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Show I A Faked First Edition Collectors who follow the sales of Conrad's Con-rad's first editions at the London auctions auc-tions have learned that there were two first editions of "Chance,' a real and a , counterfeit one, but It is not until r- cently that they have known all the marks of differentiation between the rnl one and the "rake." Th editor of the Hook man's Journal and Print Collector has Investigated and listed the difference differ-ence between these two editions nnd thru ugh his Investigations h;i rtl. vr.Ml an Interesting story. "Chance" was officially offi-cially published bv Methuen in i:iH -t some copies of a 1913 edition by the same firm exist some of thrm genuinely if-sued if-sued by the publisher, L-ut others faked by an outsider. A renrecentatlve of the firm of Men-then Men-then stated thnt the Issue of the first edition, officially. Is 1914.. He confirmed the impression thatthe. book was set up In 1 ! I -1. but thought that throufct soma delav it was not printed until early In 191 , when a new title paga with the corrected date was used. TIiomo issued with the date 1913, he thought, must have been put out throueh an er- tot. However, to -ttle the matter. h examined the official ftle fopv which i. preaerved by the firm for reference pur-poeca, pur-poeca, and to Ilia aurpriae found It an example ex-ample of the verlttihle first lee-je, with the date of 1M.1. Reference to the Brll-lah Brll-lah nvjaeum copv revealed another genuine genu-ine example. The enterprising perpetni-tor perpetni-tor of the fraud, knowing of the few coplea laaued with the 1U title p.nre. had thla pare made tn facsimile and in-aerted in-aerted In coplea of the 1914 iaaue. T. atrengthen the deception he had a duplicate dupli-cate of the publiaher'a review at-trim made and atamped on the HAiriou firKt isruea. There are about flftv copies of thla Iaaue In existence, but of the "faked" laMie the number la believed to ha greater. |