After stumbling across a seller listing some of the earliest books in this series, my collection now numbers 38 books, including the first 10 books in the series. These are came in at the upper limit of my budget for each book. This seller has listed three additional books, but they’re beyond my upper limit, so I’m holding off on those books. Initially, I only saw one book listed, but they enclosed a note about some others also available. I then bought a few more. Their second note listed one that I did not see, so I bought this one as well.
There are still 16 books (to date) in this series that I currently do not own, and from my research I’d consider buying only four or five more. Some are insanely hard to find, but then I thought the same about those first books in the series as well.
As I’m a haphazard collector, I know I’ll probably never get them all. At least three of the books are impossible to find, or outrageously expensive. Recently, I saw a listing of the Neil Gaiman book at $750. Since, after a few weeks, this listing no longer appeared, my assumption is that someone was willing to pay that amount. I’m not.
Same for the Mallerman and Ligotti books; at the listed prices maybe someone will buy them, but not me. Then again, I’ve see the Massie book listed for $200, and I got it at a fraction of the price, so sometimes you get lucky.
As I collect them, slowly start to read them. Many authors are new to me, and I guess that’s part of the excitement.
If there’s a part 5 to this series of posts about the Little Books series, it might cover those remaining four or five within my budget. I don’t foresee much more after that, but if by chance I get them all, I know I have to post review of each of them, which would mean a productive series of posts. It would also mean some re-reads, and possibly first time reads. I do wonder, though, how long Borderlands Press will continue with this series.
