question about a book cover

my husband recently brought me home 2 books and we are finding nothing about them online anywhere. they are a copy of The Godfather's Revenge but the cover is absolutely colorless. It has the same ISBN as the regular cover that is black, red and white. does anyone have any clue about these ie- why are they colorless, are they worth anything, etc. i will try to upload photos as soon as i am able. the hptos are under my profile: tnhomeschoolingmom.

thanks so much for the help everyone
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denise aka tnhomeschoolingmom

Is it a paperback? It *could* be a review copy and will say somewhere that it is such.

What information is on the copyright page?

my husband is going to take some photos of the copyright page later this evening.

no, it is a hardback edition. if you look on my profile there are some photos of the book.

If your book has an ISBN, it is fairly modern. Most modern hardbacks have dustjackets and usually undecorated covers. The original dustjacket for this book was in color and probably has slightly raised lettering. Looking at you images, the raised lettering on the book's cover corresponds to the dustjacket lettering and probably added support. The reason you are not seeing your version imaged is most-likely due to it lacking its dj and simply, no-one has scanned a jacketless copy yet.

The dustjacket is with the book. It is exactly like the colored version which I have seen a copy of . The dustjackets I have are colorless-is pure white.

Got me??

Are you sure it's not just a cover that somebody made when the original one got destroyed? In the photos it looks like a plain sheet of paper. It's also just possible it may have been a 'rogue' cover that just missed the print run (stuck to the back of another one) though these would normally be pulled out at the construction stage and certainly shouldn't have been put on books and distributed to shops. Maybe somebody at the printers helped themselves to a copy and put a blank cover on as they sneaked it out? Or perhaps a few were sold with blank covers because there were some 'naughty' passages in the book? Just thinking aloud really.

Who is the publisher? Maybe you could contact their public relations or customer service office (or whatever it is that publishers have) and ask if there was a variant edition.

> 9

In the photos it looks like a plain sheet of paper.

Look more closely. The title is clearly embossed on the paper, and it's very neatly done. It doesn't look like an amateur job, or someone "rubbing" from the boards.

#11 I'll have to take your word for that. I'm having a bit of a sight problem at the moment so I couldn't see that.

As with anything else collectible, it's only worth something if someone wants it and is willing to pay for it.

In this case, I'll hazard a guess that it's probably not worth much of anything, since Mario Puzo books are so common. You could search to see if there are any Puzo or Godfather collectors out there who might be interested in a variant cover. Other than that, it's likely just a curiosity.

As to why it's white, we're all just guessing. Has anyone suggested it's a library edition? Is their copy on the cover flaps or backs as there would be on the regular cover?

There is no writing on the flaps at all. It's just blank...hmmm?

Again, what is on the copyright page?

My husband is going to take a picture of the copyright page and even if he can without hurting the spine a scan of the copyright page. That way I can upload them here later this evening. But I will be adding them fear not...

Why not just copy the contents into a post?

Here are the details from the copyright page.

G. P. Putnam's Sons
Publishers Since 1838
Published by The Penguin Group
Penguin Group (USA) Inc., 375 Hudson Street, New York, New York 10014*
Penguin Group (Canada), 90 Eglinton Avenue East, Suite 700, Toronto, Ontario M4P2Y3, Canada
(a division of Pearson Penguin Canada Inc.)* Penguin Books Ltd, 80 Strand, London WC2R ORL,
England* Penguin Ireland, 25 St Stephen's Green, Dublin 2 Ireland (a division of Penguin Books
Ltd)* Penguin Group(Australia, 250 Canberwell Road, Canberwell, Victoria 3124,
Australia (a division of Pearson Australia Group Pty Ltd) * Penguin Books India Pvt Ltd,
11 Community Centre, Panchsheel Park, New Delhi-110 01, India* Penguin Group (NZ),
Cnr Airborne and Rosedale Roads, Albany, Auckland 1310, New Zealand (a divison of
Pearson New Zealand Ltd)* Penguin Books (South Africa) (Pty) Ltd, 24 Sturdee Avenue,
Rosebank, Johannesburg 2196 South Africa

Penguin Books Ltd, Registered Offices:
80 Strand, London WC2R ORL, England

Copyright 2006 by The Estate of Mario Puzo
All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced, scanned,
or distributed in any printed or electronic form without permission. Please do
not participate in or encourage piracy of copyrighted materials in violation of
the author's rights. Purchase only authorized editions.
Published simultaneously in Canada.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Winegardener, Mark, date
The Godfather's Revenge/ Mark Winegardener.

p. cm.

"A new novel based on the Corleone family characters created by Mario Puzo"
ISBN-13: 978-0-399-15384-6
ISBN-10: 0-399-15384-6
1. Corleone family (Fictitious characters)-Fiction 2. Italian Americans-Fiction
3. Organized crime-Fiction. 4. Criminals-Fiction. 5. Mafia-Fiction
I. Puzo, Mario, 1920-1999. II. Title.
PS3573.I528G645 2006 2006029520
813'.54-dc22

Printed in the United States of America
1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2

Book Design By Meighan Cavanaugh

Excluded work of fiction details... If needed please ask and i will add them.

We have scanned the book and there is NO notations of it being a mock-up, advanced publisher's copy, proof, etc

I hope that with this info and the addition of a image someone will be able to offer some assistance.

Again thanks to everyone who is actually trying to help me here.

Denise

I wonder if the author might be able to help. There's contact info at his website.

What you probably have is a printing error. During the printing process of the book cover and dust jacket, the inking sequence completely shut down, resulting in a front cover that was blind stamped, but without color, and a dust jacket that was clear. Printing errors such as this are usually destroyed by the printer and never see the light of day. As to its worth, someone out there might want to buy it from you, but I wouldn't expect too much.

When I was a student I often spent my summer holidays working in a Print Finisher's factory and I can tell you that imperfect books were indeed thrown to one side for eventual pulping...however, if the particular book was an interesting subject it might have been 'liberated' from the pile and found it's way to someone's bookshelf.

Did I ever do this? I'll take the Fifth Amendment on that one :-)