[projectaon] Re: Last of the 28thos errata
- From: "O'Toole, Laurence (2000)" <Laurence.OToole.2000@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "projectaon@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <projectaon@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2014 21:50:27 +0000
Sorry to belabour the point. But I think this is important.
Entries on Amazon, eBay, and GoodReads also say June. (Note that these are not
flawless. The first two also have entries with dates *before* June 1984.) In
fact, Wikipedia is the only place where I have seen July.
Is it possible that the initial print-run had a month/date, which was removed
in subsequent reprints? Or are lots of people getting this from the same
(erroneous?) source?
Cerulean
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Subject: [projectaon] Re: [projectaon] Re: Last of the 28thos errata
ok so June/July ??
So we could aim to publish for around the end of the month?
Would certainly be worth fireworks on the homepage ??
From: David Davis<mailto:feline1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: ?Wednesday?, ?18? ?June? ?2014 ?20?:?50
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I'm afraid the book itself doesn't reveal the answer - my Sparrow 1st edition
of 'Flight From the Dark' says "First Published 1984. Reprinted 1984" on the
copyright blurb page.
So, the first printing had already sold out before I got my copy... which was
via a mail-order book catalogue for schools (Puffin Books, I think, although I
could be wrong)... this was in my last year of Primary School (term started in
September 1984,,, and I seem to recall it was still sunny when I got my copy -
so probably Sept or Oct..) - so seems more likely that Flight From the Dark
was published in Q1 or Q2 of 1984 if it had had time to sell out it's first
printing by Sept/Oct...?
David
On 18 June 2014 00:28, O'Toole, Laurence (2000)
<Laurence.OToole.2000@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx<mailto:Laurence.OToole.2000@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>>
wrote:
>> According to the WIKI, next month is the anniversary:
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lone_Wolf_(gamebooks)<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lone_Wolf_%28gamebooks%29>
> Thanks. The source for the statement doesn't seem to mention
> it. Well, we'll just go with it. :)
According to, um, us ... the Sparrow version of 'Flight from the Dark' was in
June 1984.
http://www.projectaon.org/en/Bibliography/FlightFromTheDark
Demian says June too:
http://gamebooks.org/show_item.php?id=1399
I accept that this is not definitive. Does anybody have an original copy of the
book to check?
Cerulean
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