Post Your Latest Purchase

[Martin]

I have been trying to get back into eating healthy food rather than whatever I can get delivered. Cooking with fresh ingredients while cooking for one has led to throwing out a lot of fresh produce as I just can't use it fast enough. i tried buying a live live Basil plant and planting it in a pot in my kitchen. It died quicker than a bag of basil would have lasted in my fridge. So I decided to buy a self watering raised bed garden. Assembled it last week and planted two varieties of local strawberries, Dill , Parsley and two Basil plants. It also comes with a greenhouse cover which will stay in place while I still have freezing nights. The cover also protected the plants from the heavy rains and hail we had the day after I set it up. Filled it with water and did not even look at it again until today. Everything looks like it did great with the exception of the Basil, which did not fair well but is still alive. The local nursery had tomato plants in so I added a cherry tomato plant today. The lady at the nursery was sure to warn me that it needed frost protection. When I explained what I had she said it should work perfect for this plant. I have room for one more plant and it will be either Bell Pepper or Anaheim Peppers. When the frost threat passes the vinyl topper will be replaced by an insect cover. That should protect the plant from pests and rain. Looking forward to just snipping off herbs as needed.
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[Sock Monkey]

I just picked up a book that I’ve been looking for for a long time. I’m super excited to get it in hand. It should arrive this week and I’ll post pics when it does.

[RonClinton]

The bottom board stuck out farther from the page block than the front board, about twice as much, making the spine a bit off-center, and the rear endpaper was misglued to the rear board about 1.5” high.

Very disappointing for my first direct order from Folio. I have another Folio book and it’s fine, but you sure hope for better when you order direct. I will say their customer service to remedy the situation was top-notch. Hopefully the replacement will be okay.

My replacement arrived today -- the original one took a month to arrive, but the replacement was here in a week w/ the int'l expedited shipping they used -- and it looks perfect.

If anyone is interested in the original one, I have it listed on eBay (with defects disclosed both in text and pics). If you're from here and you buy it, let me know and I'll throw in a free tpb copy for reading, so you can keep the deluxe Folio HC pristine and free of unsightly fingerprints.

[RonClinton]

Yikes. Those sound like very obvious errors. Glad they are correcting their error.

This was my my first direct purchase from them as well. I will probably be a repeat customer however I would like the prices to be a little lower.

Glad your copy was a good one...(my) problems aside, it’s a beautiful volume.

[Ben Staad]

Yikes. Those sound like very obvious errors. Glad they are correcting their error.

This was my my first direct purchase from them as well. I will probably be a repeat customer however I would like the prices to be a little lower.

The bottom board stuck out farther from the page block than the front board, about twice as much, making the spine a bit off-center, and the rear endpaper was misglued to the rear board about 1.5” high.

Very disappointing for my first direct order from Folio. I have another Folio book and it’s fine, but you sure hope for better when you order direct. I will say their customer service to remedy the situation was top-notch. Hopefully the replacement will be okay.

[RonClinton]

Do you mind stating what issue's you saw? I hadn't noted anything obvious.

The bottom board stuck out farther from the page block than the front board, about twice as much, making the spine a bit off-center, and the rear endpaper was misglued to the rear board about 1.5” high.

Very disappointing for my first direct order from Folio. I have another Folio book and it’s fine, but you sure hope for better when you order direct. I will say their customer service to remedy the situation was top-notch. Hopefully the replacement will be okay.

[Ben Staad]

Do you mind stating what issue's you saw? I hadn't noted anything obvious.

I ordered it as well, sometime after my earlier post, and it arrived a week or so ago. There were some production issues with it, though, so had to request a replacement. That replacement is due to arrive tomorrow (Folio expedited the shipping). Look for the bad copy on eBay shortly.

I did feature pics of it on Twitter a few days ago:

https://twitter.com/ron_clinton/stat...991876103?s=21

[RonClinton]

Ordered this and it arrived today. Nice looking book and happy to have added it to my collection. Thanks for the nudge on it.

