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EmmaRiddle · 08-26-2004, 01:47 PM

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Originally posted by serenasnape@Aug 26 2004, 11:16 AM
Well it's up to 2550 pounds...(don't know if my keyboard has pound mark?)That's already alot of money. I would love to have the British version of her books... I do have first editions of the American version... but they printed an awful lot of those! :flowersmile:

Which is what makes the British First Editions so rare. The US first editions were printed in tens of thousands, but the British were only printed in thousands because we're a smaller country and because she was not a big author at the time that PS/CoS/PoA went to publishing in the UK through Bloomsbury.

I have a first edition British OotP Hardback. Yay for me!

08-26-2004, 01:47 PM	#5 (permalink)
EmmaRiddle Crup Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: Cardiff, Wales, UK Posts: 17,077 Hogwarts RPG Name: Marcella Riddle Graduated	Kaplinski Rival Sorting Hat Machine Quote: Originally posted by serenasnape@Aug 26 2004, 11:16 AM Well it's up to 2550 pounds...(don't know if my keyboard has pound mark?)That's already alot of money. I would love to have the British version of her books... I do have first editions of the American version... but they printed an awful lot of those! :flowersmile: Which is what makes the British First Editions so rare. The US first editions were printed in tens of thousands, but the British were only printed in thousands because we're a smaller country and because she was not a big author at the time that PS/CoS/PoA went to publishing in the UK through Bloomsbury. I have a first edition British OotP Hardback. Yay for me!