Right on the Ebola! BCE do make good reading copies.
Right on the Ebola! BCE do make good reading copies.
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
Looking For
Dark Tower III through VII LSOE S/L or AE #1208
Trade 1st/1st
The Dead Zone
Danse Macabre
Cujo
Carrie
Firestarter
Skeleton Crew
Night Shift
Bump for our newer members.
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
Mark Twain
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 themuntilunless 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.
Up, to go with Daniel's thread : https://www.thedarktower.org/palaver...59#post1246059
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