I note that unlike previous auctions you didn't include the caveat about the copyright remaining with the authors. Is that because the first signature contains the original copyright notice? Although I vaguely recall something being mentioned about MM not properly handling issues of copyright. Another question, were these signatures intended for the hardbound or trade edition. You did say first edition, but are all first editions necessarily hardbound?
Meisha Merlin books had the same form-factor for hardcover and for trade paper. They ordered the total print run and would later assign so many to be hard-bound, based on pre-orders. You'll recall (or perhaps not) that MM hardcovers tarried about a week behind the trades -- that's because they had to go to another jobber to be cased. The trades were bound at the same plant that did the printing.
In the case of the copyright remaining with the authors -- we're selling a book; it just happens to be unbound. The copyright notice is in the book; our names are on every other page. I suppose somebody could white-out all of that and print in their name, in an effort to pass the work off as theirs, but -- really.
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Date: 2010-05-03 03:09 am (UTC)Is that because the first signature contains the original copyright notice?
Although I vaguely recall something being mentioned about MM not properly handling issues of copyright.
Another question, were these signatures intended for the hardbound or trade edition. You did say first edition, but are all first editions necessarily hardbound?
Re: Curious Type
Date: 2010-05-03 10:05 am (UTC)In the case of the copyright remaining with the authors -- we're selling a book; it just happens to be unbound. The copyright notice is in the book; our names are on every other page. I suppose somebody could white-out all of that and print in their name, in an effort to pass the work off as theirs, but -- really.