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Help Identifying The Shining Edition.

Posted: Wed Mar 13, 2013 11:32 pm
by systemcrashoverride
Picked up a few books including The Gunslinger Grant second printing, and in the same lot I also got an edition of The Shining that I can't identify for the life of me. Before anyone goes down that road, I do not believe it to be a first edition, but I can't figure out what it is.

Has dust jacket, Price in flap is T.S $15.95
Copyright page says Copyright (c) 1977 by Stephen King
All Rights Reserved
Printed in the United States of America

Dust jacket does NOT say Book Club Edition, and the book is tan board with black binding, not green/darkgreen.

In case it matters the book was purchased in Canada, on the off chance the dust jacket is a bizarre Canadian thing.

Has anyone seen an edition like this?

Re: Help Identifying The Shining Edition.

Posted: Thu Mar 14, 2013 4:10 am
by jhanic
What is the code on the inner margin of page 447? It appears you have a later printing of the book. The code tells when the book was printed.

John

Re: Help Identifying The Shining Edition.

Posted: Thu Mar 14, 2013 10:10 am
by systemcrashoverride
Hi John,

The code in the gutter was Z32. Can you identify the edition/print date with that?

Re: Help Identifying The Shining Edition.

Posted: Fri Mar 15, 2013 12:28 am
by Mr. Rabbit Trick
Code Z32 = 2nd week of August 1984.

Re: Help Identifying The Shining Edition.

Posted: Fri Mar 15, 2013 4:42 am
by systemcrashoverride
The next question then becomes, does this edition hold any value? Or is it first edition or nothing?

Re: Help Identifying The Shining Edition.

Posted: Fri Mar 15, 2013 7:13 am
by jhanic
It's not a first edition as we all define it. The first has special identifiers that this edition lacks. It's a good reading copy.

John