tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5448581132479481740.post1581756970642525254..comments2024-03-25T11:29:25.356-04:00Comments on Existential Ennui: When is a First Edition Not a First Edition? 2: The Honourable Schoolboy by John le CarréNick Jones (Louis XIV, the Sun King)http://www.blogger.com/profile/17716508525331235684noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5448581132479481740.post-48143690423156574772022-08-28T05:36:51.775-04:002022-08-28T05:36:51.775-04:00Thanks. This is very useful. It will help me watch...Thanks. This is very useful. It will help me watch out for export editions. I was onto BCA (why oh why did the publishers arrange anything with BCA). At a National Trust bookshop yesterday I saw a copy of the book you are discussing here - priced £2. I had noticed elsewhere in the shop those tell-tale signs that ‘they know what they’re doing and there’ll be no bargains here’, so I left the £2 copy thinking they wouldn’t have missed a true first. When I got home I found out from you that there’s a version with maps. Theirs didn’t have maps. Fair play; they at least priced their copy honestly.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5448581132479481740.post-22816717917868719302021-10-30T12:38:32.246-04:002021-10-30T12:38:32.246-04:00I was very interested to read your clarification o...I was very interested to read your clarification of the Honourable Schoolboy 1st Edition Conundrum!<br />I have 3 different copies of this 1st Edition 1st Printing. <br />My Real 1st Edition has Blue Cloth Binding with Gold Spine Lettering and Map endpapers with priced dustjacket. <br />My Second 1st Edition copy is the same but with price clipped and with Hodder and Stoughton US $10.95 price sticker on back of dustjacket. This copy could well be the format for export 1st Edition! <br />My third 1st Edition copy has black cloth binding with silver lettering No Maps on Endpapers and no price on dustjacket and paper quality seemed inferior. This corresponds to your description of the 1st Book Club Edition. Sunbeam64https://www.blogger.com/profile/17306165960035410308noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5448581132479481740.post-88169881051819589382010-09-25T09:46:48.235-04:002010-09-25T09:46:48.235-04:00If you need help taking these to the charity shop ...If you need help taking these to the charity shop I don't mind doing this for you... <br />or, try flogging them to one of the may Lewes bookshops!?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5448581132479481740.post-21938003636339817162010-09-24T12:26:12.204-04:002010-09-24T12:26:12.204-04:00Moscow Rules, dear boy. Moscow Rules.Moscow Rules, dear boy. Moscow Rules.Rolsnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5448581132479481740.post-41760571388813562142010-09-24T11:35:47.878-04:002010-09-24T11:35:47.878-04:00I was unsure about the 'no price' thing fo...I was unsure about the 'no price' thing for a while; I've got a copy of Kingsley Amis' Russian Hide & Seek, bought online as a first edition, that has no price on the flap, and for a good while I thought maybe that's just something some publishers do sometimes. But no – as that Gavin Lyall example in particular shows, if there's no price, it's BCA. I'm not even sure these 'minor difference' BCA editions would've been printed at the same time as the first edition. There's no way of knowing even that.Nick Jones (Louis XIV, the Sun King)https://www.blogger.com/profile/17716508525331235684noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5448581132479481740.post-75842657981054078302010-09-24T10:28:19.000-04:002010-09-24T10:28:19.000-04:00Well, while I knew that if I was looking at a spin...Well, while I knew that if I was looking at a spine saying 'BCA' it was a bookclub edition, I had no idea about the 'no price on the flap' indicator. As you said yesterday, when a dj has been price clipped, that's a real can/worms situation. Given that one assumes the bookclub edition would have presumably been printed at the same time as the first printing (indeed, under the dustjacket *is* the first printing), then surely the bookclub 'variant' is rarer than the 'true first'? Mind you, even as I type this, I know which version I'd prefer to have...Withnail Bookshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13675228413751366562noreply@blogger.com