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first editions
Hi ,
Can anyone help me? How do you know if you a book is a first edition as some books state this and others dont. someone told me to refer to the ISBN number and if it begins with a 0, then it is a first edition. Is this true ?
thanks a million
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.quite right - 0 is UK, 1 USA, 2 France, etc. The ISBN tells you nothing about the edition of a book.
For that information, you should look on the title page of the book (with all the copyright information on). At the bottom somewhere you should find a sequence of numbers. The lowest number there shows the edition - so if you have a Harry Potter with the numbers 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 on it, you have a first edition.
I've uploaded a scan of a first page to http://www.dafyd.me.uk/docs/book.jpg, on which I have highlighted the things to be looking for.
Hope that helps.