Date: Wed, 21 Dec 2005 15:03:27 -0500
From: "Michael Walsh" <MJW at press.jhu.edu>
To: <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>
Subject: [WSFA] Tpyos ... [WSFA] Re: Shopping online?
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>

> twhite8 at cox.net 12/21/2005 12:52:29 PM >>>
>Mike B. wrote:
>
>[...]
>>
>>  BTW, is there any market for paperbacks with printing mistakes
>on the
>>  cover? I have an extra copy of a David Drake book that I just
>>  noticed has one of the printing runs offset from where it should
be
>>  (i.e. the cover looks normal, but the metallic overprint of the
title
>>  is shifted 1/2" or so up and left of where it should be). I know
>>  double-struck coins are collected...anyone do books with similar
>>  mistakes?
>
>Probably not -- there are too many.
>
>My copy of THE POCKET BOOK OF SCIENCE FICTION (the first SF
>anthology)
>had two covers, one around the other.

If a mass market produced book, almost certainly the only value will be
a chuckle...

OTOH, when Night Shade  (a small press) released GODS OF DARKNESS by
the late Karl Edward Wagner, they discovered a typo on the back flap.
Most of the copies were rejacketed, but a number made it out into the
free world...

The typo?  His name was spelled Karl Edward Wanger.  Karl would have
loved it.

Terry Bisson's collection from Tor BEARS DISCOVERED FIRE suffered from
missing text in one of the stories.  Tor recalled the print run,
reprinted with correct text; the reprint still states First Edition.

But in general, typos ain't worth much...

mjw

>
>--Ted White
>