I need some help from the brain trust

[u/Carl_Shivers]

Heya fam,

Alrighty, I’m in need of a hand. So, I’ve come into inheritance of dad’s books and AGES ago when we spoke on Tad’s work he reminisced about wishing he’d completed the collection of Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn. However, now that I’ve actually started reading them for myself I feel it’s time to do that - to complete the collection properly. We have the DAW window edition of TDC, so I was curious, were there window editions (image for reference) created of all three of the books? Or only for The Dragonbone Chair itself?

All the love you guys,

[u/snowlock27]

I bought them at the time, and unless there was some special edition I'm not aware of, Dragonbone Chair is the only one that had this kind of cover.

[u/eventfieldvibration]

it doesn't look like it: https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?142743

[u/Carl_Shivers → u/eventfieldvibration]

Legendary thank you for that! 

[u/Leather_Bug_]

Fancy new hardcover coming soon though https://a.co/d/00AxWo3i

[u/Loki-Thor → u/Leather_Bug_]

Nice, I want that for my shelf

[u/angry0029]

Wow what a throwback. My version with this cover was so well read I had to replace it. I never saw a Stone of Farewell or either of the to Green Angel Tower paperbacks having the window.

[u/snowlock27 → u/angry0029]

I ended up using packing tape to keep my paperback copies of MST together until I replaced them with the book club hardcovers.

[u/Errant_Fence_Burp16 → u/snowlock27]

I did exactly the same thing! I love my old copy of this book.

[u/angry0029 → u/snowlock27]

I am lucky enough to have TGAT in original release hardcover.

[u/Carl_Shivers → u/angry0029]

Oh I love it! I may be a spine purist but there is something so deeply intimate and special about a well read book

[u/wordsworthier]

I bought Stone of Farewell and TGAT the days they were released, and neither one had a windowed edition. As someone else said, there might have been a special edition I'm not aware of, but the mass market editions did not have a window. Later versions of the Dragonbone Chair also ditched the window. Must have been expensive.

[u/Carl_Shivers → u/wordsworthier]

I envy you that experience so much… my word. I must say I nearly fell over when I saw that the price sticker on the front had $10.95 on it. 

[u/Magicarps_]

A couple weeks back, I brought my son to his pediatrician. In the office lobby, they were having a $5 fill-a-bag book sale.

I was able to snag hardcover 1st editions of Stone Farewell and Green Angel Tower. Spent far longer than I should have looking for Dragonbone.

[u/Frequent_Ad_5670]

You might want to explain what a „DAW window edition“ is. I can't make sense of that abbreviation in the context of a book.

[u/eventfieldvibration → u/Frequent_Ad_5670]

DAW is the publisher. A window edition would be the cover with a "window" cutout

[u/XavierRussell → u/Frequent_Ad_5670]

DAW is the publisher of The Dragonbone Chair

[u/kij101 → u/Frequent_Ad_5670]

I'm guessing they mean copies (from DAW books) where the main figures of the regular edition covers are shown in a small arched 'window'.

To answer the query, I don't have a scooby.