Philosopher's Stone Edition Question.

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No: HPFGUIDX 59197

Scott:

Mine which is not a first edition (although I'm not sure how one 
knows) has a 10 9 at the bottom of the publishing info page. Does 
this mean it's the 10th printing of the 9th edition or something of 
the sort? 

Me (Bill):

The first printing of any edition will have a line with:

10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1

on the publication data page.  When more books of that edition are 
printed, the leftmost number is removed, thus the fifth printing of 
that edition would be:

10 9 8 7 6 5

I just looked at my books.  For PS I have:

20 19 18 17 16 15 14

For CoS I have:

10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3

For PoA I have:

10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1

For GoF I have:

10 9 8 7 6

So my copies are the 14th, 3rd, 1st and 6th printings, respectively.

As far as I know, all of the HP books are still on their 'first 
edition'.  Changes have been made between printings (usually 
correcting typos, etc.) but none of the changes have been extensive 
enough to justify the term 'second edition', which today usually 
means that the text has been heavily altered.

Bill