UK first editions?

[heiditandy]

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From: heiditandy
Subject: Re: UK first editions?
Reply To: [Yahoo! #4758] UK first editions?
Date: 7/21/00 11:01 am  (ET)

What matters is having a First Edition, First Printing, which means
that on the title page, in addition to saying First Edition, it will
also have a string of numbers like this:
10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1
that *1* has to be there for it to be a first printing.
I will say that if anyone finds a first printing of any of the first
3 books (UK or US) in a regular book store please let me know : )
(and I'm sure a dozen or so other people would say the same)
I have first edition/first printings of PoA (US), CoS (US) and GoF (US &
UK) but even though my copy of PoA was sent from amazon.co.uk the day
it was published, I only have a second printing - the first print run
was only 10,000 books.