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[webstar1000]

Anyone aware of secondary market sale prices for the various editions?

Yeah I have a few $’s Bri... base is running $500-600 range. 1/100 leather is $2000-2500 range and letter has to be over $6000 as I was offered $6500 for mine. It’s not for sale. I want the rights lol

Will be interesting to see what the first lettered sale goes for. Mines not for sale atm either.

I agree. I planned to sell it... I really did. ONCE IN HAND? Hell no. I am keeping that book. Its among the best I own. I can see this hitting the 10K mark easy.

[herbertwest]

Random idea : maybe a King collector would be interested in trading a lettered "Later" for a lettered "Stardust"

[webstar1000]

Random idea : maybe a King collector would be interested in trading a lettered "Later" for a lettered "Stardust"

Lol maybe if they were certifiably insane.

LOL I actually LOL'd out loud at this. Sorry Jeremy love ya buddy.

[Brian861]

Anyone aware of secondary market sale prices for the various editions?

Yeah I have a few $’s Bri... base is running $500-600 range. 1/100 leather is $2000-2500 range and letter has to be over $6000 as I was offered $6500 for mine. It’s not for sale. I want the rights lol

Can they not be sold without rights?

[webstar1000]

Anyone aware of secondary market sale prices for the various editions?

Yeah I have a few $’s Bri... base is running $500-600 range. 1/100 leather is $2000-2500 range and letter has to be over $6000 as I was offered $6500 for mine. It’s not for sale. I want the rights lol

Can they not be sold without rights?

Great question and Rich has not stated yet how... I hope it works just like suntup. That’s pretty tried, tested and proven I think. I just know he hinted on Facebook something else is coming so I’m not taking a chance. Lol I won’t sell them anyways... my goodness they are so beautiful. They really are.

[webstar1000]

I should say. This is my second favourite limited of all time. Misery letter is number one. No way that can be bested... but this is my second.

[Brian861]

Anyone aware of secondary market sale prices for the various editions?

Yeah I have a few $’s Bri... base is running $500-600 range. 1/100 leather is $2000-2500 range and letter has to be over $6000 as I was offered $6500 for mine. It’s not for sale. I want the rights lol

Can they not be sold without rights?

Great question and Rich has not stated yet how... I hope it works just like suntup. That’s pretty tried, tested and proven I think. I just know he hinted on Facebook something else is coming so I’m not taking a chance. Lol I won’t sell them anyways... my goodness they are so beautiful. They really are.

I'm of the plain Jane group so not an issue for me. Just curious. Arrived today but I have yet to open it.

[herbertwest]

Well, here is the first leather copy of Stardust I've seen for sale.
Usual seller... for a small 5k

[St. Troy]

Rebound LOTR:

https://mobile.twitter.com/lyrasbook...18500772122624

[webstar1000]

My buddy has a leather stardust for $3k with rights. Word is they will have them. I wonder if it Will sell!

[rolliepris]

My buddy has a leather stardust for $3k with rights. Word is they will have them. I wonder if it Will sell!

I'd be interested to get this. PM me at rolypris@hotmail.com

[shaq]

Have rights been confirmed with Lyra?

[webstar1000]

Have rights been confirmed with Lyra?

Basically. He indicated to me 1-100 will have the rights and lettered will. He will do 101-200 that will not have rights.


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[burgerhicks80]

Have rights been confirmed with Lyra?

Basically. He indicated to me 1-100 will have the rights and lettered will. He will do 101-200 that will not have rights.


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is that only for the lettered/ leather? Will the mustard/blue have rights?

[webstar1000]

Have rights been confirmed with Lyra?

Basically. He indicated to me 1-100 will have the rights and lettered will. He will do 101-200 that will not have rights.


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is that only for the lettered/ leather? Will the mustard/blue have rights?

No didn’t sound like it and it’s not set in stone but I’d be surprised if this wasn’t a sure thing.

[MikeDuke]

That's what I get for waiting. I mean it would have been great to get in on the ground floor but doing this and Suntup and other books would have been impossible. Congrats to those who did get them though. They do look fantastic.

[shaq]

Have rights been confirmed with Lyra?

Basically. He indicated to me 1-100 will have the rights and lettered will. He will do 101-200 that will not have rights.


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If that’s the case, that is a perfect blend. I imagine the current owners of >100 may be unhappy, but it really opens it up to new customers.


On a selfish note, pc owners....hopefully get an option.

[webstar1000]

Have rights been confirmed with Lyra?

Basically. He indicated to me 1-100 will have the rights and lettered will. He will do 101-200 that will not have rights.


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If that’s the case, that is a perfect blend. I imagine the current owners of >100 may be unhappy, but it really opens it up to new customers.


