GR 1st edition, he thinks

[Arne Herl�v Petersen]

Quite easy to tell.
On the copyright page it says:
"Printed in USA by the Colonial Press, Inc."'
If it says nothing under that, it's a first.
Otherwise it says "Sixth Printing July 1973" or whatever.
Not quite 1800, though, even if it's a first. Ex-lib. is bad news, even
if it looks immaculate.
Recently I got an ex-library first for 75 dollars on ebay.


Soma611 at aol.com wrote:
> 
> A local library is having this ongoing book sale. As the staff there
> will
> periodically kick books out, I idle on in from time to time    A few
> weeks
> ago, tilted there on the top shelf, I saw a copy of TP's GR.   I think
> this
> copy may be a Viking Press 1st edition (hard cover), but I'm not
> really sure
> how to tell if this is so. This book was never circulated.   It is in
> great
> shape.  A friend of mine is married to a librarian and he sez that
> sometimes
> books just stay on back shelves for years and never get mixed into the
> flow.
> No library markings whatsoever.   My pupils went dollar-sign-shaped
> the other
> day. An e-bay transaction for a mint condition copy of
> what-I-think-I-have
> went for 18 hundred big ones.  Swear to Tom, I bought this thing for 5
> cents.
>   Guess I'll just keep reading my Penguin paperback edition, when I
> need a
> fix, until I find out for sure.