Hi Simon, Can you turn off the images in your postings? This is a text-only list, inserting images tends to annoy as there are some people who don't have the bandwidth to handle them (either they pay by the k, or they live in places where the Internet is this vague *waggles fingers dismissively* thing that never caught on). It may be that the image you've attached is quite small, it's just we have a zero-tolerance policy to prevent other people from thinking it's ok to do...
The person who can answer your question exactly (if the answer is available) is John but he's just lost his dad so his responses may be delayed. >From what I remember, the original (orange? cover) Grafton was published in/around 1982, the '88 is either a reprint, the limp, a book club or misidentified. The 1982 Grafton HC 1st, there were probably less then 2k published (there were only about that many of the US true 1st '82 Magician). Looking through Crydee, is this the one you have?: http://www.crydee.com/node/3805 which apparently doesn't show print runs, sorry. The original Grafton 1st UK HC is so rare, I think John doesn't have a copy of it in his collection (which is the largest in the world, by far). To compare, there were exactly a dozen photocopies of the original Magician ms, complete with Ray's hand-written markup after typing it out... John's possibly owned all of them at one time or another. Probably at the same time. That's Ray's official website btw. The aforementioned John is the keeper of it. rip On Tue, May 21, 2013 at 3:29 PM, Simon Patterson <[email protected]>wrote: > Hi There, > > I'm a rare bookseller from Leeds in the UK, I specialise in speculative > fiction. A few weeks ago I acquired a copy of Magician in hardback > published in 1988 by Grafton. I understand that the print run was quite low > - does anybody have any numbers? > > Thank you in advance - I've subscribed to the list, I like to get to know a > bit about the authors I sell. > > Simon > > > -- > > Simon J. Patterson > Bookseller, Leeds, UK. > Associate Member of the ABA and Member of the PBFA > > * <http://www.hyraxia.com/> > * > > ** > * > > [email protected] > ** > > +44(0)7557 652 609 > * > > *Join us:* > <http://www.facebook.com/hyraxia> > <http://twitter.com/#!/hyraxia><http://www.aba.org.uk/> > > *To be included on our newsletter or to sell books email: * > [email protected] >
