Talk:Rafał Milach

Edition size of The First March of Gentlemen, second edition
The publisher, GOST, claims the second edition of The First March of Gentlemen is in an edition of 650 copies. I see that The Photographers' Gallery site claims it is an edition of 1000. I originally wrote 1000, then changed it to 650. IP address 188.146.224.116 changed it back to 650 copies. Perhaps 188.146.224.116 can help us out with more info? Thanks. -Lopifalko (talk) 13:32, 14 May 2018 (UTC)


 * I tend to think that edition size isn't encyclopedic, unless it's unusually or unexpectedly large or small. Photobooks that don't concentrate on mere clichés typically come in editions in the hundreds; these don't concentrate on clichés and came in editions of hundreds. (Bibliophiliacruft?) -- Hoary (talk) 13:53, 14 May 2018 (UTC)


 * Hoary not being a stickler for detail!? Having learned everything I know in the way of such details from you, I am shocked. -Lopifalko (talk) 14:07, 14 May 2018 (UTC)


 * Hope you didn't spill your drink! Well, I try to provide the detail necessary to distinguish one book from another, to see if it looks likely to be of interest, and to find it in a good library. Whether there are 449 or 499 copies other than the one in a given person's hands isn't a matter of obvious significance to me. (I also have trouble taking seriously a "limited edition" of x copies, given how often I encounter "HC" and similar examples.) -- Hoary (talk) 14:19, 14 May 2018 (UTC)


 * I suppose another way of looking at is is that publication implies that copies have been made available, that the number of copies is intrinsically important and thus of encyclopedic interest, and the fact that dealers then blather on about "exclusive" and "rare" may be regrettable or hilarious but isn't something WP need worry about. -- Hoary (talk) 13:01, 15 May 2018 (UTC)


 * Is this a second edition in any real sense of "edition"? It shares the same ISBN as its predecessor. I haven't seen it, but I suspect that it's just a second printing/impression of the same thing. -- Hoary (talk) 13:04, 15 May 2018 (UTC)