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still life a.s. byatt
Hi everyone!
I'd first like to thank Francis for the Hemingway question. I have a paperback copy of A.S. Byatt's Still Life published by Collier Books. Is it normal to have pages 375 to 384 at the start of the book or is this a misprint. A friend of mine told me about another book by a mystery writer whose chapters were completely out of sync, forcing the publsiher to recall the entire first printing. cheers, Robert |
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still life a.s. byatt
Poet's Pulpit wrote:
Hi everyone! I'd first like to thank Francis for the Hemingway question. I have a paperback copy of A.S. Byatt's Still Life published by Collier Books. Is it normal to have pages 375 to 384 at the start of the book or is this a misprint. A friend of mine told me about another book by a mystery writer whose chapters were completely out of sync, forcing the publsiher to recall the entire first printing. cheers, Robert Hi Robert, I guess there are a lot of the regulars on vacation. Unfortunately, I do not have a copy of that particular book. So I cannot give you an authoritative answer. I did look on used.addall.com and I did not find any indication of unusual binding. I understand that the binding is, predictably, a glued binding and that the book is in fact 384 pages long. It sounds as though the last 5 sheets of the book became unglued at some point and were reglued to the front instead of the back. Alternatively, during the binding process, these sheets could have become out of order with respect to the rest of the book and originally bound in the wrong place. That might make it a unique event. Don't count on that raising the value of the book. A few weeks ago, we had a discussion contrasting coins and stamps, whose value seems to be enhanced by errors, with books, whose value seems to be diminished by errors - unless the error becomes a "point of issue" allowing bibliographers to say that one "state" was prior to another. Besides, it is a paperback, and only paperbacks that were "true firsts" tend to be worth anything. [An extreme example is Joyce's Ulysses.] Francis A. Miniter |
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still life a.s. byatt
Thanks for the reply,
After the misprinted pages the book is fine. It starts with the title page and ends with the about the author page. The pages at the beginning of the book are also at the end of the book where the should be so I don't know what to make of this copy. Sometimes books use passages at the beginning to entice the reader and that's what I thought it might be, but I don't think this is the case. Cheers, Robert |
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