ULTRA-RARE CUSSLER COLLECTIBLE

Recently I received an ARC (Advance Reading Copy) of THE TOMBS, the latest book in the Fargo series written by new co-writer, Thomas Perry. Unlike the standard ARCs of Clive’s books with a full-color cover that will eventually grace the hardcover edition, this one had a plain white cover. In addition, its size is not quite the same as the standard one. Unsure exactly what it was, I soon learned that this plain cover ARC was done in a very limited run for the trade publications only. Evidently, the regular ones were held up for some cover art tweaking. And get this, only eight of these plain white cover ones were made. So with only eight in existence, that pretty much makes it about the rarest edition in my collection. While I have a few things in which only a handful may exist now, none of them began with such a low number. At this stage of the game I didn’t think there would be that much rare stuff coming out. It’s nice to see that those kinds of things are still around.