"Bone: The Complete Cartoon Epic in One Volume" HARDCOVER? 1 1

[Diz42]

Hello.  I'm not really a collector, as most of my comics were printed and purchased in the 90s...while in art school...and it pretty much ended there.  However I recently acquired a HARDCOVER version of this "Bone" collection, at a garage sale, as I remembered reading a few of these TPs way back when.  I see that they still print this full collection in paperback, but this one is a hardcover, and I cannot find ANYTHING online about this version even existing.  (It is NOT the "Limited Edition" one with the black cover, and the gold edges, and the bookmark ribbon...it's just a HC version of the paperback one.)  It also appears to be from a school's collection, too...and I do recall a failed attempt to try to ban this book from schools at one point, so...maybe it was acquired then?  I really don't know.  My question is basically: Is this maybe a version printed only for schools?  Does anybody have any insight on this?

[theCapraAegagrus]

On 6/26/2019 at 3:28 PM, Diz42 said:

...Is this maybe a version printed only for schools?  Does anybody have any insight on this?

I don't have any insight beyond answering your question - which is "no" - it wasn't printed only for schools.

[miraclemet]

this one?

[miraclemet]

On 6/26/2019 at 3:28 PM, Diz42 said:

...I cannot find ANYTHING online about this version even existing. 

I literally searched amazon and ebay using the words bone, color , and hardcover and found the Amazons listing  (produced by Fantagraphics in 2009 and still in print) and copies for sale/auction on ebay...

Where did you look online?!?!?

[theCapraAegagrus]

10 hours ago, miraclemet said:

I literally searched amazon and ebay using the words bone, color , and hardcover and found the Amazons listing  (produced by Fantagraphics in 2009 and still in print) and copies for sale/auction on ebay...

Where did you look online?!?!?

Same.

OP might be a one-and-done.

[revat]

Can anyone identify this extremely rare thing that doesn’t look like anything I’ve seen in all my internet research that is so rare that I had to create an account on a comic forum, make an entire thread about it, but cannot be bothered to post a picture of or tell you the publishing date?

[valiantman]

On 7/2/2019 at 10:37 AM, revat said:

Can anyone identify this extremely rare thing that doesn’t look like anything I’ve seen in all my internet research that is so rare that I had to create an account on a comic forum, make an entire thread about it, but cannot be bothered to post a picture of or tell you the publishing date?

What-do-you-mean-you-know-exactly-what-it-is-and-it-isn't-rare-because-I-was-expecting-private-messages-offering-me-thousands-of-dollars-for-it-because-it-is-so-rare-that-I-have-a-copy-without-even-really-trying-but-no-one-else-who-is-actually-trying-to-find-it-can-find-it-and-so-they-want-to-give-me-lots-of-money-for-the-only-copy-that-only-I-have-by-accident?

You-guys-are-mean-I-am-leaving-and-taking-my-super-rare-book-with-me-because-other-sites-don't-know-it-isn't-rare-so-I-will-sell-it-there.

[valiantman]

Here's one with the slipcase that sold for $67.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/Bone-One-Volume-Hardcover-HC-Jeff-Smith-/192905684581

I remember buying one for about $20 a few years ago without the slipcase so that I could read it.

Read it back then.  It was good. 

[videoloop]

It could be the HC print that was part of the 20th Anniversary Box Set.

It had a blue cover, foil lettering, inset artwork, and it was in color.

 

[Ryan.]

I bought the first edition softcover version directly from Jeff Smith at SDCC in 2004. How does this information help this thread at all? It doesn't!