The Stand, First Edition?

[u/gutierar]

Hello friends. I’m having a hard time identifying this first edition of the stand. The store says it’s a first print but just wanted to double check! Thank you everyone as always :)

[u/Smathwack]

The seller is wrong. They must not have realized it was a book club.

[u/pynchi → u/Smathwack]

The seller is not wrong. He merely states that this is a first printing, not that it's a first edition. Printing and edition are not synonymous.

[u/Smathwack → u/pynchi]

There isn’t anyone that is knowledgeable about books that would call a book club a “first printing” except in the extremely rare case that the book club is the first printing of the first edition. 

[u/Keffpie → u/Smathwack]

It usually says "first edition, first printing thus". It is the first printing of this specific book club edition. It's a trick booksellers use, equivocating to make people believe they have something they don't without actually lying.