Editing The Pen Addict 40/transcript (section)

== Limited Editions ==


'''Brad Dowdy:''' Exactly. It was very troubling to me.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Because now there are like – not only is it, oh, I've got this color. There are now differing levels of rarity to the colors. You're now putting a rare stamp even within the rarest of them. Do you know what I mean? So it's like adding layers of it.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' So get this. So yes. And so one of the – I actually made – I took note – this is how bad I am. I took notes while they were discussing these going, oh, I didn't know that. I need to write this down. So for – one of my favorites that we haven't talked about a lot, it's called American Tradesman.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' It's just a really well-made edition. It came with some cool add-ons and one of the add-ons it came with was a red carpenter pencil. Okay. You know what I'm talking – you know what I mean?

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah, I always wanted the American Tradesman but never got –

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah. So they shipped with a red carpenter pencil. Well, towards the end of the run, they ran out of red carpenter pencils. So they made white ones. Oh. So some people have white carpenter pencils with their American Tradesman. Mine are all red because I ordered right out the gate. So from a collectability standpoint, you're in trouble.

'''Myke Hurley:''' In that instance, you were better off waiting.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah, because now they don't make the red or the white carpenter pencils anymore. They just make black ones.

'''Myke Hurley:''' You can still buy them online. I see some resetters still have the stock.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yep. Yep. So, I mean, it's little tiny differences like that. And like the Traveling Salesman edition came with a button. And I think they printed six different buttons. And based on the region of the U.S. you were in, they sent you – your button said something different. Like mine would have said Southeast. I'd have to go look at it to confirm that because I didn't notice it in the beginning.

'''Myke Hurley:''' I didn't get a button with mine.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah, because you're across the pond. You don't count.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Again, I bought those from a U.K. reseller.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Ah, there you go. So, see, maybe it's not the same edition. But it likely is. It probably just didn't come with the extras.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Let's see what it says.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' So, like I bought the Drive Into the Gap edition.

'''Myke Hurley:''' All mine says is Traveling Salesman edition of $24,000.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Okay. That sounds like the accurate first edition. You just didn't get the extras. Like I bought the Drive Into the Gap, which was the summer baseball edition that came with a book. I didn't order those at first. Then I ordered them, I think, from Jetpens. And they came without the book, which was fine by me. Because the book is still available. Yeah. But anyway, it was lots of little side comments like that. Those were the things that really piqued my interest. Like my ears perked up a little bit when they said things like that. I was like, oh, you've got to be kidding me.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' But they did say one other thing was that Black Raven's Wing one. That's like the Black Letterpress. That one was the fastest to sell out. And it's been the most requested to reprint. I mean, they're not going to reprint it.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Oh.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' I mean, they didn't say specifically that they weren't, but I imagine that they're not.

'''Myke Hurley:''' I want one of those ones. Yeah.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Those are the – that's been one of the most – that's the one they hear about all the time. Like, I want this. I want this.

'''Myke Hurley:''' I think that was the first book that I saw, but it wasn't the first that I bought. So I bought the – as I said before, I bought the ones with the transfer, the dry transfer edition. Mm-hmm. But, yeah, I remember seeing the Raven's Wing.