I just need to work backwards and match a DT set to my Charlie the Choo Choo... Should be easy enough, right? RIGHT?
I just need to work backwards and match a DT set to my Charlie the Choo Choo... Should be easy enough, right? RIGHT?
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Easy peasy.Originally Posted by Theli
In The Wastelands Jake's copy of Charlie the Choo-Choo is a 4th printing.But what made the 4th edition so special??? Why not the 1st edition?We all know that the only edition that has any real collectability is the TRUE....
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BUTWhile checking on this information I discovered that in the TRUE 1st edition of The Wastelands GRANT 1991 the CTCC was 1st published in 1952 while the U.K. 1st edition JAN 1992 lists the CTCC copyright date as 1942.
Just what we need.....
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They really wanted to mess with collectors with this title.
There are other worlds than these....In The Wastelands Jake's copy of Charlie the Choo-Choo is a 4th printing.But what made the 4th edition so special??? Why not the 1st edition?
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BUT
Just what we need.....
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"A real limited edition, far from being an expensive autograph stapled to a novel, is a treasure. And like all treasures do, it transforms the responsible owner into a caretaker, and being a caretaker of something as fragile and easily destroyed as ideas and images is not a bad thing but a good one...and so is the re-evaluation of what books are and what they do that necessarily follows." - Stephen King
I think most people in the US got numbers over 500. I got mine on December 19 and it was number 620.
Did anyone here get a number under 500?
Easy peasy.
The absence of a thing, this can be as deadly as the presence. The absence of air, eh?
The absence of water? The absence of anything else we're addicted to.
- Baron Vladimir Harkonnen
Yes, number 164.
Mine is 252. The potential is real.I think most people in the US got numbers over 500. I got mine on December 19 and it was number 620.
Did anyone here get a number under 500?
Easy peasy.
I have #16.
Lilja
Enough teasing:
WHEN HE WAS SURE he was over the current fit (although an occasional snicker still rumbled up his throat like an aftershock) and his father would be safely locked away in his study with his cigarettes, his Scotch, his papers, and his little bottle of white powder, Jake went back to his desk, turned on the study lamp, and opened Charlie the Choo-Choo. He glanced briefly at the copyright page and saw it had originally been published in 1919; his copy was from the third printing. He looked at the back, but there was no information at all about Beryl Evans, the book's author.
Jake turned back to the beginning, looked at the picture of a grin*ning, blonde-haired man sitting in the cab of a steam locomotive, consid*ered the proud grin on the man's face, and then began to read.
Bob Brooks was an engineer for the Mid-World Railway Company, on the St. Louis to Topeka run. Engineer Bob was the best trainman The Mid-World Railway Company ever had, and Charlie was the best train!
I started a thread for the numbers if anyone wants to share them!
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WHEN HE WAS SURE he was over the current fit (although an occasional snicker still rumbled up his throat like an aftershock) and his father would be safely locked away in his study with his cigarettes, his Scotch, his papers, and his little bottle of white powder, Jake went back to his desk, turned on the study lamp, and opened Charlie the Choo-Choo. He glanced briefly at the copyright page and saw it had originally been published in 1919; his copy was from the third printing.(That he had re-ordered from Cemetery Dance because his favorite slip-cased Waterstones edition had been chewed up & water damaged in the mail before he had received It but his Beryl signed print hung in it's frame on the wall behind him.) He looked at the back, but there was no information at all about Beryl Evans, the book's author.
Now the truth be Known.
Jake turned back to the beginning, looked at the picture of a grin*ning, blonde-haired man sitting in the cab of a steam locomotive, consid*ered the proud grin on the man's face, and then began to read.
Bob Brooks was an engineer for the Mid-World Railway Company, on the St. Louis to Topeka run. Engineer Bob was the best trainman The Mid-World Railway Company ever had, and Charlie was the best train!
^Damn can't give you rep for that! Anyone got me covered?
Done and done!
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UPDATE Grant's 1st edition 1996/97 Wizards and Glass King has Charlie the Choo-Choo being published in 1942.
Really? I think I may have one of those!!! lol lol
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28 in 23 (?)!!!!
63 in '23!!!!!!!!!!
My Collection: https://www.thedarktower.org/palaver...ion-Merlin1958
The Houston Astros cheated Major League Baseball from 2017-18!!!! Is that how we teach our kids to play the game now?????
Question? What is the publication date of Charlie the Choo-Choo in the 1st Plume edition of The Wastelands 1952/1942?
Shipped December 13,2016 last year made it the state next door on
January 9, 2017 , 9:02 pm
Arrived at USPS Facility
HAZELWOOD, MO 63042
That train was seriously delayed. any guesses on the condition of the books when they finally arrive?
An order of multiple books, been delayed... probably sawed in half. Good luck though...
2nd time around...but to good to pass up.
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I never post to sell. Amazon.com has been good to me lol. I have several Charlie the Choo - Choo books with the "American" first printing run of 2 4 6 8 10 9 7 5 3 1. The American one so to speak. If anyone is interested let me know. PM me. I don't bite......hard
Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality. Edgar Allan Poe
Here are some pics of my copies of Charlie The Choo-Choo so you can see the diferences between the four different editions:
SDCC version is glossy while the regular edition isn't.
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Ubris
Great comparison pics Ari! Very informative.
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