Mark Twain's A TRAMP ABROAD - Item 3718 ($252.00)

Easton has added:

Mark Twain's A TRAMP ABROAD The travel classic in the 1880 illustrated first edition format.

4 monthly installments of $63.00

https://www.eastonpress.com/all-categories/deluxe-limited-editions/mark-twains-a...

>2 supercell: Nothing curious about the limitation. Easton Press has now established that initial decision of sticking to very low limitations of 300-600 was wrong and corrected it. Even if EP never prints the full limitation, no harm done to them... I applaud the switch to slipcase and hope it is permanent for future editions of Twain and perhaps even Verne...!

My opinion not meaning much ... I understand their raising the limitation numbers ... but I would much prefer them sticking to 600 or 800 limits on these types of titles.

It's just weird having a book in a similar series (most of the clamshell twains have 600 to 800 limits)

Pudd'nhead wilson ... 300

Huck Finn ... 800

Prince and Pauper ... 400

Innocents abroad ... 600

Yankee/king Arthur's ... 300

Strogoff ... 400

Joan of Arc ... 800

Tom Sayer ... 800

So I agree with >2 supercell: ... 1200 seems a bit high.

Even EP's new Ayn Rand's THE FOUNTAINHEAD being a 'limited' of 1943 ... I get the significance ... but i think any 'limit' above 1200 or 1400 just seems like they shouldn't market as 'limited'. Just call it a DLE (and forgo the 'limited' marketing selling point).

Again ... I totally get this is only my personal silly opinion. And I know there are plenty of things that have limits of 5000 or 10,000. But for these titles that have mostly had limits of 300 - 800 ... increasing that in future titles seems like a giant money grab and disregarding the actual collectors/customers.

>3 EPsonNY: Another of my personal silly opinions .. I prefer the clamshell.

I think they are unique and different ... which makes if feel/look special on my shelves. And I have experienced way too many slipcases causing rub/wear when removing/replacing the books. I have never had a problem with the clamshell cases.

How amazing (and unrealistic) would it be if a publisher gave both options to choose from!

>5 supercell: agree completely. But in my experience I find FS slipcases are much more 'destructive'. In fact I have two FS titles that I can not even think to return to their slipcases. One took me about 8 minutes to actually work it free from it's slipcase grip (I almost had to use some kind of tool to draw it out).

>7 thisGuy33:
I throw out most FS slipcases as soon as I get them. I don’t display EP slipcases or clamshells either unless they are nicely pictorial, but at least I keep them in boxes in the attic.

>8 jroger1: Ha! I'm having an almost identical conversation in another EP thread about EP's Nickolas Nickleby release.

I personally like slipcases and clamshell cases ... but now that I'm think of losing the slipcases on the mismatching Nickleby and Oliver Twist in order to match my non-slipcase Copperfield ... I would never think about throwing the slipcases out.

I read so many post of people (like you) throwing out their slipcases as the first thing they do ... and I cringe ever time I read that ... I don't know why ... i just do.

lol

>4 thisGuy33: Limitations ought to be uniform, perhaps in the 800-1200 range. From a business perspective EP messed up originally setting limitations so low. 300-400 is simply too low for a reproduction of an original piece that would be challenging to reproduce in a different fashion. It is a book after all.

EP slicpases are a bit "flawed" to me as the book tray fully encloses the book. Most publishers leave the spine side open so book can be easily removed by being grabbed by the spine. No ribbon to pull, no worries about tight fit.

If ones enjoys an alcoholic beverage while reading, aiming for that slipcase may lead to accidental ding of two to the page block :D...

>10 EPsonNY: ahhh ... he alcoholic beverage party fouls ... i'd be lying if I insinuated I didn't know what you were referring to.

:)

And yes I agree ... I wouldn't be the least bit off-put by EP's decision of limiting this to 1200 copies if the others were all in the range of 900 - 1500 ... but being that the 'average' limit of the Twain DLE's is somewhere around '575-ish' ... 1200 just seems a bit odd and 'price-grabby'.

That said ... I do think it was a mistake early on for them to limit to 400/600 early on ... and the 300 limit is just crazy ... especially for such popular titles/authors.

And it's funny how different we all are on LT ... as we have these discussions about liking/not liking slipcases ... I'm now noticing two other threads (that have many posts) ... talking about how to make your own slipcases.

lol

The variety of life!!! I'm gonna so miss it when I'm gone.