The Mad King | ||||||||||||||||||
FIRST EDITION IDENTIFIERS:
This copyright page shows that A.C. McClurg published "The Mad King" in August 1926, however it was not publically released for sale until Sep. 18, 1926. The first edition has blue cloth boards like the preceding 4 independent titles but has red-orange lettering rather than black. In an effort to correct typographical errors A.C. McClurg printed this book twice made three states of this first edition. The dust jacket and frontispiece were illustrated by J. Allen St. John. The total print-run of all three states was 5,000 copies. The book below is of the second state as page 92 has been tipped in and page 12 still shows errors in the text as shown in the photos to the right. |
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Above shows page 92 where the original page was removed and the corrected page was glued onto part of the original page. | ||||||||||||||||||
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The date above is from "The Cave Girl" and shows both the 9 and 5 descending below the 1 and 2.
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The date above is from "The Mad King" and shows the "O" which is really a "9" as shown in the other two photos.
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The date above is from "Outlaw of Torn" and shows both the 9 and 7 descending below the 1 & 2.
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Last Auction Sale |
12/11/2005
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Average Time Between Sales
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40.6 days
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Total Books Sold
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27
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Last Updated: 1/1/2006 |
Low Price
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Modal Price
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Average Price
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High Price
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Average Condition
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Total Sold
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Book without Dust Jacket |
$9
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$75
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$85.64
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$200
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Good+
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25
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Book with Dust Jacket |
$1829
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$2039.5
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$2039.5
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$2250
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NF, VG (DJ)
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2
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NOTES: Auction sales tracking began on Jan. 1st, 2003. Tracking all 3 states of this first edition. |