Thread Name: Identifying G85.1 Great Ages And Ideas Of The Jewish People First From: John Wolansky Date: Mon, 14 Nov 2005 19:52:15 -0500 I have a copy of G85.1, no total at the top of the inverse and the highest giant identified is G85. The other three titles identified in Toledano as having been issued the same year are not present. This suggests I have a first; however, I have a notation that it should only have G82.1, Faulkner Reader which was listed as having been issued two years earlier, in 1959. Did I make a typo with 82.1 which should have been 85.1? Any thoughts would be appreciated. ------------------------------------- From: GORDON NEAVILL <aa3401@removed> Date: Mon, 14 Nov 2005 20:57:24 -0500 Great Ages and Ideas of the Jewish People was published in late spring 1962 with a first printing of 10,000 copies. The jacket has a spring 1962 list: headed 408 titles and including Hersey, Hiroshima but not Erasmus, In Praise of Folly and with the Giants list including G85 Great Ages ad Ideas of the Jewish People but not Pasternak, Doctor Zhivago. I've seen the first printing but don't have a copy. ------------------------------------- From: "John Wolansky" <jwol@removed> Date: Tue, 15 Nov 2005 12:34:42 -0500 Thanks for the response. Now, my copy excludes Erasmus and Pasternak but includes Hershey and Great Ages, but, it has no total at the top of the inverse. Am I mistakenly thinking there were only two issues of DJ's every year, in the spring and the fall? Where does my jacket with no total, or even reference to other titles, fit in? ------------------------------------- From: GORDON NEAVILL <aa3401@removed> Date: Tue, 15 Nov 2005 20:44:27 -0500 You're right, the spring 1962 jacket for Great Ages and Ideas of the Jewish People doesn't have the heading referring to 408 titles. I don't know why. The list of titles is the final authority, so you have a first jacket -- and, it turns out, so do I! ------------------------------------- From: "John Wolansky" <jwol@removed> Date: Tue, 15 Nov 2005 20:55:07 -0500 Thanks, Barry! -------------------------------------