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Detective Book Club oddity
John R. Yamamoto-Wilson wrote:
Jim wrote: Well, checking these titles on bookfinder, I come up with an ordinary Detective Book Club edition as well, which leads me to assume that 1969 (or 1970) *is* the date of publication. I'm not sure why you think that. If a book carries a copyright but no publication date then, unless there is other evidence to pin down the date of publication, all one can assume is that it was published on or after the copyright date. my impression was that the titles were always contemporary mysteries, and I'm wondering why, after 28--or even 35--years, they should do this volume. That Zane Grey website has a lot of info on Walter Black. Apparently they did a lot of reprints of Zane Grey material during the 1960s: The Walter J. Black Editions were reprints of seventy-three of Zane Grey's titles with one additional title appearing as a First Edition. The series also included a biography of Zane Grey. Produced in the 1960's, they were bound in red and tan cloth and originally came in a rice paper cover. (http://www.zgws.org/black.html) It goes on to discuss the value of these editions (most of them are of little value, but there are one or two exceptions). So Walter Black were reprinting Zane Grey stuff in the 1960s and several of these reprints (according to http://www.zgws.org/zgfechrono.html) were limited "leatherette" editions. It's not unreasonable to suppose that they were reprinting other material from decades earlier and that some of that, too, came out in limited editions with a leather binding. John Today I came across a learthette bound book from Walter Black. This was the "Works of Tolstoi" bearing a copyright of 1928 (presumably for the translation). But the condition of the book looked much more recent than 1928. Francis A. Miniter |
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