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Points for Ellison's 'Deathbird Stories' please
I have a copy of 'Deathbird Stories' , charcoal boards and a gold
'torch in a window' logo over '1817' printed lower right front. Spine is purple cloth, author, title and publisher are printed in gold. Dust jacket has a price of $8.95 at the top and the number '0275' in line with the price, on the bottom. Publisher is Harper and Row and it is stated as a First Edition, copyright 1975 by Harlan Ellison. There are no number or letter lines. Did I do well? Thanks, Dave |
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"Dave" wrote...
I have a copy of 'Deathbird Stories' , charcoal boards and a gold 'torch in a window' logo over '1817' printed lower right front. Spine is purple cloth, author, title and publisher are printed in gold. Dust jacket has a price of $8.95 at the top and the number '0275' in line with the price, on the bottom. Publisher is Harper and Row and it is stated as a First Edition, copyright 1975 by Harlan Ellison. There are no number or letter lines. Yes, there is--at the bottom of the last page. If your line has a 1, then you've got a first. -- Jon Meyers (To reply, lose your way) |
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On Tue, 15 Mar 2005 22:44:26 -0600, "Jon Meyers"
wrote: "Dave" wrote... I have a copy of 'Deathbird Stories' , charcoal boards and a gold 'torch in a window' logo over '1817' printed lower right front. Spine is purple cloth, author, title and publisher are printed in gold. Dust jacket has a price of $8.95 at the top and the number '0275' in line with the price, on the bottom. Publisher is Harper and Row and it is stated as a First Edition, copyright 1975 by Harlan Ellison. There are no number or letter lines. Yes, there is--at the bottom of the last page. If your line has a 1, then you've got a first. Jon, My copy has a "1" on the last page. I did not think to look at the last page. How often are books marked like this and has marking books become more standardized now, with number/letter lines on the page with the rest of the publisher and Library of Congress information? Thanks, Dave |
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"Dave" wrote...
"Jon Meyers" wrote: "Dave" wrote... I have a copy of 'Deathbird Stories'... There are no number or letter lines. Yes, there is--at the bottom of the last page. If your line has a 1, then you've got a first. My copy has a "1" on the last page. I did not think to look at the last page. How often are books marked like this... Harper & Row used this system from the late 1960s to the mid '70s. Aperture sometimes puts the copyright page (with number line) at the end of the book. Appleton-Century(-Crofts) first printings showed a number 1 on the last page. I think there was a textbook publisher--perhaps Scott-Foresman--that also used a last-page number line for awhile. And, of course, there are many publishers--particularly small presses--that place printing information on a colophon page at the end of the text. And then there are one-offs, like Knopf's US edition of Pavic's Dictionary of the Khazars, with the copyright page at the end of the book; and David Byrne's The New Sins, published in a back-to-back bilingual edition by McSweeney's, with two copyright pages--one in English, one in Spanish--in the middle of the book. So, not common, but not uncommon. ...and has marking books become more standardized now, with number/letter lines on the page with the rest of the publisher and Library of Congress information? Yes, much more standardized--which takes a lot of the fun out of it. -- Jon Meyers (To reply, lose your way) |
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