February 1st, 2007
A Calvin & Hobbes Fan
I’m a Calvin & Hobbes fan. Have been for a long time. Once upon a time when I wasn’t as busy with work, I actually spent time collecting strips from the official site. Religiously. Every day. Built up quite a collection too.
Recently I came across the collector’s edition of Calvin & Hobbes: The Complete Calvin & Hobbes. This includes all the syndicated strips plus all special illustrated stories and poems that have appeared in individual books. Plus an original introduction by the man himself, Bill Watterson. There are full-colour covers and spot art pieces all over the collection too. All this in 3 hardbound books in a box.
I ordered it. Sort of a New Year’s gift to myself. Got it on January 29.
Some photos:
February 13th, 2007 at 1:51 pm
When can I borrow it?
-S
February 14th, 2007 at 6:26 pm
You’ll have to pick it from my home. It’s rather heavy.
March 14th, 2007 at 10:26 pm
Please let me know where you got it from and how much it costs. Thanks !! Have you ever purchased from Amazon.com ?? If yes, pls share the experience.
March 31st, 2007 at 11:27 am
I got it within India as a special offer for customers of a particular credit card but it cost me the same as ordering on Amazon.com and paying for postage — the only difference being that I would have never ordered this book on Amazon since it’s expensive! I (my office actually) order books from Amazon monthly and our experience with Amazon has been crazy good. They are extremely professional and we recommend them to anybody who asks us.
June 15th, 2007 at 4:40 pm
hi,
I am a huge C n H fan.Though I possess a part of the collection in form of different books,I am dying to buy the complete collection.If u dont mind can you share the price at which you purchased it.I heard it is pretty expensive.
June 15th, 2007 at 5:13 pm
At the end of the day, it cost me just under Rs. 5,000/-
September 26th, 2007 at 3:43 pm
Just checked.. at Sapna Online Book Store.
http://www.sapnaonline.com/MoreInfoBK.aspx?lcID=EBK0142802
This set costs Rupees 5,054/-. If you buy it from their retail shop it costs more!
Am waiting for some festive discount!! 😉
Couple of years back I bought the whole set (22 books) of Tintin (other than Alph Art, Tintin in Congo and Tintin in Soviet) for a flat 50% discount (Rs. 117.50/- per book!!) from Scholastics in Bangalore. They threw up a massive discount sale for few days and I was lucky to spot it.
October 22nd, 2007 at 2:02 pm
It’s a great day for me today since I finally bought the collector’s edition of C n H! A book fair on today exclusively at our office and I got the set at a 20% discount.
Rs 5,525/- ($130 x 42.5)) and 20% discount brings it to Rs. 4,420/-. I paid him Rs. 4,400/-. Abhay, do you think it was a good deal? Am so very excited today.
June 16th, 2011 at 12:11 pm
WOW !!! I still remember when me n my sis wanted to read it you always used to say, “go wash your hands with soap, dry them, i’ll check, if satisfied, you’ll get it…”
😀
but still we got to read it
and
when it was new…very very new…..you kept it locked(i think so….don’t remember it…..if not plz don’t feel…)
😛