The jacket of the 1st printig of Reynal & Hitchcock French edition.
A little bit later than the English edition, the French edition was issued in 1943.
| 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. |
| The color of the cover was different from a printing to another. The prices were $2.00 each. |
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I got a copy of 3rd printing that has blue colored cover. The dust jacket has the address of the publisher "8 West 40th Street, New York" where the publishers was formerly exist. I belive that the dust jucket is not the original 3rd printing but is later one. |
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Recently I got a copy which has no printing number, that is, equal to the 8th or later printing. Confusingly, the dust jacket has the address of the publisher "8 West 40th Street, New York" where the publishers was formerly exist. When they issued 7th printing they had moved to 383 Madison Avenue. I belive that someone combined a later copy and an orphan dust jucket. |
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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 two copies of 5th printing. One of them have the "crow" and the other havn't. The color of the cover-cloth of the later copy is the same as that of sixth printing. It seems likely that the crow survived till the early press of fifth printing. This "crow" dissapeared from the 6th printing and laters.
I got another no-printing-number copy which has gray/bluegray board.
This book is quite the same as the 2nd printing including the "Crow" flying over the mountain. That is, this book is not the later printings.
I guess this book is prototype/early-lot of the 2nd printing, later the publisher decided to add the printing number in accordance with the style of the English version.
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