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First edition
The Complaints
Ian Rankin
Reagan Arthur Books/Little, Brown and Company, 2011. First edition, first printing.
$25One copy · this copy
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- Book
- Fine
- Jacket
- Near Fine
- Jacket note
- The dust jacket grades Near Fine.
- Our ref
- RCB-09efddb0ed7c
What we checked, and where to see itRCB-09efddb0ed7c · 10 photographs of this copy
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Copyright page states "First United States Edition: March 2011"
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Number line reads 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 — ends in 1, first printing
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Notes "Originally published in Great Britain by Orion, September 2009" — the true first is the UK edition
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Jacket flap priced $24.99; rear barcode 52499 — consistent with trade issue, not a book club
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Embossed L B colophon on front board is the Little, Brown publisher's mark, not a book-club blind stamp
examined on the copy in hand
Flaws, each one named
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light handling wear to jacket extremities
noted on the copy in hand
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faint edge wear to rear jacket panel near barcode
noted on the copy in hand
This copy
First edition
What a true first shows: Orion, London, 2009, cloth in jacket (UK edition precedes this US issue)
Photographs show the exact copy you will receive. Every flaw we found is listed above; if we missed one, the return is on us.