jingo first edition

[author3]

yeah good idea

 

[SpideyGirl]

On the back of my 'Eric' book is that ISBN number then the only other #'s are the barcode and a smaller barcode with '00299' on top of it? :

 

[SpideyGirl]

We need need of those screen shot things Tony does (like when he was trying to teach me to quote ) but with a scan of a page of the book.

YES! Love a diagram

 

[deldaisy]

If you defintely got it in 1997 then it is almost certainly the first edition because it only came out on the 6th November that year and they printed 120,000 of them, making it the most common of the hardbacks.

It should be printed by Gollanz, the book club edition didn't come out until 1998, and there will be a series of numbers somewhere on the page that includes the ISBN which must have a 1 at the beginning similar to the example shown below

Like this? NOW! WHAT number are you talking about? POINT.

Heres the article

This one POINTS to the numbers you need

 

[SpideyGirl]

It doesn't look like any of those

 

[The Mad Collector]

No that's probably the price on the back cover.

Open the book, near the front you will find a page like the one shown above. Then look for the series of numbers counting up towards the middle of the series and read the lowest number.

 

[SpideyGirl]

It doesn't have one honest. Other than the ISBN there are no other numbers.

 

[Who's Wee Dug]

Spidey on the spine at the bottom does it have the publishers name on it or inside where THE IBSN is.

 

[SpideyGirl]

On the spine it has VG SF. And on back says Gollancz Paperback.

 

[Who's Wee Dug]

Being a P/B it won't be a first.
This is what an ISBN is.

The International Standard Book Number (ISBN) is a unique numeric commercial book identifier based upon the 9-digit Standard Book Numbering (SBN) code ...

And for a more detailed explanation see below.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internatio ... r#Overview

 

[SpideyGirl]

Ha ha, clear as mud now! It doesn't matter, I would never sell them anyway even if some of them were worth a bit unless I fell on really hard times

Edit: just realised what PB meant, god i'm having such a dizzy day Thanks for bearing with me Dug

I'll check some of my hardbacks as that might make more sense now

 

[meerkat]

Darwin's Watch is excellent and I actually understood some of the science too!

 

[Who's Wee Dug]

I got lazy with the typing Spidy.

I am not a number I'm a free book I wont be stamped, drawn on, filed away well OK maybe by someone called Pterry.

 

[SpideyGirl]

Neh problemo Dug!

So if it doesn't have a string of numbers then it won't be first edition, is that right?