On Tuesday, August 20, 2013 10:49:19 AM UTC-4, SpanishMill wrote:

And this is a first printing also! there are a couple of online sources
to verify that during the years 1973 to 1983, when the publisher HBJ did
not use the "A" but used "First Edition/BCDE" to indicate the First
Printing.


Yes, I looked at a bunch of my Georges Simenon mysteries, and they're all that way.