If you're both in Canada, maybe you and Avro can work out a deal.
Costume book from Block & Erdmann
- Thread starter Therin of Andor
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As some "Star Wars" friends pointed out, it is way cheaper that the SW costume book that came out a few years ago.
I know I said I wouldn't buy this at $40.00 and would wait for the bargain bin, but I gave in because I trust Therin's judgement and it came today from Amazon and I have to say it is a really beautiful book. If more of the Trek non-fiction books were done this well I would buy anything published. Lately though the titles we have seen I wouldn't give $5.00 for but this book is truly worth the $32.00 I spent for it. Love love love it!
Kevin
Kevin
Personally, I'm inclined to wait for it to be remaindered, or issued in paperback, or for a used copy to surface at an affordable price (currently, Alibris lists used copies for MORE than new ones!). $40? Ye vish!
Sadly, waiting for it to be remaindered means that no royalties are earned by the authors, and the next few factual Trek books will be harder to get accepted and published.
Worth every cent! Australians pay at least double that (used to be triple!), once airfreight or postage is factored in. Ours are $AU 59 but our dollar is only about US 70c at the moment.
How many movies can you go to for $40? Two? Three? How many DVDs could you buy for $40? One? Two?
A typical new-release single-disk DVD in Australia is $15, about the same as a movie ticket, while the same title in Blu-Ray is about $25. DVD prices have come down as Blu-Rays gain in popularity.
Well, last night, I found an unsealed copy at the local B&N, and thumbed through it. Looks interesting enough that I went ahead and ordered it at the online price (but used a 20%-off coupon that would have otherwise expired unused).
Given the full-page full-color picture of Leslie Parrish in that pink number from Who Mourns for Adonais, it's a shame the book is too heavy to, ahem, "hold up with one hand" for any length of time.
Galaxy in Sydney had heaps of these, and I was worried they'd overstocked. But it seems that people are nabbing copies as gifts for "the Trek fan who has everything". (He'll probably get several.)
I was hoping for more on the First Contact uniforms. DS9 got more coverage than expected and Seven of Nine's catsuit gets little mention, thankfully.
Sorry to revive this old-ish thread.
I got a gift card for Christmas that would allow me to get this, as long as I ordered it online, rather than purchasing in-store. However, if I just held on to the card, it would reduce the cost of the upcoming new version of the Encyclopedia by a good chunk, and I know I really want that one. (Plus in that case, I could still theoretically get the Costumes book once it gets bargain-binned.)
So for those of you who have read it... is it worth owning (and paying current prices for)? I'm really tempted to just hang on to the card, and hope I can grab the Costumes book at a significant discount later. But if a bunch of you jump in and say, "oh no, you really must own this now!", then I could possibly be persuaded.
(I searched the forum, but didn't see a review thread for this one.)
Thanks!
I got a gift card for Christmas that would allow me to get this, as long as I ordered it online, rather than purchasing in-store. However, if I just held on to the card, it would reduce the cost of the upcoming new version of the Encyclopedia by a good chunk, and I know I really want that one. (Plus in that case, I could still theoretically get the Costumes book once it gets bargain-binned.)
So for those of you who have read it... is it worth owning (and paying current prices for)? I'm really tempted to just hang on to the card, and hope I can grab the Costumes book at a significant discount later. But if a bunch of you jump in and say, "oh no, you really must own this now!", then I could possibly be persuaded.
(I searched the forum, but didn't see a review thread for this one.)
Thanks!
This one has literally been one of our 'coffee table books' for the past several months (except for a brief three week Xmas break). It is the one our friends and guests pick up the most, the ones our friends and guests comment on the most, and in all those times there has not been a single instance of anyone dissing, making fun of, or being negative of any of it. It's all been positive, with lots of 'oh, I remember this', which is something I am very surprised and happy about.
You don't even necessarily need them to order a copy themselves; Interlibrary Loan is a wonderful thing.
Literally any library in the United States and some outside the country. You just need to talk to the librarians and give them enough information to uniquely identify the book; either ISBN or title+author should be enough. Then they put in a search in some library database (probably Worldcat) and check what libraries have a free copy. Once they find one, they request it from that library, and it's shipped over to your library. If need be they can even try to get a specific edition for you.
All the branches of one city's library system are technically the same library, so you can always request copies from any branch and have them delivered to whatever branch you want for pickup. Interlibrary loan is the same thing between different cities' library systems. And while Idran's right that you can request it from the librarians in person, you can also probably do it through your library's online catalog.
