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Post by malcolmostlere on Mar 31, 2014 23:20:34 GMT
Gad.I bought the first DW adaptation from a paperback-dispensing machine on a platform of (I think) Salisbury station when I was nor but a lad. I was quite amazed to discover later-think I'm right?-that rehearsal sketches of the actors in mufti were used in the first hardback.Any experts out there? You live in the future!!! Us poor Aussie cobbers grew up with no fancy robotic transmat book dispensers. We had to walk twenty miles to a bookstore in the rain. With no shoes. Dodging Kangaroos and koalas. Sounds like Luxury to me. We used to have to get out of the lake at three o'clock in the morning, clean the lake, eat a handful of hot gravel, go to work at the mill every day for tuppence a month, come home, and Dad would beat us around the head and neck with a broken bottle, if we were LUCKY! And twice a decade we would be able to look at a cover of a dr who book in a bookshop window. With apologies to the four Yorkshire men....... |
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Post by John Green on Mar 31, 2014 23:30:10 GMT
You live in the future!!! Us poor Aussie cobbers grew up with no fancy robotic transmat book dispensers. We had to walk twenty miles to a bookstore in the rain. With no shoes. Dodging Kangaroos and koalas. Sounds like Luxury to me. We used to have to get out of the lake at three o'clock in the morning, clean the lake, eat a handful of hot gravel, go to work at the mill every day for tuppence a month, come home, and Dad would beat us around the head and neck with a broken bottle, if we were LUCKY! And twice a decade we would be able to look at a cover of a dr who book in a bookshop window. With apologies to the four Yorkshire men....... Just in case anyone's wondering,I'm not sure that I ever saw another one of those machines again.Chocolate and gay man (that is,gay man as in cigarette) dispensing ones,certainly,but not a book.The ride back to Southampton was very pleasant... |
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Post by Will Weller on Apr 2, 2014 9:00:42 GMT
Managed to get a copy of The Wheel in Space yesterday in mint condition! Cost me £25, but it was so worth it!!!  |
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Post by Robert Manners on Apr 6, 2014 23:55:49 GMT
The Waterstones in Stockport had a load of Neon logo Target novels well into the 1990s, I was really surprised when I 1st went in around 1993! For some reason, my titles were still available back then with the Neon logo, for example in 1992/1993 I was able to order inferno, The Highlanders and Terminus from my local Waterstones, along with titles like 'The Tenth planet' with older logo. Yet not The Rescue, The Wheel in Space and Macra Terror for example. |
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Post by Marty Schultz on Apr 7, 2014 0:45:43 GMT
Anyone remember the ads for other target books? Agton Sax etc? Bought a couple of books over the years just because of the Target logo.
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Post by Will Weller on Apr 7, 2014 19:21:03 GMT
My Virgin reprint of The Massacre arrived today, can't wait to get into it!
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Post by David Fade on Apr 7, 2014 21:43:32 GMT
Some of my nicest memories as a kid were going to the paperback section in WH Smith, and standing there for 15 minutes or so whilst choosing which Target Dr Who novel to buy. My first was Day of the Daleks in 1975-ish, and I bought them regularly for about 10 years. Along with the Making of Doctor Who paperback from around 1976. My first was 'Day of the Daleks' back then also. I only had 30p on me at the time and it was the first one the assistant picked up that was for sale at that price. Ah, happy memories! As it happens, I've got a load of duplicates after updating my collection a while back, which I'm happy to give away if anyone wants them. |
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Post by Marty Schultz on Apr 8, 2014 2:03:37 GMT
Some of my nicest memories as a kid were going to the paperback section in WH Smith, and standing there for 15 minutes or so whilst choosing which Target Dr Who novel to buy. My first was Day of the Daleks in 1975-ish, and I bought them regularly for about 10 years. Along with the Making of Doctor Who paperback from around 1976. My first was 'Day of the Daleks' back then also. I only had 30p on me at the time and it was the first one the assistant picked up that was for sale at that price. Ah, happy memories! As it happens, I've got a load of duplicates after updating my collection a while back, which I'm happy to give away if anyone wants them. I do too. I was going to suggest we start a DW book buy/sell/swap FB group. Anyone interested?? |
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Post by Matthew Tate on Apr 8, 2014 22:38:17 GMT
Managed to get a copy of The Wheel in Space yesterday in mint condition! Cost me £25, but it was so worth it!!! I'm rebuilding my Target collection right now and knew from the start that Wheel was the rarest - it goes for between £20 and £30 on eBay so I decided to save myself the hassle and bought it from The Who Shop online for £25 - it came today and to me looks brand new - very happy with that! Was that where you got yours from? I've only got about 20 left to get - it's actually quite hard despite the amount of them on eBay as for nostalgic reasons I want the 80s reprints with the numbered spines and on eBay it's very rarely specified which edition it is unless it's a 1st edition. |
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Post by Marty Schultz on Apr 9, 2014 0:12:15 GMT
It is hard to find specific covers online. Sellers on Amazon use stock photos to illustrate what they have. So you can easily order what appears to be the blue spined edition of 'Planet of the Spiders' while in fact iit s just the standard metebelis crystal cover.
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Post by Matthew Tate on Apr 9, 2014 0:24:20 GMT
It is hard to find specific covers online. Sellers on Amazon use stock photos to illustrate what they have. So you can easily order what appears to be the blue spined edition of 'Planet of the Spiders' while in fact iit s just the standard metebelis crystal cover. Coincidentally Planet of the Spiders is one I still need, and it's the spider/crystal version I want. But with a numbered spine! |
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Post by Steven Christopherson on Apr 9, 2014 1:56:40 GMT
eBay seems to be spot on with the covers. Maybe 1% are stock, probably those users not equipt with a camera
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Post by Matthew Tate on Apr 9, 2014 4:15:36 GMT
eBay seems to be spot on with the covers. Maybe 1% are stock, probably those users not equipt with a camera Not as spot on as it first appears, as I've found out, for example there's a huge seller called worldofbooks with 100s listed and over 1 million fb who use what look like customer taken pictures but are in fact stock images. There are a few sellers like that too. |
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Post by Will Weller on Apr 9, 2014 6:26:58 GMT
Managed to get a copy of The Wheel in Space yesterday in mint condition! Cost me £25, but it was so worth it!!! I'm rebuilding my Target collection right now and knew from the start that Wheel was the rarest - it goes for between £20 and £30 on eBay so I decided to save myself the hassle and bought it from The Who Shop online for £25 - it came today and to me looks brand new - very happy with that! Was that where you got yours from? I've only got about 20 left to get - it's actually quite hard despite the amount of them on eBay as for nostalgic reasons I want the 80s reprints with the numbered spines and on eBay it's very rarely specified which edition it is unless it's a 1st edition. Hi Matt, yes, I got my Target Copy of Wheel in Space from the Who Shop.  (This is my 100th post on the forum!!!!!!!!!) |
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Post by Marty Schultz on Apr 9, 2014 11:01:35 GMT
It is hard to find specific covers online. Sellers on Amazon use stock photos to illustrate what they have. So you can easily order what appears to be the blue spined edition of 'Planet of the Spiders' while in fact iit s just the standard metebelis crystal cover. Coincidentally Planet of the Spiders is one I still need, and it's the spider/crystal version I want. But with a numbered spine! The big question is - will you order them on your bookshelf in broadcast order or Target number order? |
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