https://decisive-sapphire-cow.209-182-215-134.cpanel.site/wordpress/?p=594 Mon, 24 Mar 2025 05:34:46 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.34 https://decisive-sapphire-cow.209-182-215-134.cpanel.site/wordpress/?p=594&cpage=1#comment-5628 Mon, 26 Nov 2018 20:36:47 +0000 http://briankennethswain.com/wordpress/?p=594#comment-5628 That’s a bit of a head-scratcher, frankly. Yes, the misspelled Vollman name on the jacket tells me you at least have a first edition first state jacket. I have two copies of the first printing (one signed!) and they both have the jacket, the “1″ on the copyright page, and the quarter-circle thing on pg. 981 (which I totally didn’t know about, so thanks for that one). My best guess on your situation is that more copies than just the first printing have the quarter-circle thing on pg. 981 (need more research there) and you have a first-printing jacket on a second-printing book, as I know for a fact that the Vollman thing is ONLY on first printings, and I know as well that you need the “1″ on the copyright page. Not sure if that’s helpful or not!

]]> https://decisive-sapphire-cow.209-182-215-134.cpanel.site/wordpress/?p=594&cpage=1#comment-5627 Mon, 26 Nov 2018 09:15:16 +0000 http://briankennethswain.com/wordpress/?p=594#comment-5627 I bought my hc copy of Infinite Jest back in 1997, about a year after it came out. The novel is obviously a first edition, second printing because there is the first edition wording on the copyright page but the number line ends with a ’2′ instead of a ’1′. Thing is the dustjacket has the misspelled Vollman and also on page 981 of the novel itself there is the typographical half circle on the bottom right of the page which I got to know from other IJ enthusiasts was printed only on first edition, first printing. What do you make of that because I’m still confuse as to which printing of the first edition I owned.

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