[HPforGrownups] Re: Need Quote: Help with Sirius's Motorcyle - More

[Shaun Hately]

No: HPFGUIDX 92715

On 11 Mar 2004 at 0:00, justcarol67 wrote:

> Also, if you look at earlier posts, Neri said that his *electronic*
> version had "get this bike away" but Shaun Hately's Bloomsbury
> paperback (or hardback?) has the same wording as the US edition: "I'll
> be takin' Sirius his bike back."

My copy is a hardback and it definitely has this wording.

OK - I'm going to put down all the information I can identify as 
possibly dating the book, in case it helps someone work out what's 
going on.

My edition is definitely British, definitely Bloomsbury (some of 
the more recent books have been printed in Australia even though 
except for a statement on the Copyright page, they seem identical 
to the British editions - but this copy of Philosopher's Stone is 
definitely British).

It has the Thomas Taylor cover illustration, and the area behind 
the words Harry Potter are yellow (I have seen gold there on some 
editions, I think).

On the copyright/publication details page, there is no reference to 
a publication number. Simply a statement that it was First 
Published in Great Britain in 1997 and is Copyright 1997

It mentions that Harry Potter is trademarked to Warner Brothers, 
2000 - so it dates from after that.

The following numbers also appear:

26 27 28 29 30

I seem to recall reading at some stage that the first number listed 
there indicates the printing number - so this would seem to be the 
26th print run.




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