I remember and interveiw with Spillane during which he
remarked ironically that he'd had a hard time selling the
first Hammer book and that the paperback, when it finally
came out, sold through the roof.
My point was, we were kidding about someone not being able to
afford the hard cover Spillane, and I was pointing out that
there was no first edition hard cover to buy, but perhaps I
was wrong. I believed the paperback sales drove the hard
cover reprints.
Patrick King
--- JIM DOHERTY <
jimdohertyjr@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Patrick,
>
> Re your comment below:
>
> "Not to mention that the book did not get a
hard
> bound
> printing until it sold several millions copies
in
> paperback. I, THE JURY was a Signet
Paperback
> Original."
>
> Someone may already have pointed this out (I get
the
> digest these days), but that's simply not
true.
>
> Dutton did the hardback first. The Signet
edition
> was
> a reprint, not a PBO.
>
> I'm not sure what your point is, here. If
you're
> claiming that most of the sales of ITJ were
in
> paperback, that's quite correct. I'm not sure
the
> hardback even went into a second printing after
the
> first edition sold out.
>
> But your sequence of events is wrong.
>
> JIM DOHERTY
>
>
>
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