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| 16th Jun 2020, 4:26 PM | #1 REPORT | |
 | 23skidoo Member since Jul 2014 4081 Points | At first I thought this was a weird error, but I'm seeing it enough now that it appears not to be. That's when you have a Pocket Books paperback from the 1970s and it says "2nd printing" on the copyright page and gives month and year - and that date is earlier than the date given for the FIRST printing. An example (which I will upload shortly) is Richard Brautigan's The Hawkline Monster. 2nd printing is dated August 1976, yet right above it says Pocket Book edition published October 1976. This was also frequently the case with a series of books I recently indexed by Paul Kenyon called The Baroness (The Ecstasy Connection, Sonic Slave, etc); the second printing is dated before the first. Any idea why this was the case? Was this because they ordered a 2nd print run in advance of releasing the book, in anticipation of strong sales? I have no idea if any other publishers did this, and I have not noticed this with Pocket Books releases from the 60s and 80s (and onwards) that I've indexed, so it appears to have been temporary, whatever it was. |
| 17th Jun 2020, 2:06 PM | #2 REPORT | |
 | TopPopper Member since Mar 2013 2612 Points | A guess... According to Wiki, The Hawkline Monster was first published in 1974 by Simon & Schuster. So - 1st print = 1974; re-printed August 1976 - so that's the second printing, as stated. Then printed again in October 1976 as a "Pocket Book". That's the third edition overall. Maybe the second printings of all these either brought them to paperback for the first time, or brought them to the same publisher as the Pocket Books. Hence the Pocket Books reprint is based on the second edition, which is why they refer to it. Total guess. |
| 17th Jun 2020, 3:24 PM | #3 REPORT | |
| 23skidoo Member since Jul 2014 4081 Points | @TopPopper That's not what the copyright page says. Copyright page acknowledges the first Simon & Schuster edition as 1974, but the first Pocket Books edition as October 1976 - and the Pocket Books printing I have is listed as the second printing of that edition (not the 1974 one), and shows August. The copyright pages for the Baroness novels nearly all show "first edition" dated several months after "second printing" date. Very weird. |
| 17th Jun 2020, 3:47 PM | #4 REPORT | |
| TopPopper Member since Mar 2013 2612 Points | What you said accords with what I said - I think. Its a bit confusing. Is there a scan of one of the publishing history pages somewhere, to see the exact wording? |
| 18th Jun 2020, 6:57 PM | #5 REPORT | |
| 23skidoo Member since Jul 2014 4081 Points | I took a photo of the copyright page for the book Black Gold, but can't seem to find how to upload images to the forum. How do I do that? I only know how to link to images for files already uploaded as part of indexing. |
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