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I ask for help: Purchase of R. A. Salvatore Novels nearly impossible

kamuizinkamuizin Member Posts: 3,704
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Hi ppl.

I'm searching places to purchase R. A. Salvatore Novels, specifically atm Drizzt's saga. I Have nearly them all unnoficially and i want to officialize this.

In Brazil it's nearly IMPOSSIBLE to purchase these titles. After read most of my digital copies, i develop the desire to have this collection in my shelf. I researched almost every single specialized store and most of them says they can't help me or the cost isn't economically worth the trouble.

I contacted directly the R. A. Salvatore site with no reply and, surprisingly, almost all the titles are out of marketing there!!

On Amazon in paperback i found only some of the books, but i really want to purchase them all.

So, the book i'm trying to purchase are these:

Dark Elf trilogy:
Homeland (1990)
Exile (1990)
Sojourn (1991)

Icewind Dale trilogy:
The Crystal Shard (1988)
Streams of Silver (1989)
The Halfling's Gem (1990)

Legacy of the Drow:
The Legacy (1992)
Starless Night (1993)
Siege of Darkness (1994)
Passage to Dawn (1996)

Paths of Darkness:
The Silent Blade (1998)
The Spine of the World (1999)
Sea of Swords (novel) (2001)

Hunter's Blades trilogy:
The Thousand Orcs (2002)
The Lone Drow (2003)
The Two Swords (2004)

Transitions:
The Orc King (2007)
The Pirate King (2008)
The Ghost King (2009)

The Neverwinter Saga:
Gauntlgrym (novel) (2010)
Neverwinter (novel) (2011)
Charon's Claw (2012)
The Last Threshold (2013)


The Sundering:
The Companions (2013)

Companions Codex:
Night of the Hunter (2014)
Rise of the King (2014)
Vengeance of the Iron Dwarf (2015)


So, i ask:

There's any website that can sell me these items as news? If not, can i purchase demi-new versions of them anywhere?

Physically, there's any place in EUA or Europe where i can get these books directly (english version)? I have some friends that travel a lot and can help me with this.

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  • FardragonFardragon Member Posts: 4,511
    Most pulp fiction only gets one or two print runs. Pretty much the only way to pick them up after that is to trawl second hand book shops.

    Electronic publishing is a great boon for getting out of print books.
  • dunbardunbar Member Posts: 1,603
    I've just checked on Amazon UK and the have +/- 200 titles on their R.A.Salvatore paperback page.
  • FardragonFardragon Member Posts: 4,511
    Will they ship to Brazil though? I would imagine Amazon USA would be cheeper, anyway, both because of less distance, and because some of the novels didn't have a UK edition, and hence would have been imported from the USA in the first place.
  • PibaroPibaro Member, Translator (NDA) Posts: 2,989
    edited August 2015
    You can start here
    http://www.amazon.com/Legend-Drizzt-Forgotten-Salvatore-Collection/dp/B00N48S1P6/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1439117771&sr=1-2&keywords=r.a.+salvatore+drizzt+series
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  • kamuizinkamuizin Member Posts: 3,704
    edited August 2015
    Thx guys. Price isn't a problem. I will deal with it. My problem was to find the titles.

    Amazon for brasil has an extension .br, and i can be wrong but apparently i have less results in the top domain of my country. Sometimes i searched through google and got results for Amazon sales that i didn't get directly on Amazon.

    Special thanks for @Shandyr as that list probally gave him some work.

    Edit:

    For now i'm purchasing from the dark elf trilogy to path of darkness, the value atm is U$ 101,11, which will result in probally ~R$400,00 more or less in my country coin (taking in fact the monthly fee of Brazil atm is R$ 678,00 it will be an serious investment).

    Obs: This table of purchase of @Shandyr deserve to be fixed. It changed a life here :)!
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  • LadyRhianLadyRhian Member Posts: 14,694
    Abebooks or Alibris sometimes also has copies for cheaper. Also, try half.com (a subsidiary of E-bay)

    http://www.abebooks.com/?&cm_mmc=ggl-_-US_AbeBooks_Brand-_-Top Brand esvg_3739643-_-abebooks&gclid=CP3hgrbKoscCFQ2QHwod28kA2g

    http://www.alibris.com/?url=http://www.alibris.com?utm_term=alibris&utm_campaign=none&adpos=1t1&creative=81845957289&device=c&matchtype=e&network=g&Mkwid=alibris'sptkuLFFm&mcid=81845957289&gclid=CK_LpNLKoscCFcWPHwodGr8Fmw

    Also, another place to try: Books A Million

    http://www.booksamillion.com/?ad=GLBKSBAMM&gclid=CISz7_XKoscCFZKRHwod1AwElA
  • rufus_hobartrufus_hobart Member Posts: 490
    Ahhhh damnit, if only i'd seen this post a few days earlier. I have copies of the Dark Elf Trilogy, The Icewind Dale Trilogy and the Cleric Quintet I would have sent to you if you wanted, kamuizin...if you didn't mind second hand copies in not all that great condition...my books tend to be well read and show it ;-)

    Sorry man, could have saved you some cash, but hope you enjoy the reading! My bad for not popping in here earlier!
  • kamuizinkamuizin Member Posts: 3,704
    No problem, i wish the bookshelf to be shinning with D&D novels anyway, this is just the start of a huge cliff of empity pockets :)!
  • DJKajuruDJKajuru Member Posts: 3,300
    @kamuizin , I'm from Brazil too and I've had the same problem. Only the Icewind Dale Trilogy is available at specialised stores!

