US books are not 2nd prints - they just all had delayed release dates to ship as a set with the same release date in the US coinciding with the 4th issue releasing in Canada. All US books are released December 1992 and have cover dates of February 1993 (same as #4 Canadian price variants)
#3 and #4 have correct dates and descriptions so using them as the pattern the changes are below:
1
1A should be 1B (and listed as English Canadian Price Variant)
1B should be 1C
1C should be 1A (and listed as US Direct Edition - NOT a 2nd print)
2
2A should be 2B (and listed as English Canadian Price Variant)
2B should be 2C
2C should be 2A (and listed as US Direct Edition - NOT a 2nd print)
3
This is correct
4
This is correct.
Hi, looked into these and found the following:
The French Canadian and English Canadian cover dates are 1990-00-00. But are these Canadians actually different? They seem the same looking on ebay.
What we have as 2nd Printing has a different cover date (1993-02-00). This US Edition would’ve been released 3 years later according to the cover date. Switching C over to A wouldn’t make sense from a cover date standpoint.
The dates that you have for the Canadian versions are mostly correct. The only difference between the Canadian english and the American versions is the size of the number on the cover. It is a small number on the US version and a large number on the Canadian version. Whether you change the variant and description on numbers 1 and 2 to match those on 3 and 4 or vice versa doesn’t really matter as long as they have the correct variant descriptions and are consistent I would think.
Also yes there is a difference between the two Canadian versions. Huge difference. Both the cover and the interior pages are lettered in French.
Got it, thanks! I’ve changed all of the variant descriptions to better reflect what they are. Also added more credits to these entries. Thank you for posting!
