Affle has been able to help. But have you ever asked folio to send you a PDF? They must have the digital files.

>199 HonorWulf:

Good to know, thank you. I wonder if they just don't bother with continental Europe anymore, or concentrate on English-speaking countries.

>202 wcarter: I've just emailed them on your behalf requesting this last one and all future catalogues and magazines to be sent direct to you. Fingers crossed. In the meantime I'm certain affle will look after you very well. He's as reliable as they come.

>202 wcarter:

I have received The Christmas Collection catalogue, if I can be of any help...

>192 BorisG: I'd meant to reply to this much earlier, but just as the SE Poe is not the same text block as the LE, nor is the Miller Jr.!

Title page lists '2025' as opp. to the LE's '2024' and there are some other alterations. Courtesy of a v. fine fellow over on the Facebook group, the differences are thus: "the illustrations appear in slightly different positions, and the SE paper is very slightly lighter in tone (but not in weight). Otherwise, there's no list of illustrations in the SE - but the same number (11). There's no ribbon in the SE. And of course, the edition details differ. But that's it, given investigations so far. Quality-wise, there's little difference internally. Plus, I have to say, I'm a big fan of the SE cover design."

>208 FitzJames: that’s great investigating, thanks! I’d say the value for money of the SE is superb (I couldn’t convince myself to buy the LE when it was still available).

I think I might downgrade the Poe too – the difference between the LE and SE prices could cover quite a few books I want :)

>209 BorisG:

The only disappointment with the SE Poe is that the illustrations appear to be printed on the same paper as the text. That’s my first experience of this with FS (that I’ve noticed)

I’ve recently received my order and found them all to be excellent productions.
I ordered: God Emperor, The Lottery, The Crossing and Klara. All very fine but the outstanding edition for me has to be Klara and the Sun. I suspect many will understand when I say it just feels ‘right’. The dimensions, weight, paper, cloth, endpapers, slipcase and illustrations - really, very beautiful. Oh, and the edge stain which is ‘pearled’!

Hamnet signed edition - 150 copies:

https://www.foliosociety.com/uk/hamnet-signed-edition

Over 50% sold in first 15 minutes...

EDIT: Less than 15 copies left after 30 minutes... and sold out in under 35 minutes.

The Shout! signed is selling slowly. Still 33 left after 6h30m. Most of these signed editions seem to sell out within 30 min.

>213 wcarter: I was a bit surprised to see they published this one, given that its claims have been largely rejected over time. Paul and George have said that they thought it was terrible. Maybe that’s why this one is moving a bit more slowly? I’m a Beatles fanatic and I have little interest in this one, signed or unsigned.

>213 wcarter: It highly depends on the author. Here's the previous 12 signings:

* Circe (Jun 26th) - 125 copies in ~2 hours, 50 mins
* Fantastic Four (Jun 30th) - 100 copies in ~16 hours
* Piranesi (Jul 21st) - 100 copies in ~7 mins
* The Rise and Reign of the Mammals (Aug 7th) - 50 copies in ~7 hours
* The Mirror and The Light (Aug 18th) - 50 copies in ~3 hours
* Klara and the Sun (Sep 15th) - 100 copies in ~25 mins
* Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow (Oct 20th) - 200 copies in ~3 weeks, 6 days
* The Fight (Oct 30th) - 100 copies in ~2 weeks, 3 days
* God Emperor of Dune (Nov 6th) - 100 copies in ~1 week, 5 days
* Hamnet (Jan 15th) - 150 copies in ~35 mins
* H is for Hawk (Jan 29th) - 100 copies in ~4 hours, 30 mins
* The Martian (Mar 2nd) - 100 copies in ~5 mins

The hotter ones are signed by popular authors (i.e. Susanna Clarke, Kazuo Ishiguro, Maggie O'Farrell, Andy Weir, Madeline Miller). Less popular authors and artist-signed books have lingered for days and weeks.

>214 Salaxalans: Yes - if the author only likes one quarter of the group's members, it's never going to be a well rounded account.

Possibly the worst of all Beatles biographies.

>216 red_guy: If they do Tune In, I’ll be first in line!

The Shout! Signed Edition sold out in 7 days on the nose.