AtG Printing defect? - upside down binding

[gabriel rosenkoetter]

I just skimmed through my amassed November digests (before switching
back to regular-mail mode, since I picked up a copy of AtG
yesterday), and I didn't see any mention of a curious printing /
binding defect that I assume was not On Purpose.

Pulling the dust cover off my copy (purchased at a Borders Books at
14th and Chestnut in Philadelphia, PA, if anybody cares), I found,
at first glance, that the title on the spine runs the European way
(left margin towards the bottom of the book's pages, bottom margin
towards the front cover)... and "The Penguin Press" is upside down
at the top. Tht is, the binding (or at least the spine) was put on
upside down.

Is this a widespread first-print defect or should I go back and
get a second copy as a Collector's Item, seeing as I'm incorrigibly
scribbling and underlining in this one?

-- 
gabriel rosenkoetter
gr at eclipsed.net
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