    I suppose I'll do it just like you and buy from Amazon. ;D
  • rufus_hobartrufus_hobart Member Posts: 490
    Heh, well my offer stands, if your purchase falls through, @kamuizin, or @DJKajuru, if you want your own well-read copies of IWD trilogy, Dark Elf trilogy, Cleric Quintet, oh or also a battered copy of The Legacy, just let me know and i'll wing 'em over to Brazil ;-) Cheers.
  • kamuizinkamuizin Member Posts: 3,704
    @rufus_hobart, real thx but i will go not only for the read but for collection also.
  • kamuizinkamuizin Member Posts: 3,704
    For Brazilian onlookers whishing to make the same purchase:

    Bom, descobri que a livraria cultura (diferente do que um atendente me disse quando estive pessoalmente presente em uma das lojas) possui toda a saga Drizzt.

    Só peqsuisar por R.A. Salvatore no site. Um pouco mais caro que o normal, já que a Livraria Cultura não é muito conhecida por sua dadivosidade nos preços, mas vale a pena.
  • kamuizinkamuizin Member Posts: 3,704
    So here i am again. Recently (2 days ago) i purchase the Hunter's Blade, Transitions and Neverwinter saga all togheter, an freaking expensive purchase (as i don't made it into an event) but i believe it will be worth the payment.

    Now i'm looking foward Drizzt's books to decide what other histories are worth to purchase (and possible to find in Brazil also).

    "The Sundering" books and "The War of the Spider Queen" are must have purchases, ok, but after these i'm still wondering which ones to purchase. So... what does you people suggest?

    So, after a little research, until this moment some of the following books piqued my interest:


    1 - The Avatar Series (COLLECTIVE WORK):
    -Shadowdale (Scott Ciencin)
    -Tantras (Scott Ciencin)
    -Waterdeep (Troy Denning)
    -Prince of Lies (James Lowder)
    -Crucible: The Trial of Cyric the Mad (Troy Denning)


    2 - Watterdeep Series (COLLECTIVE WORK):
    -Blackstaff Tower (steven E. Schend)
    -Mistshore (Jaleigh Johnson)
    -Downshadow (erik Scoot de Bie)
    -City of the Dead (Rosemary Jones)
    -The God Catcher (Erin M. Evans)
    -Circle of Skulls (James P. Davis)


    3 -Brimstone Angels saga (Erin M. Evans)


    4 - Shandril's Saga (Ed Greenwood, if i'm not wrong it's the first D&D official novel)


    5 - Elminster books (Ed Greenwood)


    Besides this list, what i'm searching is for books very far from the normal adventure (which is one of the reasons i like so much Drizzt's Saga).

    If any real good work is made with unorthodox protagonist (an dragon protagonist, or another supernatural or normally antagonist character) i would really like to know.
  • LadyRhianLadyRhian Member Posts: 14,694
    @kamuizin Eh, there isa series about two tiefling sisters. That's the "Brimstone Angels" series. Paul S. Kemp does a series about a guy who is part shade (and was originally part of the Sembia series). The Sembia series is also good. It's about a family, all of which have secrets: One son is a werewolf, the mother is from the past, one of the servants is a half-sister, the daughter is a thief, and so on.

    Lots of the Harper books have unorthodox protagonists. a thief who might be a shadow demon (or part shadow demon), a gnoll secondary character, and so on.
  • SethDavisSethDavis Member Posts: 1,812
    kamuizin said:

    If any real good work is made with unorthodox protagonist (an dragon protagonist, or another supernatural or normally antagonist character) i would really like to know.

    http://www.krynnwoman.com/Images/Covers/KangV1-DoomBrigade.jpg hits that niche dead on, dragon-esque and the antagonist in other books, though it's not Forgotten Realms, and requires a bit of background knowledge on Dragonlance.

  • kamuizinkamuizin Member Posts: 3,704
    SethDavis said:

    kamuizin said:

    If any real good work is made with unorthodox protagonist (an dragon protagonist, or another supernatural or normally antagonist character) i would really like to know.

    http://www.krynnwoman.com/Images/Covers/KangV1-DoomBrigade.jpg hits that niche dead on, dragon-esque and the antagonist in other books, though it's not Forgotten Realms, and requires a bit of background knowledge on Dragonlance.

    Really intetesting that book @SethDavis, i was focusing in forgotten realms, so at each book i read i know a bit more of forgotten realms landscape, but that could be a nice change.

    @LadyRhian, i will probally go to brimstone angels after i end Drizzt's books, then Elminster. But i have some more purchases ahead yet, as the sundering book(s) (and i intent to purchase all sundering books), companions codex and homecoming.

    Also, i have still to purchase Servants of the Shard Trilogy.


    Well, by the way, from the online purchase of the Hunter's Blade Trilogy, Transitions and Neverwinter Sage, 5 of 10 books already come.


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    In the middle of rereading the 3°saga atm, well let's go on :)!
  • Awong124Awong124 Member Posts: 2,642
    I actually have all of those books, and have read them all except for the last 4, which I haven't gotten around to yet. Your list is missing a book from Paths of Darkness. Paths of Darkness has 4 books, and you're missing the 3rd book Servant of the Shard. Granted, Servant of the Shard isn't really about Drizzt or his companions, but it's still officially the 3rd book in that series.
  • kamuizinkamuizin Member Posts: 3,704
    Awong124 said:

    I actually have all of those books, and have read them all except for the last 4, which I haven't gotten around to yet. Your list is missing a book from Paths of Darkness. Paths of Darkness has 4 books, and you're missing the 3rd book Servant of the Shard. Granted, Servant of the Shard isn't really about Drizzt or his companions, but it's still officially the 3rd book in that series.

    I'm importing them, so they don't come at the same time, as my importer (smuggler? XD) gets them, he send them to me.

    I purchase the first of brimstone angels serie also (did not arive, yet), let's see if that one is good, too.
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