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Post by mizbizsav on Dec 12, 2017 20:58:16 GMT -5
The Bad Beginning: Rare Edition that was first released in 2003 and been out-of-print is getting new life at Barnes & Noble! I was shocked to find this out yesterday - fortunately, it wasn't much of a wait - the book was officially released today, December 12. The rare edition is famed for having those cryptic Lemony Snicket notes (though when is anything NOT cryptic?) that kept us wondering about peepholes in Olaf's house and those mysterious Finnish pirates. This edition includes those notes and it doesn't say much more in the description. I'm assuming it has the exclusive art like the original did (if I'm not mistake the original had that). This listing does tout that it's the "Barnes & Noble Exclusive Edition" so maybe it has something else? That's unsure. It also says it is, "For a limited time". Those could just be hype words that basically mean it's a reissue of the 2003 one - probably is. Anyway, enough rambling! Below is the only stock image from the site. And here's a link to where you can buy it! www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-bad-beginning-snicket-lemony/1127433037?ean=9780062847232#/
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Post by Dante on Dec 13, 2017 3:14:48 GMT -5
Very interesting! The Rare Edition is an odd product which makes considerably less sense in retrospect, but it's a great choice for a reprint. The dark blue cover of the box is an alteration; I can see they're going for the original TBB spine colour, but the original Rare Edition had a box the same colour as the default book background. The actual cover art itself, the eye and thorn patterns, are the same. Impossible to tell if there's a Marvelous Marriage portrait in there, and the blurb doesn't list it, but it looks like everything else is present and correct. Definitely worth taking a look at if you don't have a copy already, though there are other places where the Author's Notes are reproduced - in 667's DDocuments, for instance, and in the recent Egmont Modern Classics edition of TBB.
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Post by A comet crashing into Earth on Dec 13, 2017 5:05:08 GMT -5
Curious how this is just released without any kind of prior announcement. I'd also have thought they might've wanted to release something like that immediately after a season of the show was released. Not having the original Rare Edition, I'd like to leap upon this opportunity, though. Do you think it's safe to wait until January to order? I have no clue how long "A Limited Time" normally means.
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Post by Hermes on Dec 13, 2017 10:17:01 GMT -5
I'm guessing the release of the Egmont Modern Classic is the stimulus for this: since it has the notes, it's effectively a new printing of the BBRE, although it lacks the Marvellous Marriage image. So someone must have felt that Americans deserved to have their own version of it.
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Post by spookyghost on Dec 14, 2017 11:06:23 GMT -5
Heh. I finally bought a TBB Rare Edition from an amazon seller for like $20 a month and a half ago, deciding after 14 years I might as well really complete my collection.
Ordered this too, arriving Monday. In for a penny, in for a pound.
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Post by mizbizsav on Dec 14, 2017 19:06:30 GMT -5
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Post by Dante on Dec 15, 2017 4:21:15 GMT -5
A strange omission. I can't imagine it's a rights issue, but was it really that much more complicated to assemble and include the portrait if they were already doing the box? For those who've never owned the BBRE, it's worth noting that the portrait is actually made up of multiple card elements, with the frame having a fold-out prop and the picture being removable from the frame.
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Post by B. on Dec 15, 2017 17:39:59 GMT -5
Dante do a guide to all the editions of the bad beginning ever printed please
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Post by Dante on Dec 16, 2017 4:22:31 GMT -5
Impossible. They never actually released The Bad Beginning Private Library Edition, so I can't write an accurate description of what it was meant to be.
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Post by cwm on Dec 24, 2017 13:16:25 GMT -5
How many are there? The original, the Rare Edition, the Rare Edition re-print and various tie-in editions?
Have you ever tried asking DH what the Private Library Edition was meant to be, out of interest?
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Post by Dante on Dec 24, 2017 14:38:18 GMT -5
The joke is that I have asked someone (not Mr. Handler himself; actually, he probably wouldn't have been involved much) what it was meant to be, and the answer was just "super-fancy". I guess it was kind of redundant, especially to the leather-bound Egmont edition that was something ridiculous like £70.
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