[from news] New Liveship Traders special edition forthcoming

[Mellow the Minstrel]

New Liveship Traders special edition forthcoming

In 2016, Subterranean Press published what was back then the only complete US hardback edition of the Farseer trilogy. Because it was limited in numbers and had gorgeous new dust jacket art by John Howe, it quickly became a coveted collector's item and to this day remains one of the priciest and most challenging to obtain editions among Robin Hobb's works. In the recent years, there have been rumours about a continuation in the form of the Liveship Traders trilogy. This now seems to be very close to happening, as a brand new painting by John Howe for Ship of Magic was posted at a closed fb group. It was then reposted on Petrik Leo's youtube channel. (Timestamp 9:09). Since the cat seems to have been out of the bag for a good while already without being taken down, I'm sharing the art below. There are no confirmed publication details yet, but I'll be sure to post them as soon as they're publicised. ...


https://theplenty.net/news/2023/03/new-l...orthcoming

[Willem]

New Liveship Traders special edition forthcoming

In 2016, Subterranean Press published what was back then the only complete US hardback edition of the Farseer trilogy. Because it was limited in numbers and had gorgeous new dust jacket art by John Howe, it quickly became a coveted collector's item and to this day remains one of the priciest and most challenging to obtain editions among Robin Hobb's works. In the recent years, there have been rumours about a continuation in the form of the Liveship Traders trilogy. This now seems to be very close to happening, as a brand new painting by John Howe for Ship of Magic was posted at a closed fb group. It was then reposted on Petrik Leo's youtube channel. (Timestamp 9:09). Since the cat seems to have been out of the bag for a good while already without being taken down, I'm sharing the art below. There are no confirmed publication details yet, but I'll be sure to post them as soon as they're publicised. ...
     

https://theplenty.net/news/2023/03/new-l...orthcoming

Mervi what is your opinion on this hardback edition from SP versus the original UK hardbacks from HarperCollins? Since i have the original series (UK) i never bought the SP version but i am tempted by the announced version here.

[Mervi]

Hi Willem! It's nice to see you here. I almost didn't notice your posts among all the spam I've been deleting.

I think the cover art so far looks excellent and I'd be happy to add these to my collection just based on the quality of their previous Hobb products. However, we still haven't seen what the inner pages will look like, if there are any other illustrations, foreword etc so it's hard to say if they "add value" to a collection with previous hardbacks of LST.

I don't know if I'll be able to purchase these, since I don't own their Farseer editions personally. In any case I'm just super happy that there will be another LST edition out there (at some point...) just because all the special editions so far have been only of the first trilogy. It's time to move on!