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November 13, 2012 12:31

And that is the case with the entire CataWiki Catalog, isn't it? In any case, I also see many versions with the same front cover but still recorded with records and comics. As a collector, you just have to take a little more effort to identify your version.

Maybe we should make a Catawiki-wide appointment here.

Something like: if there are reprints whether deviating versions are entered, this must be demonstrated with an image.

In concrete terms: for books, a scan / photo of the colophon with the print reference. Otherwise we get joke dresses who scan their book once and enter it as 100 different editions.

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November 13, 2012 12:50

Something such as: if reprints or deviating versions are entered, this must be demonstrated with an image.

If a variant is entered on something that is already in the catalog, then it must indeed also be made plausible that it is really a variant.

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November 13, 2012 13:03

And so just via scans, indicate the differences, just goes with 3 scans

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November 13, 2012 13:42

For a book with a dust jacket, 3 scans are actually not enough.

If you want someone (in this case an administrator) to be able to verify the input, complete documentation by means of scans is the ultimate consequence. But where do you draw the line? Photo of colophon, photo of title page, photo of last page number, photo of signed illustration (if the name of the draftsman is not mentioned) ...?

If according to the importer it is stated in a book that the is a second edition (even if the cover is identical to the first edition), you must be able to rely on it, even without a scan.

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November 14, 2012 21:37

It remains difficult anyway, because the editions are not entered chronologically in Catawiki.
Suppose I have Pinkeltje's 34th edition. And that book is not yet in Catawiki.
Then I enter it as a reprint, with the remark under Specialties that it concerns the 34th edition; I do not know other editions.
A subsequent user enters the 20th edition - which happens to look identical -, but then cannot judge whether the 21st to 33rd edition are also identical.
And so on and so on.
In fact, you can only contract prints if they have ALL been included in Catawiki first.

This problem is caused by not being able to state pressure, now you can state that in detail but that also poses problems that the techies might be able to tackle, but it is much simpler to actually display the print and just let reprint be dropped. and that with a bit of bad luck you will see about 80 same covers, it is! but if it also becomes a sorting option, you can quickly straighten that out and probably do not require major interventions.

but it is still great for sellers to buy the right item, at the right pressure!

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To revive an older discussion: I work a lot with English-language books, and there is - also and especially in terms of value of a book - a very emphatic difference between what is in the Netherlands the 1st edition would be called "First Printing" of "First Edition".

See this page for a more detailed explanation: http://www.booklibris.com/BLFirstEditionID.htm

What to look for: For many years books simply stated "First Edition" on their Copyright Page. On older books printed before the advent of ISBNs (about 1968), check whether your copy was printed the same year the book was first published. (For example since The Old Man and the Sea was first published in 1952, a copy from 1965 cannot be the first edition). Newer books, those printed after 1968 or so, may also have a number sequence printed on the Copyright Page that determines its printing history. A number sequence that has a "1" at the end such as "10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1" indicates a first printing. But, if the lowest number showing is 2, such as "10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2" then the book is a second printing .. and so on. Be aware that there are a few publishers in the habit of printing later printings without removing the “First Edition” statement (yikes!). In books printed after 1968, look at the number line for the actual printing history. To a collector, books that state “First Edition” on their Copyright Page but have number lines missing the number "1" are not first printings.

So it is - at least for the English language area - very undesirable to merge "Equal printings", and more importantly, a field "Print run" is missing for the correct valuation ....

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March 16, 2020 11:44

Hi,

I understand your story, I think, but in Catawiki we only call something a first edition if it is a first edition. So also for English books. I don't see any difference in approach ...

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I wanted to say something about the “pressure” of a book. A busy mention in a book is always conditional. I.e. in this language, in this country, at this publisher, in this form, etc. CW uses the condition “language”, which means that there are as many first editions as languages in which the book was published.

Having said this, you can safely assume that if there is 1st edition in a book that is definitely not the real first edition, for the very simple reason that it is not even known at the time whether a second edition will ever come.

You can deal with this in two ways: A factual representation of what is in the book, or start counting prints yourself. CW has opted for the latter. And unfortunately, the list from which you can choose is missing the most common printing, namely “not mentioned”.

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OK, Arco and Enigma, I think you may not quite see the distinction: Take 2 copies of a book at ABEBooks as an example:

SSGB 1

and

SS-GB 2

The 1st edition says "True First Edition.", and the 2nd says "Third printing", and yet others say "First Edition, First Printing". The "printing" and "edition" and "Druk" are therefore not the same terms. And certainly when it comes to determining value, there is a distinction (I think the difference also occurs mainly because of the size of the language areas, by the way). So when people enter something from the English language area, a "1st edition" is just the "First Edition, First Printing" even though it does say "First Edition" in the book itself. The latter makes it difficult to determine.

But precisely because the First Edition, First Printing are often worth much more than later editions and prints, that is important for determining a catalog value.

Regarding whether it is 'a real' 1st edition, even if there are no follow-up editions: I think that's superfluous. 1 is always 1 even if there is no 2. Your only child is also your first child, for example.

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Having said this, you can safely assume that if there is 1st edition in a book that is definitely not the real first edition, for the very simple reason that it is not even known at the time whether a second edition will ever come.

I cannot follow that reasoning. Why would a publisher put in 1st edition if it isn't?

And unfortunately, the list from which you can choose is missing the most common printing, namely “not mentioned”.

The field is not required, so if you don't know because it's not in the book, just don't make a choice. And if you do know which edition it is while it is not mentioned in the book, you can add "no edition mentioned" under Details.

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If it says 1st edition, the condition is often missing. So it is not a real first edition, but the "if" is missing, as paperback, from this publisher, etc.

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the "if" is missing, as paperback, from this publisher, etc.

This is solved in the trade by "first thus" which means as much as: "This is not a real first edition but the first in this form."

https://www.biblio.com/book_collecting_terminology/1st-edition-thus-40.html

1st edition, thus

Aka:

1st thus, first thus

Indicates that this is not the first appearance of a book in print, but that this is the first appearance in a substantially different format than the true first edition. For example, a first illustrated edition of a book, or even a first paperback release of a book originally published in hard cover.

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Yes, but is it also stated in the book, so that the collector can see that he is being cheated.

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March 16, 2020 17:13

Usually not, so we call it 'First edition of a reissue'.

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Moreover, when entering a book, you did not have to state the state. After all, it is a Catalog. You include the condition or condition of a book if you have selected the item and then put it up for sale or if you want to add the item to your collection. It has already been mentioned, but 1st edition is really about learning in that language. If it is another language, it will be the 1st edition in that language. Otherwise a lot of books and comics would not have been translated as 1st edition.
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