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Originally Posted by Ralph Sir Edward
Another reason is that the book may have been "customized" for different markets. This was not uncommon for lesser writers of science fiction in the 1950's. Gollancz often required mods to the text before they published in Britain, for example.
One might want to own both versions for comparison.
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That is still happening. Compare the Harry Potter books as published in the UK and Canada to the editions published in the USA. Even the title changed in one case (Philosopher's Stone in UK/Canada, Sorceror's Stone in USA).