Remember Peanuts: The Art of Charles M Schulz, that cool-looking hardcover that Chip Kidd put together? And then they came out with the paperback, and it had about 30 pages of additional material?
Well, now they’ve come out with a discount hardcover edition, and judging by the page count, it’s got the interiors of the paperback (along with a cover from none of the existing editions.) This is a discount book, the sort of thing that’s actually printed to go on the remainder book racks at your local store. I haven’t seen a copy to check that the printing and binding are up to snuff, but the price is pretty good – Amazon doesn’t have it, but you can get it through Barnes & Noble for $12.98. Plus its part of a buy-2-get-1-free sale. Now, unless you’re gearing up for gift-giving season, you probably don’t need three copies, so here are a few other items you might get, all at cheap prices (everything listed below is under $10 even before the get-one-free; most are hardcover):
- Peanuts Treasury
- Schulz and Peanuts, the problematic biography, in hardcover and on compact disc.
- Dark Tower: The Gunslinger Born – graphic novel based on Stephen King’s work.
- Calvin and Hobbes 10th Anniversary Book
- The Indispensible Calvin & Hobbes
- The Essential Calvin & Hobbes – Schulz foreword!
- Authoritative Calvin & Hobbes
- Calvin & Hobbes: There’s Treasure Everywhere
- Calvin & Hobbes: It’s a Magical World
- Calvin & Hobbes: The Days are Just Packed
- The Far Side Gallery
- Doonesbury: The War Years
