Are The Chronicles and/or Second Chronicles of Thomas Covenant still in print? A friend at work loaned me Lord Foul's Bane and The Illearth War, but he doesn't have the third book or any of the Second Chronicles.
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If New Zealand is anything to go by then you won't be getting any frsh copies in the bookstoe. I got all mine from a second hand bookstore - actually that's where I pretty much get all my books from - unless I get them as a gift.
If you hunt around amazon, you'll be able to buy them new or used - or even try ebay I suppose.
If you hunt around amazon, you'll be able to buy them new or used - or even try ebay I suppose.
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Pennyworth, the books are still in print. Perhaps the bookstores just need to refresh their stock. I have noticed all retail stores that I have visited do not carry many copies on the floor. The most at a time I will see perhaps two copies of any given book while occassionally some are missing altogether. Del Rey would be committing a great evil if the TC books went out-of-print even for a short period. But it can happen. Sadly.Lord Mhoram wrote:I have them, too. I got them at Barnes and Noble, but I hadda mail-order TPTP because it wasnt there. WARNING- mine fell apart when I read them. Really ticked me off...
Mhoram, coincidently I purchased a brand new copy of TOT and began to read with my usual perusal when pages began to fall out eventually leading to whole chapters. I replaced it immediately with another copy that had stronger binding (even tugged very gently on a couple pages and they held very tight). I have encountered this dilemna of weak binding before with other publishers too. It happens!
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I am thinking of writing or informing Del Rey about the frequent weakly bound pages in their SRD books! I usually open my paperbacks wide for greater reading enjoyment and that is when TOT's pages started sloughing off. TC is one of their top fantasy sellers and you would think they would had already resolved this.
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Del Rey is notorious for the poor quality of their bindings. A friend of mine used to read just about any fantasy book she could get her hands on. The first thing that made her pickier -- this would be in the early eighties -- was that all her Del Rey books kept falling apart on her before she'd even finished reading them once. My own copies of the First Chronicles fell apart from hard use within months after I got them, and I had to find the HRW hardcovers.
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That's pretty interesting, since I'm sitting here next to my paperback Lord Foul's Bane from 1979 and still has all of its pages. I have the original three from when I was a youngster -- the old color coded covers from who had the Staff of Law -- reread a million times and all bent up in the corners and creased on the spine, but with the pages still all intact. BUT all of my WOT paperback books are falling apart after one reading. I finallly had to start buying the WOT books in hardcover because my paperback copies had all fallen apart. 
Incidentally, the Science Fiction Book Club is offering the first three TC books in a big omnibus hardcover edition. I saw it in a recent flier from them. Don't know if someone can get it without joining the Club, but my guess would be probably not.
Incidentally, the Science Fiction Book Club is offering the first three TC books in a big omnibus hardcover edition. I saw it in a recent flier from them. Don't know if someone can get it without joining the Club, but my guess would be probably not.Love as thou wilt.
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Amazon.com has them, and I have had problems with my paperbacks falling apart, too. I really wish they would re-issue all the books in hardback form. I want to collect hardbacks and can't find them unless they are used. If anyone wants to start a petition to get the publisher to re-issue in hardback, I'll join in. As of now, I am going to have to re-purchase the paperbacks so I can keep reading them. I read the whole set every year.
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One must have strength to judge the weakness of others. I am not so mighty. Lord Mhoram in TIW