[meteorite-list] Question on Book Copyright date??

From: Don Merchant <dmerchan_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Sun, 3 Mar 2013 15:38:14 -0500
Message-ID: <001b01ce184f$07c09e30$6401a8c0_at_donaldmerchant>

Thanks Martin and Bernd. My color is yellow.
Don
----- Original Message -----
From: "Martin Goff" <msgmeteorites at gmail.com>
To: "Don Merchant" <dmerchan at rochester.rr.com>
Cc: <Meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
Sent: Sunday, March 03, 2013 3:16 PM
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Question on Book Copyright date??


> Hi Don/list,
>
> I have a few of these booklets in different colours and i asked the
> question to Mike Jensen a while ago. Below is his reply:
>
> "Those are available in several different colors. I seem to find the
> bright orange? color the most. But I have seen a more red cover and
> one closer to the 1969 yellow? color as well. So yes they are
> produced in several different colors. I always thought the blue ones
> were the rarest color but I have actually seen several of them
> recently. I also must point out I have seen so few of them over the
> years that my opinions are based on a very small population so I could
> easily be wrong when I state rarest...most...fewest...etc.
> Something I find curious is only the 42 seems to have been produced in
> several different colors. I do have one later edition that has a very
> light yellow cover but every other book I have seen is the 69 yellow
> cover"
>
> So it appears that the 1969 edition has the yellow cover and you may
> be able to date them according to the colour of the cover. Nice little
> booklets :-)
>
> Cheers
>
> Martin
>
> On 3 March 2013 19:57, Don Merchant <dmerchan at rochester.rr.com> wrote:
>> I am guessing that by the last Revised Copyright that it is from 1957? If
>> so
>> any value?
>> Sincerely
>> Don Merchant
>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Don Merchant"
>> <dmerchan at rochester.rr.com>
>> To: <Meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
>> Cc: "Don Merchant" <dmerchan at rochester.rr.com>
>> Sent: Sunday, March 03, 2013 2:53 PM
>> Subject: [meteorite-list] Question on Book Copyright date??
>>
>>
>>
>>> Hi List. I have a question about the book "A Comet Strikes The Earth" by
>>> H
>>> H Nininger. How do I actually know what edition it is? It does come with
>>> a
>>> meteorite fragment placed in hole cutout. Here is the info looking at
>>> the
>>> first 2 pages. Reads:
>>> *
>>> American Meteorite Museum
>>> Sedona, Arizona.
>>> American Museum Laboratory
>>> (successor)
>>> P.O. Box 2098 Denver Colorado 80201.....next page...
>>> *
>>> Copyright, 1942
>>> By H. H. Nininger
>>> *
>>> Revised, 1944
>>> 2nd Revision, 1946
>>> 3rd Revision, 1951
>>> 4th Revision, 1953
>>> 5th Revision, 1957
>>> *
>>> further down at bottom of page says:
>>> *
>>> printed by
>>> Desert Press, Inc
>>> Palm Desert, California
>>> *
>>> I see nothing else as far as dates, copyrights and the such throughout
>>> the
>>> rest of the 65 page book.
>>> *
>>> Sincerely
>>> Don Merchant
>>> Founder-Cosmic Treasures Celestial Wonders
>>> www.ctreasurescwonders.com
>>> IMCA #0960
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