# Give Me Joy! *The Urth list — 2 messages, 2 voices, 25 Oct 2006* > Exported from an unofficial mirror of a public mailing list. Copyright > in each message remains with the person who wrote it. > Email addresses are obscured as `user at host`, the form the original > archive published. This file was rebuilt from parsed fields rather than > retained headers, so it is faithful in content but not byte-exact. --- ### Fred Kiesche *25 Oct 2006, 14:49* Greetings: Huzzah, found first editions of the BotNS and Urth for a sane price. They are on their way to me. I bought the "Book" in paperback from Timescape (at the time that was all I could afford!) and re-bought them in their Tor Orb trades. But I've always wanted hardcovers. (The subject line, BTW, is Yet Another Literary Reference. This time from the wonderous Patrick O'Brian tales of Captain "Lucky Jack" Aubrey.) Fred Kiesche (FPK3) My books are water; those of great geniuses are wine. Everybody drinks water. (Mark Twain, "Notebook") Over 7,000 postings served! See The Eternal Golden Braid (http://theeternalgoldenbraid.blogspot.com/ ). --- ### don doggett *25 Oct 2006, 19:58 · in reply to Fred Kiesche* Fred Kiesche wrote: Greetings: Huzzah, found first editions of the BotNS and Urth for a sane price. They are on their way to me. I bought the "Book" in paperback from Timescape (at the time that was all I could afford!) and re-bought them in their Tor Orb trades. But I've always wanted hardcovers. Yeah, they're pretty sweet. I picked up a pristine first of 5hc for under $20, but the botns is pricey. Don ---