So I picked up a used hardcover Floodtide last night for $0.84 and noticed today that it is smaller than my other one by roughly an inch at the top (length) and a half inch in width. Thickness is about the same. On the title page, it mentions nothing about a reprinting or being a Book Club Edition. The ISBNs are the same, but those numbers that I still don't understand aren't there, while they are 1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2 on the bigger one. The bigger one also lists Simon & Schuster's address as well as "Library of Congress Catologing-in-Publication Data," whereas the smaller one does not. The only difference in Dust Jackets is on the back flap the bigger one says "This title also available from Simon & Schuster Audio" and "Visit us on the World Wide Web http://www.SimonSays.com/cussler."

Oh yeah, the bigger one's board is red with black at the binding, while the smaller one is all black.

I don't have a digital camera so I can't post pics...

Anyone have a clue what the difference is, or did I just end up with a copy from the land of the little people?

:blink:

That is for the vertically challenged and color blind :P

Truthfully I have NO idea am curious though if it could be a bootleg or something. Did you get moonshine with it? :blink: hat:

Watch out for cop:

Who is the det:

Great deal though $.84

The copy you described is the book club edition.

Cheers,
Dave

Thanks, Dave! How come they don't identify it as such, or give a different ISBN or anything?

I thought all book club editions had "BCA" on the dust jacket and the base of the spine?


Mal.

BCA is used in the UK, not on the US books.

Whats a book club edition?

You must have gotten the illegal chinese reprint I made before Pitt© and Giordino killed me in my Submarine.

:P

I hope it wasn't super-extra valuable because I gave it to my old roommate to hopefully get him interested in Cussler books. b: