curious book -- would like help identifying

I have acquired a copy of a curious (at least to me) book:

Dan Brown. The Da Vinci Code. Doubleday, 2003.

It has the size, the thinner boards, and unpriced dust wrapper typical
to a BCE ... yet the copyright page says:

April 2003
First Edition
10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1

What is it, a BCE or ... ??

Thanks for any help.

It's a book club. The club bought the printer's plates (or licensed them, or
the software, or however they do it nowadays) and didn't change the copyright
page. I have book club copies of several recent books that have the same
feature -- a first edition or complete number line on the copyright page. It
would seem the flap price is becoming ever more important as an indicator.

corporate user writes:

Dan Brown. The Da Vinci Code. Doubleday, 2003.

It has the size, the thinner boards, and unpriced dust wrapper typical
to a BCE ... yet the copyright page says:

April 2003
First Edition
10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1

What is it, a BCE or ... ??Dan Brown. The Da Vinci Code. Doubleday, 2003.

It has the size, the thinner boards, and unpriced dust wrapper typical
to a BCE ... yet the copyright page says:

April 2003
First Edition
10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1

What is it, a BCE or ... ??

Thanks for any help.







Bob
Print Matters! Used & Rare Books
http://www.abebooks.com/home/printmat

Thanks for your reply, Bob. I was pretty sure that it is a BCE because
of the size (and, more so, because I have a true first of this same
book), but it's the first BCE that I have run across that has the
"First Edition" and number line.



On 08 Dec 2004 22:23:06 GMT, usted (Bob Riedel)
wrote:

It's a book club. The club bought the printer's plates (or licensed them, or
the software, or however they do it nowadays) and didn't change the copyright
page. I have book club copies of several recent books that have the same
feature -- a first edition or complete number line on the copyright page. It
would seem the flap price is becoming ever more important as an indicator.

corporate user writes:

Dan Brown. The Da Vinci Code. Doubleday, 2003.

It has the size, the thinner boards, and unpriced dust wrapper typical
to a BCE ... yet the copyright page says:

April 2003
First Edition
10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1

What is it, a BCE or ... ??Dan Brown. The Da Vinci Code. Doubleday, 2003.

It has the size, the thinner boards, and unpriced dust wrapper typical
to a BCE ... yet the copyright page says:

April 2003
First Edition
10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1

What is it, a BCE or ... ??

Thanks for any help.







Bob
Print Matters! Used & Rare Books
http://www.abebooks.com/home/printmat