>Hi James,>>Any chance of finding out when I will get my purchase?We're still waiting to receive the signed certificates back from Jo Walton in Canada -- we've done a special certificate for your defective copy, but the signatures on it will work as its stamp of authenticity (because any mug can run a bogus certificate off a laser-printer, right?). There was a delay because it's taken Jo a while to find a permanent address in Canada, so we couldn't send the blank certificates to her for a while. But it's all happening now.-- James Wallis [email protected]Director, Hogshead Publishing Ltd http://www.hogshead.demon.co.uk18-20 Bromell's Road, London SW4 0BG UK T-0207 207 5490 F-0207 207 5491
Hi,Well, as I wrote last week, all the copies of the limited-edition Realms of Sorcey books are now en route, or have arrived. Many, many thanks for bearing with us as long as you have done.There have been problems and delays with the Customs authorities in some countries, particularly for many of the US and some of the Scandinavian shipments. We are dealing with each incident as soon as we find out about it, and only a few books are still held up. If you don't have your copy yet, it should be very soon.If FedEx contact you about arranging a delivery please get back to them as soon as possible. FedEx only holds onto undelivered packages for five working days, and if they have any problems getting in touch with you to deliver it, they may just send the book right back to us. We really don't want to box them up and ship them out again if possible.There's a second problem.Three people who have received their leatherbound RoSes have alerted us to a problem with the interior pages. One of the blocks of 16 pages has been missed out (pages 96 to 112), and a later one has been included twice (pages 113 to 128). We don't yet know how many copies are affected, but we think it's only a small percentage of the total. So, please check your copy carefully when you receive it, and if it is defective then get in touch with us right away. If you have received an imperfect copy, please accept our sincere apologies. As you can probably imagine, we're tearing our hair out -- those of us who have hair -- over this.We will replace all defective copies reported to us, at no charge to you. We're still working out exactly what we need to do: we have a few spare leatherbound RoSes here, which we created to replace any copies lost or damaged in transit, but we don't yet know if there will be enough. We may have to go back to the binder. Replacement copies of the books will contain new certificates signed by Ken and Jo Walton, with the same limited-edition number as your defective copy. All defective copies will be destroyed.Once we learn exactly how many copies are defective then we will know whether we have enough spares or if we need to bind more, and we will send out a status report and plan of action to everyone who is affected.(If you have a defective copy and want to hang onto it, or you'd like to negotiate to buy one -- go for it. Some book collectors regard rare, imperfect copies as more valuable than perfect ones. However, I suspect most people will want a readable, usable copy of the book.)What's really annoying for us is that this problem only seems to have affected the leatherbound edition. Despite the fact that we're using the same pages from the same print-run as the softback and hardback editions, we've not had a single report of mis-bound copies of them.Inevitably, it's only the expensive ones.If you have received your limited-edition, and it's all okay, then we'd really like to hear your opinions of it. Let us know what's right and what's wrong, so we can improve our service next time.Once again, our sincere apologies. -- Ian Sturrock, Sales & Marketing Manager [email protected]Hogshead Publishing Ltd http://www.hogshead.demon.co.uk18-20 Bromell's Road, London SW4 0BG UK T-(0)207 207 5490 F-(0)207 207 5491
Dear Mark,>I have just ordered, via the web based secure order form, one of each >of the varieties of leather bound editions, one of each colour. I would >like 3 consecutively numbered volumes preferably 100, 101, 102. If this >is not possible I would prefer 3 consecutive numbers as early in the >numbering set as possible.I've assigned you numbers 2,3, and 4; hope that's acceptable!RoS is going to the printer on Monday. Printing should take about four weeks; add a week to ship the 100 copies to the UK, and we should start to get them back from the book-binder another couple of weeks after that. So I'm anticipating being able to start sending books out around the end of next month.-- Ian Sturrock, Sales & Marketing Manager [email protected]Hogshead Publishing Ltd http://www.hogshead.demon.co.uk18-20 Bromell's Road, London SW4 0BG UK T-(0)207 207 5490 F-(0)207 207 5491
Jammy wrote in price check.. limited rpg stuff:'The Numbered Mutant'Huge thanks to TheDaemon for providing these fascinating posts concerning Realms of Sorcery Limited Edition history, particularly concerning the infamous 'mutation' (misprinting) issue.Daemon, I think perhaps there is one other type of Realms of Sorcery Limited Edition you don't possess, beyond the 9/11 one ... and it's one-of-a-kind, as identified in one of your earlier posts ... it's The Numbered Mutant.Filling in the last piece of the jigsaw: like you, back in 2001 I ordered and received one red (no. 12), one flesh (no. 31) and one black (no. 84) (Unlike you I didn't have the presence of mind to ask for a sequence ...)All three duly arrived. I started reading my flesh coloured one. Then almost immediately came Hogshead's misprint recall. I checked all three of mine and - horrors - the Mark of Chaos was found in one.Of course I thought about returning it but for many different reasons I decided to keep it.All the returned copies were, as you say, destroyed. I am sure that, as you also confirm, this is the only misprinted copy of the numbered 100 left in the world. Before I read your posts on this thread, years ago I had heard from a friend who had spoken to a Hogshead employee that there was only ever one still out there.I still have it to this day.For those aficionados who are interested in all this, I guess just one question remains: 'Which one was it?'Well, notwithstanding the speculation about all misprints being flesh coloured, the one that escaped the fires wasn't.It's black, no. 84.One of a kind now - a curious yet unique piece of WFRP and Hogshead history:'The Numbered Mutant.'I hope that this is of interest and thanks again to Daemon for the posts!