Youka Nitta
fyi: Embracing Love 5 in stock at The Beguiling 
20th-Jul-2008 01:58 pm
As some of you know, affordable copies of the BeBeautiful English translations of Haru wo Daite Ita have become hard to find. As far as I can tell, the only one readily available for under $20 is volume 4 - there appear to be several used copies on Amazon and eBay.

(Bidding for volume 2 on eBay is currently up to $38. #1 and #3 will each cost you over $40 on Amazon marketplace. #5 is listed as available new & used @ Amazon -- but it's "temporarily" out of stock, and the first genuine reseller is asking for $60. Yeow!)

The good news is that I just got off the phone with Peter @ The Beguiling, a comics store in Toronto. He says he has a few copies of v4 and v5 left at $19.95 CDN/US (before shipping). The online shopping system is wonky (it generated a script error when I tried to check out), but they do take orders and answer inquiries over e-mail and the phone.
Comments 
20th-Jul-2008 03:42 pm
Thanks for letting us know. I'll see if I can get a hold of #5.
21st-Jul-2008 04:14 am
In case anyone else looks here - NO ONE should pay more than $20 shipped for book 4 right now. It was in stock at Amazon up to a week ago, and can still be found there and on Ebay and at Half.com, etc. for decent prices.

So, for anyone else looking, book 4 was the book most recently in stock in English and seemed to have the largest print run. Book 2 is the English edition that for some reason was shorted. That Ebay sale for 2 went for $100 and that's still a deal compared to the $180 lowest price I've been seeing for months.

For some reason, people have started to get off their other books a bit, and you can probably find books 1, 3 and 5 for about $40 between Amazon and Ebay and Half, etc., if you keep looking. Book 6 was never published, dammit, and it's one of the best.

4 and 5 are almost must-haves for those of us stranded in English. The scanlations of 4 and 5 are ATROCIOUS, and 6 isn't much better. *sigh*

love, lore
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