First Editions

[psychic_serpent]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, GulPlum <hp at p...> wrote:
> (Bear in mind, for instance, that most hardback copies of GoF in 
> bookshops even now are first editions; as far as I'm aware, a 
> second edition hardback wasn't published until after the first 
> movie came out).

No, at the rate these books sell I doubt there are any more first 
editions in the bookshops, or even second or third, plus she really 
wanted to correct some Flints.  My son, for instance, has a US GoF 
purchased over thirty months ago with the wand-order mistake, and my 
daughter's copy, bought about six months later (when he wearied of 
her borrowing his copy all the time) has the wand-order fixed.  
There's no way my daughter's book can be considered 'first edition' 
US, and it was purchased two years ago.  My UK copy, purchased 
through Amazon before the first film was released, also has the wand-
order corrected, so that's not a first edition either. (The numbers 
in the front are 30 29 28 27 26 25 24.)  My UK copy of PoA, bought 
at the same time (boxed set) also doesn't have a mistake that's in 
my son's US version: in "The Quidditch Final" at one point the 
Slytherin Keeper is called the Slytherin Seeker (the mistake is 
obvious); in my UK version it has the correct player position.

--Barb

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