Francis A. Miniter wrote:
On 2/1/2013 1:30 PM, wrote:
Howdy -I have copy of John Berendt's Midnight in the Garden of Good
and Evil. The copyright page has no number line. It is copyright
@1994 by John Brendt. ISBN 0-679-42922-0. Manufactured in the United
States of America. There is no price on the cover, or anywhere else.
388 pages. Published by Random House. Dust cover on back has a small
white rectangle at the bottom right with the number 05013. Can you
tell what edition this copy is? Thank You, alan olson.


Hi Alan,

That is a book club edition. The signals are the following:

1. No edition or printing information on the copyright page
(usually, but not this time, it is important to know the publisher
because each uses different methods of denoting printings)

2. The lack of a price on the dust jacket

3. The presence of a five digit number on the back panel of the dust
jacket

4. The square (or other shaped) imprint on the back cover of the book


All that confirms it is a BCE.

Here is a quick guide to the methods of identifying first printings of
various publishing houses: http://www.cars101.com/firstid.html


Francis A. Miniter


Oh, excellent!