I ordered it as well, sometime after my earlier post, and it arrived a week or so ago. There were some production issues with it, though, so had to request a replacement. That replacement is due to arrive tomorrow (Folio expedited the shipping). Look for the bad copy on eBay shortly.

I did feature pics of it on Twitter a few days ago:

https://twitter.com/ron_clinton/stat...991876103?s=21

[Ben Staad]

Ordered this and it arrived today. Nice looking book and happy to have added it to my collection. Thanks for the nudge on it.

Folio’s edition of Charles Portis’ TRUE GRIT is the one I keep going back to...have come close to pulling the trigger on it at least a dozen times, and for some reason continue to hold off. Reportedly THE modern Great American Novel, I’ve never read it, though have seen the movie. But the book with its unreliable narrator is supposed to be far richer, nuanced, and more complex than the film, obviously, and deals with themes of coming-of-age, revenge, growing old and obsolescence, etc.…really need to get my hands on this one.

If anyone’s interested in seeing pics of this attractive volume:

https://www.foliosociety.com/usa/true-grit.html

[Dave1442397]

The first shipment of books from the Taschen sale arrived today. They were sold with warnings that they could have shelf wear from being displayed, etc, but these were all shrink wrapped and brand new. I would definitely buy their sale books again.

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[RonClinton]

^^^^ Looks like a signed ARC to me. Medium Rare Books was around for a short while, then — as I recall — shut down, leaving behind some grumblings (about matters I no longer recall).

[Ben Staad]

Not really sure what I bought however it intrigued me. Probably post this over on the KPB thread and ask him, assuming he still checks in, what this item was all about.

[RonClinton]

Too bad you couldn't get a set when SubPress did a 50% off sale - it was one of the books available, and $90 for that trilogy would have been an AMAZING deal!

I actually got mine shortly before that half-off sale, from an offer I made to a seller on eBay. I believe I spent $120, so I still got a very good deal…just not as sweet as the one that popped up a couple months later. But like you said, they went pretty fast, so chances are I wouldn’t had a shot at that one anyhow.

[TacomaDiver]

Too bad you couldn't get a set when SubPress did a 50% off sale - it was one of the books available, and $90 for that trilogy would have been an AMAZING deal! Also pretty sure they disappeared fairly quickly after the sale went live.

Very nice! I passed on the Sub Press Themis Files set - can't buy everything!

I don't know - but Ron probably has a good safe guess about it.

Not familiar with the stories but the presentation is beautiful. Is there any story on why they reduced the print run after the first book?

I know I haven't read the Corbett book from CD either, so you have good company there. All of my TBR pile is basically my shelves. My wife and I did at one time go through all of our books and flag them with this sticky notes I got from a conference to help identify which ones we haven't read, but between two moves, running out of space, and the sticky notes falling off, I have no idea anymore, so everything goes on the shelves.

R.e. the reduction, my guess is lack of interest in the UK to sustain 750 copies, especially if these UK editions appeared after the Sub Press set.

I have the Sub Press set, but have yet to read them. Typically I'll read my limiteds shortly after receiving them -- they don't linger long in my TBR pile as I tend to put a priority on them. These ones, however, I for some reason shelved them before I read them, thinking I'll just pull them off the shelf at some point and read them. But when my usual process of "TBR --> read --> shelve" is broken, I've found they don't seem to get read. Same thing happened with the last four Matthew Corbett books.

I do plan to read all of them soon, though, and have certainly learned my lesson about premature shelving.

[RonClinton]

R.e. the reduction, my guess is lack of interest in the UK to sustain 750 copies, especially if these UK editions appeared after the Sub Press set.

I have the Sub Press set, but have yet to read them. Typically I'll read my limiteds shortly after receiving them -- they don't linger long in my TBR pile as I tend to put a priority on them. These ones, however, I for some reason shelved them before I read them, thinking I'll just pull them off the shelf at some point and read them. But when my usual process of "TBR --> read --> shelve" is broken, I've found they don't seem to get read. Same thing happened with the last four Matthew Corbett books.

I do plan to read all of them soon, though, and have certainly learned my lesson about premature shelving.