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Traitor wasn't originally released in hardback. So, you're basically going for hardbacks, even if they are just the Book Club Editions of books that aren't "really" in hardback format?
I actually started out with just wanting a copy of each item, no matter the format, but I found myself in a unique position in that I had been collecting EU since 1992, so I already had almost everything in its first release format (often first edition) by default. That made it a somewhat easier task to hunt down those that were not in first format in my collection (the early pre-Bantam Del Rey novels, the Droids and Ewoks comics, etc.).
I pretty much wrapped up the holes in the collection by picking up the last of the Ewoks (Star Comics) series and the 2002 Toys R Us exclusive comics over the last year or so.
Now, it's looking for the oddball items that I don't consider part of that "whole" collection. For instance, I have all of the Goodwin/Williamson strips as digital comic strips (from StarWars.com) and as the original issues (not the trade paperbacks anymore) of Classic Star Wars from Dark Horse. However, I'd REALLY like to get my hands on that three-volume, signed and numbered, slipcased trade set put out by Cochran years ago that had all of the Goodwin/Williamson newspaper strips in their original format. I've run across it on Ebay a few times, but it always goes above my budget, and the only one consistently on Ebay is one by some twit that has it up for a *starting* bid of basically $2,500, which is ridiculous in the extreme.
I have also started to add signed stuff to the collection, but I care much less about stuff signed by the film teams than I do the EU creative talents.
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