Hi everybody, I'm new here and I would like to start out by apologizing if this new thread is, in any way, redundant.... I did use the search functions to try and find out first if this was covered anywhere else but perhaps I am not coming up with the right search strings. At any rate, here goes....

I have read all the Repairman Jack novels up to, and including, Ground Zero, but up until this point I have borrowed all the books to read. I'd like to buy them all, but here is the problem I'm running into.

I typically buy all my books in hardcover or trade paperback. I don't like mass market paperbacks, the spines crack too easily and they hurt my hands to hold and read. So I thought, fine, I'll buy the books in hardcover.

Problem is, they're not all AVAILABLE in hardcover. Amazon has OLD editions of a couple of the early books in the series, but they do not have the same cover art and are before the writing revisions. Therefore they trigger my Obsessive Compulsive Disorder. I cannot have books that don't match!

Looks like I have a choice of either getting all the books in matching small paperbacks, or either having an OCD attack cause my books don't have matching art, OR having an OCD attack cause my books are in two different sizes, etc. Make that three, cause the new editions of the Adversary Cycle which have the matching cover design to the new Jack books are in TRADE paperback! acckkkk.....

Any idea if there will at any point in time be reissues of the early books in hardcover with the matching cover designs? or, just simply, HELP! What's a girl to do???

Thanks,
Gina :mad2:

Hi everybody, I'm new here and I would like to start out by apologizing if this new thread is, in any way, redundant.... I did use the search functions to try and find out first if this was covered anywhere else but perhaps I am not coming up with the right search strings. At any rate, here goes....

I have read all the Repairman Jack novels up to, and including, Ground Zero, but up until this point I have borrowed all the books to read. I'd like to buy them all, but here is the problem I'm running into.

I typically buy all my books in hardcover or trade paperback. I don't like mass market paperbacks, the spines crack too easily and they hurt my hands to hold and read. So I thought, fine, I'll buy the books in hardcover.

Problem is, they're not all AVAILABLE in hardcover. Amazon has OLD editions of a couple of the early books in the series, but they do not have the same cover art and are before the writing revisions. Therefore they trigger my Obsessive Compulsive Disorder. I cannot have books that don't match!

Looks like I have a choice of either getting all the books in matching small paperbacks, or either having an OCD attack cause my books don't have matching art, OR having an OCD attack cause my books are in two different sizes, etc. Make that three, cause the new editions of the Adversary Cycle which have the matching cover design to the new Jack books are in TRADE paperback! acckkkk.....

Any idea if there will at any point in time be reissues of the early books in hardcover with the matching cover designs? or, just simply, HELP! What's a girl to do???

Thanks,
Gina :mad2:

Hi, Gina--welcome to the board! I don't have a answer to your query, but I'm sure one or more of the great brains here will have suggestions.

Again, welcome!

Hi Gina,

I would strongly suggest using a used/rare book search engine called "Bookfinder"

Go to: http://www.bookfinder.com/

I use it all the time. You can plug in a variety of search criteria and it will show you what is out there for sale.

I am a fairly serious collector of books. In fact, I have about 99% of everything listed in FPW's bilbliography in 1st ed/1st print etc, original format etc; and I use "Bookfinder" all the time.

Hope this helps you.

Jerry


"I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion."