Just a quick note to say I’m still actively seeking every Fighting Fantasy book (and spin off). Amongst my latest acquisitions are the following:
Spellbreaker is FF 53, which also happens to be the first book that was published after I came to America. It is the highest numbered original book I now own (I do have the 2005 reprint of Legend Of Zagor, FF 54, and the 2005 new release Eye Of The Dragon).
Demonstealer is the second FF novel. It is the sequel to The Trolltooth Wars, which read a lot better than I expected.
Dungeoneer is the first of the ‘Advanced Fighting Fantasy’ series. This is basically a fully blown RPG set in the FF world, much more complicated than the rules set forth by the RPG guidebooks Fighting Fantasy and The Riddling Reaver (both of which I have). This book is particularly impressive, not least because it is trade format and over 400 pages in length!
My collection now includes every book from FF 1 – 54 in one version or another, and Eye Of The Dragon. I also own the full Sorcery! series (original prints, excluding spellbook), all USA Dell imprints (FF 1 – 21), and various others mentioned above.
From here on completing the collection will be tough! Some of the higher number books (notable FF57 Magehunter) fetch well over a hundred on ebay in the rare instances they are offered. The two followups to Dungeoneer (namely Blacksand! and Allansia!) I have never seen for sale, and the same applies to the third novel (Shadowmaster). I’m also frustratingly unable to find any hardcover versions of Titan or Out Of The Pit (the atlas and monster guide respectively).
But I shall perservere!
