Overall, the series has re-written Japanese record for first print manga publication 9 times with Volumes 24, 25, 26, 27, 56, 57, 59, 60, 61 and 63.
Mr. Crater raised about $1,200 for his first print run of 3,500 copies.
If sheer weight and bulk were not a deterrent, the €59 (£44) price tag for the first print of 5,000 copies surely will be.
He and Mr. Heffner, who is a creative director at J. Crew, paid for the first print run of 1,000 copies themselves.
"I have recorded my heartbeat in two different situations and used special software to visualize it in distinctive abstract forms, which are the basis of my prints… The recording for the first print took place in a quiet situation.
Here is it how it works: Instead of filing financial reports with the Federal Election Commission by a push of a button, senators and candidates for the Senate first print their records on paper.
The tight-lipped Mr. Brown has revealed little else about the book, but clearly Doubleday is expecting a sensation and has ordered four million copies for the first printing.
The jacket art for the first printing of The Great Gatsby, a disembodied face above a dark blue Manhattan skyline by Francis Cugat, is one of the most famous cover illustrations in American literature.
A svelte 400-plus pages, written by two young architectural enthusiasts who paid for its first printing, it was given free to the members at the American Institute of Architects convention in honor of that group's 100th anniversary.
"In book publishing," he said, "I could look at a book and say, 'This book you can estimate X number of copies sold,' and you'd probably want X plus 1,000 for your first printing, and if that sells out, you go back and reprint.
The original manuscript of "The Murders in the Rue Morgue" which was used for its first printing in Graham's Magazine was discarded in a wastebasket.
