Need Quote: Help with Sirius's Motorcyle - More

justcarol67 justcarol67 at yahoo.com
Fri Mar 12 07:35:19 UTC 2004


No: HPFGUIDX 92787

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Shaun Hately" <drednort at a...>
wrote:
> 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 <snip>
> 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.
> 
Shaun, what are the other numbers? 0 1 2 3 4/0 or something like that?
the smallest number is the year of publication, which ought to be 2000
based on what you've said.

Thanks,
Carol

P.S. If you've already answered this in another post, ignore this one.





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