On a selfish note, pc owners....hopefully get an option.

Why would current owners be u happy? They have rights. Only 100 leathers now. Next time there will be 200.


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[shaq]

Have rights been confirmed with Lyra?

Basically. He indicated to me 1-100 will have the rights and lettered will. He will do 101-200 that will not have rights.


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If that’s the case, that is a perfect blend. I imagine the current owners of >100 may be unhappy, but it really opens it up to new customers.


On a selfish note, pc owners....hopefully get an option.

Why would current owners be u happy? They have rights. Only 100 leathers now. Next time there will be 200.


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Lol I am being an idiot. Of course. Even better

[Kingfan24]

Depending on how much cash we end up with the sale of our home I MAY have a lettered for sale. Big MAY.

[shaq]

Depending on how much cash we end up with the sale of our home I MAY have a lettered for sale. Big MAY.

Wow!

[frik]

Update from Rich Tong/Lyra's Books: interesting!

Well… I had hoped to approach the various announcements I have to make over the next couple of weeks in a slightly different order but, oh well! As some of you may be aware, another fine press has just announced that they will be publishing ‘The Picture of Dorian Gray’ by Oscar Wilde this year. It seems that both of us have been secretly beavering away on the same project for many months! So yes, the next book to be published by Lyra’s Books will also be ‘Dorian Gray’, although I expect our versions to be quite different from one another. I’m hoping for the pre-order to happen sometime shortly before Christmas, perhaps January if it is unavoidable. Whatever happens, we are printing in December and binding in January/February. There are two other books lined up for next year and it’s possible, given this mini crisis, that I might just let you know what they are a long time in advance! That worked quite well for ‘Stardust’ so perhaps it’s the way forward with future titles.

The other key piece of news is this – I am creating a new imprint for Lyra’s Books. I had planned to give all the information about this and how rights and everything will work before announcing the first title, but I’ll touch on it briefly here before posting more details about it early next week..

There will now be two imprints under the Lyra’s Books umbrella. ‘Lyra’s Press’ which started with ‘Stardust’, will publish modern titles. Then, ‘Lyra’s Classics’ will publish (as the name suggests) classic, public domain titles. There will be rights for the Numbered and Lettered editions of both imprints. I will explain in depth how that will work in the next couple of days but briefly: both imprints will have separate rights tracks, and Lettered and Leather owners of ‘Stardust’ will be given first refusal on the first ‘Classics’ book. In the next news post I’ll try and explain a little about my reasoning for all of this!

Anyway, a little bit about Dorian-

This will be the first book of the ‘Classics’ imprint. It will be limited to 250 Numbered and 26 Lettered copies ONLY. We will not be producing a Standard edition for any ‘Classics’ titles.

The book is going to be finished to the highest standard possible, utilising the skills of award-winning craftsmen and designers. I will hand bind all the books, Phil Abel at Hand and Eye will print all the pages on his Heidelberg cylinder press, and Marcelo Anciano of Arete Editions will be designing the interior of the book. This little team is what you should expect on all Lyra’s projects going forward and for the foreseeable future. The Lyra/Arete/Hand and Eye unit is feeling strong and we all share the same quality and design sensibilities. It all feels very harmonious.

We have commissioned painter Gregory Manchess to provide us with a series of concept oil portraits for ‘Dorian Gray’. Greg is widely respected in his field and has won countless awards including the Hamilton King Award, the highest honour given by the Society of Illustrators. Greg has been awarded many high-profile commissions, including work for the Coen Brothers, National Geographic Magazine, Time and a number of commissions for stamps for the US Postal Service. Greg will be signing both editions.

You can find some images of his previous work here on his website – www.manchess.com

The image you can see at the top of this post is an oil pastel portrait Greg did of Oscar Wilde over a decade ago. He was thrilled when we approached him about illustrating our edition and together we decided that the Wilde portrait would work well as our frontispiece.

A foreword will be provided by Oscar Wilde’s only grandchild, Merlin Holland. Merlin has written extensively on the subject of his grandfather and is an honorary patron of the Oscar Wilde Society. He will sign the Lettered edition only.

Over the course of the next month or two, I will release more details/photos/prices etc. I just wanted, at this point, to give you a little more information about what is happening. As I said, more detailed info about how rights will work will be coming in a few days.

Stay tuned!

Rich

[St. Troy]

That looks interesting (and Wilde is certainly an author worth a special edition). I wonder who the other publisher is (I'd suspected Folio Society - they just announced a new batch - but it doesn't appear to be them).

[frik]

I wonder who the other publisher is (I'd suspected Folio Society - they just announced a new batch - but it doesn't appear to be them).

Nope; that's Amaranthine Books.

sk

[webstar1000]

Some Of the best books I Own!


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