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Dear John: When a trilogy (or any number of books in the same series) gets a limited lettered and/or numbered run, does having the same letter/number in all of the books increase the value of it? Thank you for your time, Bobby John replies: Hi Bobby, In response to your question. "I don't think so." We have a lot of customers who collect the same number or letter in a series, but I have found no evidence that such a feature increases the value. Limited edition sets are usually assembled when a third or final book is published in a series. At that point, the publisher pulls from remaining stock to assemble the set. But do take care. We recently bought some set of a Ken Follett series (in a signed box). The individual books were not signed, and one of them wasn't even a first edition. Hope this helps. John Ask John at: [email protected] Read articles about book collecting Read John's answers to book collecting questions Receive our Book Collecting PDFs and newsletters Sign up for our Book Club Follow us on Twitter Follow us on Facebook Watch our Videos