[HPforGrownups] Re: "One more death"

[Muridae]

No: HPFGUIDX 32339

cindysphynx wrote:

>Margaret wrote:
>
>> The text of the American edition may actually be earlier.  Recall
>> that GoF was published simultaneously in the UK and the US to
>> avoid undermining the US edition with UK imports by people who
>> Couldn't Wait. ("Who, us?" she asks innocently.)  If that's so,
>> Rowling may actually have had =more= time to do small fixes on
>> the UK version before it hit the presses.
>>
>> Or, of course, the UK publishing house may have had a
>> sharper-eyed editor.
>
>
>OK, we really have to get to the bottom of this.  My contribution is
>that my U.S. edition (purchased this spring) says "murder."  My UK
>edition (purchased fall 2000) says "curse."
>
>Does anyone have an early UK edition or any early U.S. edition?  What
>do the paperback versions say?  Does anyone even care?

My two editions are:

1) UK deluxe hardback version issued by Bloomsbury in the UK a few 
months after the original children's cover hardback. I would have bought 
it in the autumn (fall) of 2000, since it was definitely on the shelves 
in time for the Christmas market. It either came out at the same time as 
the UK paperback editions or ahead of them.

It says it is a first edition, and gives the 2000 copyright date with no 
further qualifications.

2) UK "adult cover" paperback issued by Bloomsbury. This was bought 
earlier this month when I decided that I wanted to reread the books 
during my commute (the deluxe hardbacks are nice looking books, but 
they're too big to be easily luggable). That probably makes it as new as 
it's currently possible to get, and probably from the batch that got 
printed up to meet the rise in demand generated by the movie.

Copyright information gives the 2000 copyright date, plus a "this 
edition first published in 2001" that indicates that it's a revised 
version of the text (as I mentioned, it contains the revised wand 
order). It's the 10th impression.

Both versions use "one more curse".

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Muridae