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I'm sorry Speclin. There is still one more round!

Have you read the book? It's so much better, it's the book that got me started reading!

Hi - interesting and uselful information- thank you. I had a question you might answer for me- I had another ebayer send me a message about first editions, and it was his opinion that it could not be a first edition if the isbn # was on the outside of the dj. Even thought the copyright page has a full number line and a price on the inside dj, he says this can't be a true first edition. I would appreciate your opinion on this issue? Or anyone else who has an opinion on this - please jump in. Thank you.

I also collect books and i know that Stephen King books also use a different sequence of numbers to identify a first edition & first printing on some of his but not all of them. It get real tricky. Some do use the 10-1 stystem, some do not.

I have had the same expereinces on many occasions, learning the language for book collecting takes years of research. The stephen king books to tend to get tricky, because of the different publisher's used when his books first started being printed.

yup
I have a friend who is an aa nut
he collects all the printings
and any and all lit connected in some way to aa
and alcoholism

but as to most sought after books by collectors

then I would have to say

shakspheres first folios
cantabury tales first ever printing by chaucer
and the grandaddy of them all the gutemburg bible
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and the hammer of witches
to name a few

almost all copies of these books are institutionlized
when a copy comes up for auction at christies or sothbeys
its pure madness
and nobody really knows when the hammer will fall
but garunteed a new price record will be set for these books

Not a Problem, I know I was baffeled when i first encountered them!

Thanks for the explanation on remainder marks. I sure did not know what it meant!

24-7crafter (ebay)

Your welcome! That's a great find! Cheers!

Excellent! but should it not be 'a lot' rather than 'allot'?regards
vvarad

Very clear, complete and concise explanation - didn't make me feel stupid for asking the question.

I knew nothing of remainder marks, now I realise I have seen many of them, without realising their significance. Your guide was concise and informative....many thanks.

On your Guide to the AD&D Deities and Demigods, you mispelled Moorcock's character, calling him Elic; it is Elric.

Further, the book is a revision and expansion upon the earlier D&D supplement _Gods, Demigods and Heroes_ for the little brown/white box edition of D&D.

You also don't make clear that the 3rd edition is not actually a revision, but a very different sort of supplement.

The AD&D version is a bestiary and/or catalogue of powerful figures, with some nods to playing the clerics of these figures. It provides little guidance to creating new powers.

The D&D 3E version is a guide to creating Deities and Demigods, potentially as Player Characters. It actually owes as much, if not more, to the D&D _Immortals_ and _Wrath of the Immortals_ boxed sets than to the AD&D Deities and Demigods. (In short, the similarity of title is not indicative of lineal descent.)

otherwise, a pretty good tool.

You say "The purpose of the remainder mark is when a store does not sell a book they mark the bottom or top edges. The remainder mark is put onto the book and returned to the publisher to make room for new inventory." That may be true, but in my 35 years in the book business, both wholesale and retail, I've never known of a retailer(store)who puts remainder marks on books. As far as I know, those marks are put on books by wholesalers or distributors to PREVENT stores from returning the books for credit. Once a retailer has bought a remainder, it is not returnable to the publisher or distributor. The same concept applies to records and CDs, although there they are called "cutouts". There may be different distribution channels, though, of which I am not aware, that return books to the publisher in the manner you state.

Hi,
You say in your review of George R.R. Martin's "A Game of Thrones" that, among other things, a true 1st/1st edition will state "first American Edition."

I have a true 1st/1st print and nowhere does this statement appear on the copyright page (or anywhere else that I could find). The exact statement is "Printed in the United States of America", located immediately above the 10...1 line.

(I tried to magnify your photo but it turned too hazy to see the small print on the copyright page.)

Regards.