Issue Price: $79.95
Comments: Bound in cloth blocked with a design by the artist. Set in Miller with Kingthings Trypewriter display. 536 pages. Black & white illustrated title-page spread; 11 colour illustrations. Printed endpapers. 10" x 6¾"
Note: Many arrived with damaged slipcases which The Folio Society replaced for free without requiring a return of the original book purchased. There have been several reports of replacement copies arriving damaged as well.
You don't know my kind.....You don't my mind.....Dark necessities are part of my design.....
Thanks for the info Brian. Do you have any of the following:
ISBN
Artist
Limitation qty
"A real limited edition, far from being an expensive autograph stapled to a novel, is a treasure. And like all treasures do, it transforms the responsible owner into a caretaker, and being a caretaker of something as fragile and easily destroyed as ideas and images is not a bad thing but a good one...and so is the re-evaluation of what books are and what they do that necessarily follows." - Stephen King
You're most welcome. Waiting to hear back from Edward over there regarding those three questions.Originally Posted by stroppygoblin
You don't know my kind.....You don't my mind.....Dark necessities are part of my design.....
The artist for both exterior/interior is Edward Kinsella.
As far as the ISBN and limitation, here's a copy of the email that I received from Edward:
Dear Brian
Apart from a sprinkling of exceptions, Folio books aren't available to purchase online or in in shops (apart from through us, of course!) As such, we are exempt from having to give our books ISBN or ISSN numbers. Winningly, this means that we don't have to give the books ugly barcodes, that might spoil the look of some of our bindings, either.
As to 'The Shining's' print run, this would have been around the 2,500 mark. Publishing isn't quite an exact science, and so I wouldn't be able to give you a more specific number than that. I would also not describe this figure as a Limitation number as we may well print more pending its popularity.
I hope that this email is of some assistance, but should you have any other questions, please don't hesitate to ask.
Kind regards
Edward Cornthwaite
Membership Secretary
The Folio Society
You don't know my kind.....You don't my mind.....Dark necessities are part of my design.....
Thanks Brian! I have updated the article with the information.
Most welcome, Josh and thank you!
You don't know my kind.....You don't my mind.....Dark necessities are part of my design.....
Would the contest be worth mentioning on the main article?
Tomas' email and response to the Folio Society can be found here post #53
And so far we only know of one, which is currently in Lilja's hands.
"That which you think, becomes your world" Matheson
I have added to the comments and placed the email content in a spoiler to conserve space.
"A real limited edition, far from being an expensive autograph stapled to a novel, is a treasure. And like all treasures do, it transforms the responsible owner into a caretaker, and being a caretaker of something as fragile and easily destroyed as ideas and images is not a bad thing but a good one...and so is the re-evaluation of what books are and what they do that necessarily follows." - Stephen King
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