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Originally Posted by issybird
I can’t even imagine how pricey they must be!
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It varies. Some are first printings, some are second. Some are in great condition, and some are not, so if I buy one, I get the dinged-up one. They even had some British editions (but later ones I think).
They include notes for collectors -- in pencil, of course.
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Originally Posted by issybird
At some point and I suspect we’re talking a couple of decades now, facsimile editions of the earliest books were released. I don’t know if they’re still in print; racial bias might have caused them to peter out quietly, unlike those Dr. Seuss books where a big noise was made. In any case, I wouldn’t be surprised if today’s girls preferred the updated versions; my sense is that kids today aren’t as comfortable reading books written much earlier. Do girls still read Louisa May Alcott, for example?
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I remember those. I wonder if they sold more to collectors than to people buying them for their children. I just saw just the first couple in the bookstores, but the company had others available. So they might not have sold well except to people who bought the later books directly from them. (And the publisher might have lost the rights. They still sell Tom Swift from their site, but not Nancy Drew and the Hardy Boys.)
I've seen the facsimile editions at that booth -- properly labeled as facsimile editions, of course.