Well, the new copies of the UK The Cuckoo's Calling have flooded the market and all those eBay sellers who were praying they'd be first editions are done for - they say "Reprinted (twice). So, now they all have to say "first edition, later printing" which is, of course, nonsense. Once a book goes into a subsequent printing it is not a first edition. But these people aren't really dealers so what do they know. It's also interesting that UK firsts seem to have topped out - there are two up with Buy it Now on them - they've been unsold for two days and the price is just around a thousand. Also, a bunch of dealers who were clearly stating the first edition only had a run of 1500 have stopped saying that - because from the get-go what the publisher was saying was it had SOLD only about that number - that doesn't mean the number of books printed was that number. However, anything under 5,000 will keep it a rarity that will either hold where it is or eventually go up if she continues to write this series, which she says she is. There are tons of UK firsts now on eBay, few with Buy It Now, just hoping it will go insane in the last minutes of those auctions. It will be interesting to see where they end up. The bids range from a couple hundred to about six hundred, but I would be surprised if any closed at those prices. Meanwhile, the ABE still has almost no copies at all and they've sold several at 1500, which is why those 1,000 copies with Buy it Now not selling is kind of interesting. There is also a signed copy up at a more reasonable price - just over two, but that seller took away the Buy It Now option, so no one will be getting that. I'd like to know just how many she signed.
