Hi all,
I recently got a copy of JD MacDonald's _The Deep Blue
Good-By_ at a used bookstore. Decided if I'm going to read
Travis McGee, I'm going to start at the beginning. Anyway,
it's a Gold Medal pb, k1405, orig. price 40c. It *appears* to
be a first edition (PBO), but booksellers online have
*conflicting* information about what to look for in a true
first edition. One guy says that two dots following the pub.
date information indicates a later printing (mine has said
dots) while another guy (or girl, or woman, I suppose) says
something about an "End Print Number" and how the true first
*doesn't* have one on the final page of text (mine does not
have one). So according to one guy I've got a true first, and
acc. to the other, a second printing of the first. I told you
this was a nerdy question. Does anyone out there know
anything about authenticating Gold Medal pbs?
Many thanks, Michael
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