Signed Collectors Edition!!!

**Raine** · October 16th, 2009

Originally Posted by jchanic

Oh, yes, I forgot in my last post to congratulate all those who got the US signed edition in the second time around. The site still seems to accepting orders, so I'd make sure your credit card actually got charged before I'd feel safe in getting one of the copies. I have the feeling that they may be taking more orders than they have books available.

John

I am really worried now, do you know if your credit card has been charged right away? I wouldn't have thought they would take more orders than they could fulfil? I thought they were selling surplus stock from the orders that couldn't be fulfilled last time (overseas orders), so surely they would know how much stock they had before agreeing to the purchase!

**keropi** · October 16th, 2009

Here it is 8:00pm now in Japan (there 6:00am on October 16), I've checked the site and the signed copy is still available. No way...
Does anybody kindly offer to place an order for me? My post is still under 5 and cannot send the private message, so if anybody could, send the message with e-mail address, please. Thanks again.

**bookingalong** · November 6th, 2009

I am too excited! I got my tracking number and I should get it here really soon!!!!!!

Today is a good day!

**jchanic** · November 6th, 2009

Originally Posted by keropi

Here it is 8:00pm now in Japan (there 6:00am on October 16), I've checked the site and the signed copy is still available. No way...
Does anybody kindly offer to place an order for me? My post is still under 5 and cannot send the private message, so if anybody could, send the message with e-mail address, please. Thanks again.

You may have an "old" copy of that site in your cache. The edition is no longer available and hasn't been for a couple weeks. Clear your cache and check it again.

Your best bet to get a copy is via one of the secondary sources, such as eBay. I'd recommend waiting a while until the initial spike in prices settles down (a copy went for about $700 not too long ago) and try then. You'll pay more than the inital $200 price, but it should settle down to about $300-$350 soon. Just a guess, though, on those prices.

John

**scottdesign** · November 6th, 2009

According to the UPS tracking number provided by simonandschuster.com...my Signed UTD Collectors Edition is out for delivery at 5:10am this morning and will be delivered to me TODAY (11/6)! I can't wait to get home from work!

**RichardX** · November 6th, 2009

Received my signed copy today! Wasn't expecting it until next week. Now the question is do I read it and risk messing it up or wait until the trade edition comes out?

**baylorbear2008** · November 6th, 2009

I am not able to access tracking...it says that there is no record of my email in the system, yet I ordered the book and recieved the email saying it has been sent out. So...interesting.

**baylorbear2008** · November 6th, 2009

I apologize for the double post...but I got it to work through UPS tracking. Looks like it will be in on Monday the 9th...as much as I do not want to read that copy, it will be so tempting to pick it up instead of waiting for my copy to arrive from Amazon (whenever they decide to ship it)

**w666** · November 9th, 2009

I too have received my "Signed Limited Edition" (I saw another post about this somewhere...), and I am disappointed not to have received the "stamped case" (I assumed this was a "slip case"....is that too much to expect for $200?) referred to in S&S's copy on their site. Verbatim:

This edition of Under the Dome, Stephen King's tour-de-force new novel about a Maine town suddenly cut off by an invisible, impenetrable Dome, has a belly band around the jacket, a stamped case, four-color printed endpapers, 27 part title illustrations of characters in the book drawn by renowned New Yorker cartoonist Matthew Diffee, and a ribbon maker. The edition also contains a deck of 27 special collector's cards featuring the Diffee caricatures. Printed on speciality paper. Shrink-wrapped.

I've written S&S to ask for an explanation.

**rjt65** · November 9th, 2009

Hi i replied to someone on this friday---

what is your definition of a stamped case?

I am no expert by any means but I took off the dust jacket and tilted the cover and lo and behld i had a stamped Dog (horace Greelley) on the cover.. and stamped SK name, title and scribner on the Spine)

So i think that is STAMPED ?

cheers

Originally Posted by w666

I too have received my "Signed Limited Edition" (I saw another post about this somewhere...), and I am disappointed not to have received the "stamped case" (I assumed this was a "slip case"....is that too much to expect for $200?) referred to in S&S's copy on their site. Verbatim:

This edition of Under the Dome, Stephen King's tour-de-force new novel about a Maine town suddenly cut off by an invisible, impenetrable Dome, has a belly band around the jacket, a stamped case, four-color printed endpapers, 27 part title illustrations of characters in the book drawn by renowned New Yorker cartoonist Matthew Diffee, and a ribbon maker. The edition also contains a deck of 27 special collector's cards featuring the Diffee caricatures. Printed on speciality paper. Shrink-wrapped.

I've written S&S to ask for an explanation.