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Posted by Fubeca (Member # 12662) on :
 
Soooooo, I have a friend who knows that i am a big "Ender's Game" fan and he (actual his cousin) has a first edition of Ender's Game he is willing to sell at a pretty good price but I only am interested if it is a first edition first run. Anyone know how to tell if it is or not????

 

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Posted by Stone_Wolf_ (Member # 8299) on :
 
Give me your friend's cousin's info, and I'll "look in to it" for you
 

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Posted by Lyrhawn (Member # 7039) on :
 
You would think the copyright information on the inside cover would nail it.

But I'm not sure how that works for more recent trade presses. The easiest way might just be to go online and search Ender's Game first edition to find an online retailer that sells it, then look at the cover and see what it looks like.
 

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Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :
 

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Originally posted by Lyrhawn:
You would think the copyright information on the inside cover would nail it.

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Not by itself. I have a (completely different book) that might look like a first edition from the copyright info alone . . . unless you continued down the page and saw that it was a 30th printing. You can tell that because near the bottom of the page it says

40 39 38 37 36 35 34 33 32 31 30

I believe that at the time EG was first published, that system was already in place. It was by the time my edition -- a 13th printing of the Tor MMP -- was printed a few years later.
 

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Posted by Lyrhawn (Member # 7039) on :
 
Good point. I thought the information was on that page somewhere, but I've never known how to parse it.

Edit to add: Thanks for posting that. Now you have me looking at all my old books to see what printing they are or if they're even first editions.

[ December 02, 2011, 01:02 AM: Message edited by: Lyrhawn ]
 

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Posted by Foust (Member # 3043) on :
 
Just curious, does anyone else have an edition old enough to still have Ender calling Alai a n*****?
 

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Posted by Dogbreath (Member # 11879) on :
 
I do.
 

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Posted by Dan_Frank (Member # 8488) on :
 
Yep.
 

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Posted by Sean Monahan (Member # 9334) on :
 
Yes, in paperback. In fact, I was going to suggest the OP check for that, but I'm not sure if it's limited to the first edition.
 

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Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :
 
Definitely not. My 13th MMP printing has it, and so does the 1992 printing -- on page 45.
 

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Posted by Juxtapose (Member # 8837) on :
 
I had no idea about that original scene. I appreciated the point it made, but I can understand why OSC removed it.
 

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Posted by Strider (Member # 1807) on :
 
Even my SFBC edition of Ender's War has it.
 

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Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :
 
Given that could be from as early as 1986, that's not so surprising.
 

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Posted by Scott R (Member # 567) on :
 

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Originally posted by Foust:
Just curious, does anyone else have an edition old enough to still have Ender calling Alai a n*****?

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Originally posted by Geraine:
Many first edition books will actually have "First Edition" printed near the publication date. Not sure if Ender's Game had this though.

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