Yes, I remember seeing that post about The Shining Company! I wonder what the difference could have been? It wasn't the most obvious possibility, the cover art.
Heh, most of the work I did was a few years ago, when I cobbled together patchy publication histories for most of Sutcliff's books for the wiki. Those could do with improvement and updating – that list of posthumous editions will be a useful cross-check! Actually I ought to add notes to the wiki about several things that have come up in our discussion, edition variations not least. And at some point I think I will do some spot comparisons, as you suggest, between weird OUP spellings and FSG editions; pretty sure I have a few spelling errors noted somewhere...
Did you know, while searching library and used book sites yesterday, I couldn't find any evidence that there ever were US print editions of a few of her novels, like Simon or Blood and Sand? And besides that, apparently Henry Z. Walck was the chief of OUP New York before buying out their children's department in 1958 – so did the first US printings of Eagle of the Ninth, Outcast, Shield Ring, and Silver Branch actually say Walck or OUP?
Anyway! That's a pretty interesting career path, for both you and your dad: it seems you're a family of many talents. And it's definitely great to talk to someone with like...actual knowledge of publishing in a conversation like this.
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Date: 2022-10-02 11:11 am (UTC)Heh, most of the work I did was a few years ago, when I cobbled together patchy publication histories for most of Sutcliff's books for the wiki. Those could do with improvement and updating – that list of posthumous editions will be a useful cross-check! Actually I ought to add notes to the wiki about several things that have come up in our discussion, edition variations not least. And at some point I think I will do some spot comparisons, as you suggest, between weird OUP spellings and FSG editions; pretty sure I have a few spelling errors noted somewhere...
Did you know, while searching library and used book sites yesterday, I couldn't find any evidence that there ever were US print editions of a few of her novels, like Simon or Blood and Sand? And besides that, apparently Henry Z. Walck was the chief of OUP New York before buying out their children's department in 1958 – so did the first US printings of Eagle of the Ninth, Outcast, Shield Ring, and Silver Branch actually say Walck or OUP?
Anyway! That's a pretty interesting career path, for both you and your dad: it seems you're a family of many talents. And it's definitely great to talk to someone with like...actual knowledge of publishing in a conversation like this.