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Question about Charlotte's Web -- E.B. White
Hello all,
I was estate shopping today and came across an old copy of Charlotte's Web by E.B. White. It has a dust jacket and seems to be in nice shape. I could not tell if it was a first edition because "FIRST EDITION" was not written on the copyright page. I know nothing about book collecting, so I decided to look it up on ebay. I now know that the first edition states "first edition". My copyright page seemed different than the hi dollar ones AND the low dollar ones. So, I looked up book collecting online. 8 hours later I write all of you b/c I would like to know how to figure out if this book is special in any way. Here's what's different: The true first has copyright information immediately followed by, "FIRST EDITION" and below "FIRST EDITION" is "X-X" (can't read the number/letter on the pic). The Library of Congress info is at the bottom of the page, separated from the copyright information. The cheaper ones seem to have the copyright info and LOC info in one big paragraph and no "X-X". My edition does not have "FIRST EDITION" on its copyright page. It has the copyright information at the top followed immediately by "K-G", and the Libarary of Congress information is at the bottom. Ugh!!!!! I would be very grateful if someone told me what this means and how I may do research this myself in the future. Thanks! Micky |
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Micky wrote:
I would be very grateful if someone told me what this means and how I may do research this myself in the future. People will generally be able to help you better if you said who the publisher was (Harper and Brothers). They had a complicated system, whereby the first letter stands for the month and the second letter stands for the year. The true first should have I-B, the I standing for September, and the B for 1952. Your copy, with K-G, was published in October, 1957. To do this kind of thing yourself you need some reference tools. Ahearn, Book Collecting, has an appendix of different publishers' methods of indicating the first edition/printing, and is a useful starting-point for finding out about the subject. You can often get a lot of information by reading sellers' descriptions on sites like ABE (http://dogbert.abebooks.com/abe/BookSearch). -- John http://rarebooksinjapan.com |
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