I guess I must have missed the glittering advertising campaign, but browsing my local bookstore I was very surprised to find new paperback editions of The Hustler and The Color of Money. As anyone who's gone looking in the last few years knows they have only been available in a library-edition hardback for some time.
You can get both at Amazon at a discount over the RRP of $13.95 each. Whilst you are there I'd strongly recommend Tevis' "The Queen's Gambit", which is excellent even without Pool in it.
There are only 2 downsides for me - Firstly, although the covers and binding are nicely done they've used scenes from the movies for the cover artwork. Whilst this is OK for The Hustler it makes no sense for The Color Of Money to show Tom Cruise on the cover, as uninitiated readers are in for a rude shock if they buy the book on the basis of it containing his character from the film.
The only other problem is they cheaped out on the typesetting, a problem that seems to be common when out-of-print books are revived . I'm assuming (And if someone knows more about the book business please correct me if I'm wrong) that they took the original small paperback and simply optically copied and enlarged the text for this edition which uses the taller "art" paperback format. As a result the text has a fuzzy look to it that I find unattractive. As neither book is especially long they could have re-set the text and fitted both into a single volume that would not have been much bigger.
You can get both at Amazon at a discount over the RRP of $13.95 each. Whilst you are there I'd strongly recommend Tevis' "The Queen's Gambit", which is excellent even without Pool in it.
There are only 2 downsides for me - Firstly, although the covers and binding are nicely done they've used scenes from the movies for the cover artwork. Whilst this is OK for The Hustler it makes no sense for The Color Of Money to show Tom Cruise on the cover, as uninitiated readers are in for a rude shock if they buy the book on the basis of it containing his character from the film.
The only other problem is they cheaped out on the typesetting, a problem that seems to be common when out-of-print books are revived . I'm assuming (And if someone knows more about the book business please correct me if I'm wrong) that they took the original small paperback and simply optically copied and enlarged the text for this edition which uses the taller "art" paperback format. As a result the text has a fuzzy look to it that I find unattractive. As neither book is especially long they could have re-set the text and fitted both into a single volume that would not have been much bigger.
Thanks AuntyDan, I was aware The Hustler was out of print but, not The Color of Money! Learn somthing new every day here! I must go get em while the gettings good.