Been wondering this as I pick up books here and there (I just had a lot of 23 arrive in the mail), but what's the biggest collection you've seen out there? The largest I've seen is the 500 in this video -
- but I often find myself wondering if anyone has anything close to a complete run.
What's the biggest Trek book collection out there?
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Indeed I do. In, at minimum, duplicate up until maybe the last 5 years. Because, since "Coda," I have very little interest.
These days, I'm trying to acquire international editions. I have almost everything from Canada, the UK, Japan... a huge chunk of the German Heyne output, all of the Williams, Terra Astra, and Goldmann, and a number of the Cross Cult editions. Some in Turkish, Czech, Hungarian, Spanish, and, I think, Bulgarian. That's where I'm having fun collecting these days. But I assume my ability to acquire international titles will come to an end any day now due to tariff shenanigans from the current regime.
My collection numbers upwards of 5000 books. The kid in the video is just getting started.
"It's not the size, it's how you use it."
Jokes aside, I do recommend being intentional in what and how you collect. Having a collection as big as Steve Sansweet (Star Wars items in his case) means little if you are not doing something with it or enjoying the pieces. For myself, I like to have access to the stories, so I get what interests me in ebook form. My few print copies of books are either not available in that format or have autographs.
Jokes aside, I do recommend being intentional in what and how you collect. Having a collection as big as Steve Sansweet (Star Wars items in his case) means little if you are not doing something with it or enjoying the pieces. For myself, I like to have access to the stories, so I get what interests me in ebook form. My few print copies of books are either not available in that format or have autographs.
Sorry, just curious, if you don't mind me asking. What's different with the books from Canada? Except for that one thing around Killing Time, I thought that the ones we got in Canada were the same as the ones you got in the US? They even have both prices printed on them.
I'd like to think I'm in the top 20, at least in number of books, I have a ton of duplicate titles in different formats. If we're including comics I'm way behind people like Rich Handley or Mark Martinez. I know Michael Howard is pretty chuffed about his collection.
Pocket Books printed an edition in Canada (with a festive maple leaf on the front and a festive Canadian price on the spine) starting with the TMP novelization in 1979 through the TFF novelization in 1989. After that, they started printing both prices on the US edition, and exporting to Canada. As far as I can determine, the Pocket Books Canada edition was always a first printing.
Oh, and the Canadian printing of Killing Time is the “unexpurgated” version. So, if you have a copy with the maple leaf on the cover, you have the “spicy” one.
Both Bantam and Ballantine/Del Rey did Canadian printings of some or all of their Star Trek titles in the late 60s and 70s.
Oh, and Signet’s Best of Trek mass market paperbacks also had Canadian editions.
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