what are the rarest SW hardcover books?

Hi all. I've been collecting SW books for a few years and wanted to get your thoughts on the hardest to find/rarest SW hardcover books. I haven't been able to find a master list that shows everything that was published in HC, so hopefully this thread will uncover some rare items for me to seek out. Here are some of the ones I already have:

Complete NJO series in hardcover
Lando Calrissian and Mindharp...
Lando Calrissian and the Flamewind...
Tales ominbus
Han Solo trilogy
Jedi Academy trilogy
Young Jedi Knights series
Black Fleet Crisis trilogy
Correlian trilogy
Bounty Hunter Wars trilogy

Thanks!

 

The original hardcover novelization of the orginal movie. The one with the gold cover (like the early paperback printings) NOT the sci-fi book club one. I've seen it go for $200.00 before on Ebay. There are also mass-market hardcovers for the 1st two Han Solo books ("Star's End" and "Revenge") as well as "Splinter of the Mind's Eye". These are also not the bookclub versions. For some reason the last "Solo" book and the "Lando" books were not released in HC,(again, with the exception of the bookclub versions, and the 3rd Lando book was not even released by the bookclub for some reason).

 

The Thrawn quintology?
I see at least the original 3 as being rare or collector's editions simply because those are some of the earliest novel works written.

 

I have the original hardcovers of Heir to the Empire and The Last Command.

 

Yeah, they're in quite a few libraries. Not rare.

 

i have the hardcover version of heir to the empire and i don't recall the corellian trilogy and the black fleet crisis. being in hardcover

 

I have a hardcover of Last Command which i picked up for 50 cents at a library junk sale. had no idea it could be valuable

 

Katana, I doubt it is valuable. There are still a lot of those floating around. The MMP are more available, of course, and that's what you'll find at your local Borders, etc. - but if you keep your eyes open, you'll find the old hardcovers of TTT in a used bookstore from time to time. They're not terribly valuable yet.

 

I have all the books in hardcover that you have listed. I got most of them from the Science Fiction Book Club. They are not that rare. You can buy all of them on Ebay. The two Lando Adventure hardcover books and the three Han Solo Adventure hardcover books, I bought off Ebay years ago. The third Lando Adventure book was never published in hardcover for some reason.

 

I would venture to guess that the HC of "Splinter of the Mind's Eye" may be tough to find, even if it was mass-market. I think it was only published in HC back when it came out - I read a copy borrowed from a library years ago, but that's the only HC I've seen of that title.

 

Splinter of the Mind's Eye came out in hardcover in february 1978, followed by a paperback in March 1978... (and then there's the SFBC hardcover, which is readily available on the Internet, as opposed to the original 1978 hardcover)

 

this is great -- really helpful. definitely seems like the original retail editions of the earliest books are the rarest/most expensive.

 

SOTE was a hardcover wasn't it? I saw it in hardcover but it was nothing special, just paperback-sized book with a hardcover.

Should I have bought it?

 

Paperback size? SOTE was a regular-size hardcover, but I have (rarely) seen 'library edition' PB-size hardcovers. I can't see why they would do that for a book that came out as a traditional hardcover, though.

If you mean TPB size, it was probably one of the SFBC ones. They run (or used to) slightly smaller than normal hardcovers.

 

My guess is that it was a book that was rebound by a library to be sturdier.

 

No it wasn't, it was in a bookshop a few years ago and had the art on it and everything. It was a paper-back sized hardcover

 

Was it a used bookstore?

 

Nope. at Angus & Robertson. The book was a little faded though which is probably why I didn't get it.

 

I got mine from Ebay a while ago. Probably still a great place to find one.

 

I picked up the Fall of the Diversity Alliance YJK hardcover at a used bookstore a few weeks back. Cost me 30 bucks, but it's in pristine condition. Thinking I might go back and pick up the Shadown Academy hardcover. Didn't see the final one though.

 

No one have any ideas on the copy of SOTE I probably should have bought?

 

No idea..

The SOTE I have is the hardback version they released and it was normal sized.

 

We all know the rarest of all is Bib Fortuna and the Rise of the Dark Falls