[HPforGrownups] Wand Order (*that* old saw)

[Penny & Bryce Linsenmayer]

No: HPFGUIDX 11044

Hi --

Snuffles MacGoo wrote:

> Yesterday I visited a friend and wound up talking about HP - No <g> I
> had a look at her _first edition_ GoF and it has the corrected wand
> order.
> (dumfounded surprise). I nearly fell of the sofa in shock. There was
> no errata  and it was marked First aust ed (just like mine) on the
> front page. How wrong/sneaky is that?
>

<assuming Hermione-like voice>:  *All* (repeat -- *all*) the Harry
Potter books in print at this point, published in whatever language and
by whatever publisher, are First Editions.  Every single solitary one of
them.

The *value* is related to which *printing* you have.  The print run can
be determined from the same page as the publication info.  Each
publisher does it slightly differently, but you should see a string of
numbers across the bottom.  One example:

10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1      00 01 02 03 04

The above is an example of 1st edition, 1st printing of GoF (Scholastic
-- US).

It seems that the wand order passage was corrected "around" the 9th
printing in the US and the 12th printing in the UK.

I was at a party last night and easily found a group of others who had
read or were reading HP.  One woman said that she & her husband had
ordered GoF on pre-order from amazon.  Her husband got to like page 253
and suddenly it skipped back to pages 155-157 and then ahead to pg 553.
So, it was missing a huge section in the middle.  She said she'd never
seen anything like it: he headed straight for his car & tore out all
over town to get another copy.  It seems like the publication rush also
affected simple printing compilation & binding on some of them.  Glad it
wasn't me!

Penny


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