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<blockquote data-quote="Mr-shifter" data-source="post: 469552" data-attributes="member: 4949"><p>There are a couple of things. </p><p></p><p>Word across the community was the second edition was delayed and then effectively shelved because johns health had deteriorated considerably. I believe he was losing his eyesight, and understandably this caused the second edition to go on hiatus as this medical condition took priority. I don't think it's something that will ever get better from what I read so the second edition will probably never be. </p><p></p><p>Also, the first edition was a very slow sell. John ended up with a lot of leftover copies and was struggling to get rid of them all. The high prices seen today are as a result of new collectors and the secondary market. Horrible to think really, people are selling his book for hundreds of pounds of profit and yet the author almost couldn't give them away. </p><p></p><p>What has happened in the meantime though, is a number of more specialist books have been published by individual authors, focusing on their niche subjects. It does seem to be a very difficult thing though to get the book published. Stephane has published books on French collecting, javier has written a book on pbp and poch, and Daniel Segovia has written a book on top toys, that covers a little bit about other collectibles in south am rich like yupi, ledi and basa. </p><p></p><p>I know joe and Jc were well on the way with a trilogo book and there has been a bootleg book in the offing for a long time. Hopefully both of these projects will be completed.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Mr-shifter, post: 469552, member: 4949"] There are a couple of things. Word across the community was the second edition was delayed and then effectively shelved because johns health had deteriorated considerably. I believe he was losing his eyesight, and understandably this caused the second edition to go on hiatus as this medical condition took priority. I don’t think it’s something that will ever get better from what I read so the second edition will probably never be. Also, the first edition was a very slow sell. John ended up with a lot of leftover copies and was struggling to get rid of them all. The high prices seen today are as a result of new collectors and the secondary market. Horrible to think really, people are selling his book for hundreds of pounds of profit and yet the author almost couldn’t give them away. What has happened in the meantime though, is a number of more specialist books have been published by individual authors, focusing on their niche subjects. It does seem to be a very difficult thing though to get the book published. Stephane has published books on French collecting, javier has written a book on pbp and poch, and Daniel Segovia has written a book on top toys, that covers a little bit about other collectibles in south am rich like yupi, ledi and basa. I know joe and Jc were well on the way with a trilogo book and there has been a bootleg book in the offing for a long time. Hopefully both of these projects will be completed. [/QUOTE]
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