Crystal Fradette wrote: > No. _Lord of Castle > Black_ was out of stock! My mind flipped with 2 questions: 1) Why did > they sell book 1 and 3 and not 2? and 2) Who buys just book 2 and not > the other ones? I bought the other I don't necessarily buy all three books of a series at the same store. What was interesting was when I went to a remains book store and noticed some Brust books - parts of this series in different parts of the store. Didn't find the whole series though. It has to be tough selling hardbound books that are part of a series - most people don't want to buy part 2 of 3 in hardbound unless they already have part 1 in hardbound. I will buy books and wait until I have all three to buy. One time I didn't do so, I ended up with an unmatched pair of The Wizard Knight. I don't buy all of Gene Wolfe's books, even with Steven's blurbs on the cover. But when the paperback of The Knight came out, but the paperback of The Wizard was not yet out, I bought the mismatched pair.