I discuss Halperin's ARC on my website (proofs part two), reprinted here by
permission:

There's an interesting story behind this book. James L. Halperin is an
expert numismatist, and co-owns a publishing company that published books
about coins. This is his first novel, and he self-published it (by Ivy
Press) in hardcover, reportedly in a run of 12,000 copies, for a cover price
of $22. It garnered a fair amount of attention online (I was one of the
first to mention it on the newsgroups), and Del Rey decided to buy it and
publish it themselves, which they did so for $24 each. I presume it sold
well, as Del Rey also published his second book. In this case, since Del Rey
had bought all of the remaining Ivy Press hardcovers, for the advance
reading copies they simply printed up some new dust jackets (glossy like
ordinary ones), and wrapped them around the Ivy Press books, and also
razored out the title/copyright page. If you didn't remove the DJ, you
wouldn't notice the it. This is the first and only such example I've found.

---Mike
http://www.booktouronline.com

"MindElec" wrote in message
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On Thu, 10 Jul 2003 00:04:46 -0400, "William M. Klimon"
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"Francis A. Miniter" wrote in message
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To see it in trade
paperback confused me even more. I pulled it off the shelf and
discovered the words "Advance Reading Copy - Not for Sale" on the
cover.
A letter from the publisher was on the free front end paper,
announcing
that Dexter, who last published in 1995, had signed with Doubleday.
The
copyright page declares it to be a First Edition and the publishing
date
is October 2003. The back cover contains some information about the
book, the author and marketing of the book.



I found a hardcover ARC at the local thrift today: James L. Halperin,
*The
Truth Machine* (Del Rey 1996) "Preview Reader's Edition", no title page,
"Reader Survey" form on last 2 pages.

I'm seen special advanced (not limited) editions (like Burke's *Cadillac
Jukebox* for the ABA), but I don't recall seeing a hardcover ARC before.


that one is a special case. the book was actually privately published
before del rey bought it. that's why the title page is missing.



robert

"there must be one night in your life that you will remember forever.
The must be one night for everyone. And if you know that the night
is coming on and that this night will be that particular night, then
take it and don't question it and don't talk about it to anyone ever
after that. For if you let it pass it might not come again. Many have
let it pass, many have seen it go by and have never seen another like it,
when all the circumstances of weather, light, moon and time, of night hill
and warm grass and train and town and distance were balanced upon the
trembling of a finger."