Great news! Eagerly waiting for the presses to roll.

That's wonderful news. Can't wait to see the finished book.

Fantastic! Clearly, apart from The Upstairs Copy and The Downstairs Copy, my family needs A Copy Nobody Is Allowed To Read Because It's So Pretty. :)

I take it the trade edition is perfect-bound as opposed to sewn? Hmmmm... I'm am going to have to rake up some funds for the mid-priced edition.

I dearly wish that I could afford the most expensive edition-- if my memory serves, you have a very elegant hand. What a wonderful idea! (btw, did you formally study calligraphy at some point, or did you just wing it on your own?)

I am so glad to hear this news!!

I only asked because the web page didn't say anything about it being sewn. :-)

I am glad to hear this. Thank you!

I'm going to overlook that aspersion cast upon my elaborately jokey but quite handsome print-on-demand projects, not to mention SUNY's backlist (grin), and say that I have ordered the numbered edition of Little, Big in addition to my prior order of the trade edition. I am a great lover of the traditional craft of printing and binding, though I would rather have a clunky reprint of an unavailable book than no book at all. (What must be the last copy in existence of a certain scholar's published dissertation is priced in the used-book market at two thousand dollars, which makes my long quest for multiple affordable copies of Aegypt seem paltry by comparison.)

Did you consciously schedule the original publication date for September 21? just asking.

Congratulations to you and your publisher! Wahoo, bravo, and encore! Unleash the dogs of type!

YES!

[and hurrah for my investment!]

The 300-copy Numbered edition is scheduled to go up in price after September 21st, the actual, bonafide 25th anniversary of the first publication of Little, Big.

The Trade edition (whose price tag will be maintained through to publication in Spring 2007) will in fact feature fine sewn bindings, full cloth, and archival papers, and will all by its lonesome be a stunningly beautiful example of the bookmaker's art. It's just that the Numbered and Lettered editions will be even finer, and include an added piece of writing by our Mr. Crowley the nature of which shall remain mysterious until publication.

I had the exquisite pleasure of a long, lovely afternoon's visit with Peter Milton and his wife Edith in rural New Hampshire on Saturday. Meeting them was like being reunited with old friends. Their home (built in 1883) and three-acre gardens reminded me of nothing so much as Edgewood in miniature. And to see the huge copper plate on Peter's workdesk that he'd spent much of the last year painstakingly engraving -- a work entitled "Visions and Revisions, Second State: In Search of Lost Time," a galleria of the most intricately and minutely wrought Proustian imagery -- left me and leaves me speechless with awe.

You can see high-definition scans of Milton's art at http://www.petermilton.com.

The adventure we now set out on -- to interweave John's pre-existing prose with Peter's pre-existing imagery, to place in intimate conversation the works of two living masters in a museum-quality edition of Little, Big -- is one every one of us (Crowley, Milton, Harold Bloom, book designer John D. Berry, myself as editor and publisher) feels is a rare honor, undertaken in a spirit of delighted celebration. We hope you'll join us.

Ron Drummond
editor@littlebig25.com

Hosannah!

Nine

wonderful news! can't wait for it, congratulations.

also, bandwagons....there's got to be some of them still in use *somewhere*. ;)

Callooh! Callay!

Wonderful news! I was just wondering yesterday how subscriptions were going.

I've had the numbered edition on order for years - can't wait for the finished article.

Anne

Just finished the novel this summer (had it on the shelf for years, where it sat patiently). I'll go for understatement and say that it is a real beaut. Am looking FWD to re-reading it in HC edition format. With pics too!

Oh, I am SO pleased. As this ranks with only perhaps two or three other books of which I have managed to wear out multiple copies, and has been forced by me upon more people than I can now recall, I'd say it's about bloody time...

Publication will take place - Congratulations - this is great news!
I just hope that your publishers get the allocation and mailing right. I say this beacause I have e-mailed Ron twice to notify him of a change of address (I have had two copies on order for over a year now) but have had no response or acknowledgement whatsoever from him. I hope he's OK and all's well in terms of admin and organisation.

I'm in the UK, so contact by anything other than e-mail is somewhat more complicated than if I were in the U.S.

Oh well, here's hoping....

Iain

Hi Ron, Thanks for confirming that all's well - your e-mail is very much appreciated. I knew you wouldn't have abandoned me, I was just being over-anxious to avoid any delay in receiving my copies of Little Big! I'm truly delighted that it's all going ahead and I know that it will be well worth the wait.

Best Regards,
Iain

Oh hooray! I only signed up for the thing so I could get a copy of my favorite book in hardback. The suspense has been unbearable, but now I can relax. (I hope.)

Dear Mr Crowley,

it is going to sound so corny please forgive me in advance: I am a great fan of your book Big, Little.

I personally work with the fairies and I do not know any other book wich has captured their magic as well as you did.

I have always wanted to get myself a hardcover edition of your book. I can't wait to hold it in my hands.

xxMany blessings
Estelliane

Oh oh oh, I cannot bare the excitement! It seems that lifetimes have passed in anticipation for this edition. I am waiting for one for my mother, and one for my father, and one for my sister, and of course one for myself, not mentiont the fifth, which was ordered, for you can never have too many copies of Little, Big. I already have four different copies, in three different editions. But this is the book that I feel like I have been waiting for my entire life. Congratulations to us all!

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