The jacket of the 1st printig of Reynal & Hitchcock French edition.
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The French versions are rarer than the English version for their printing run numbers were less than that of English versions. The prices of the first to sixth printings were $2.00. The price of 7th printing was $3.00. I do not yet settle the price of none-numbered printing(s). |
| Except the first and the last printings, the printing numbers were pressed at the bottom of the backside of the title page. This example is the 7th printing. |
Four copies of the 1st printings.
Different colors of the 1st printings.
The 2nd printings.
The 3rd printings.
The 4th printings.
The 5th printings.
The 6th printings.
The 7th printings.
The none numbered version(s) .
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[I have/had 3 more samples of peach color; 3 copies of autographed limited edition and 1 copy gifted to someone.]
(Of corse they have the "Flying Crow")
From the first printing to 4th printing of Reynal & Hitchcock's French edition, there is a black contamination as if a bird is flying (on the page 63). I have 5 copies of 5th printing. Three of them have the "crow" and the others havn't. It seems likely that the crow survived till the early press of fifth printing. This "crow" dissapeared from the late 5th printing and laters.
The 1st printings were poor sellers. [ Thirty thousands copies of English version and 7 thousands copies of French version were shipped within a half year. (After Steycy Schiff) ]
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