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    Right on the Ebola! BCE do make good reading copies.

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    I too wanted to find out about the codes myself. I can tell you one thing that I have seen, I could be wrong because Ebay is not the authority in these things but early BCE books follow the same code structure as the 1st trades do. I would have to see if I can find the examples that I seen, but I saw listings on Ebay that were BCE copies as listed dust jackets had no price gutter codes listed a (1) letter followed by a two digit number. The listed gutter code did not match 1st ed gutter code was latter print dont know the physical size of the book (one thing I wish people would list) and the postings I had seen did not show the book with the cover off. If your BCE copies show a two letter beginning I would say they are very very late printings. I believe this to be true due to the fact that the ones I own that have double letter beginnings the pages dont look that old
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    I may have posted some of these years ago, but they are still provide interesting background information.

    http://www.isfdb.org/wiki/index.php/Gutter_code

    https://www.bookthink.com/0005/05sfb.htm

    https://www.statestreetbooks.com/gutter-codes
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    It’s funny you bumped this because I was literally thinking about it just today. My copies of Carrie, ‘Salem’s Lot, and Night Shift are all later printings from 1985-1986 (based on the AA42, BB1, and AA?? ((hidden in the binding)) gutter codes), but I’ve always wondered if there was any way to know which printing the books were. I’m guessing the answer is no, but does anyone happen to know if that’s something Doubleday tracked or information that’s available somewhere?

    It doesn’t really matter—I got them all for next to nothing and don’t plan on selling them until unless I can replace them with first printings—but I’ve always just been curious about it. I’m guessing Carrie and ‘Salem’s Lot at least had been reprinted many times in the ~10 years before my copies rolled off the press, but I wouldn’t be surprised if Night Shift was a somewhat lower printing.

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    why does the word gutter have the spoiler block over it?
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    Quote Originally Posted by burgerhicks80 View Post
    why does the word gutter have the spoiler block over it?
    Where? Did you search for the word gutter? If so, the highlight color for the main site theme is the same color as the text so it blocks out the word.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Joe315 View Post
    Did you search for the word gutter? If so, the highlight color for the main site theme is the same color as the text so it blocks out the word.
    I always thought that was one hell of an odd way to display search results.
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