{dating] reach for the sky

[Joel S. Berson]

Or copyright date vs. when-it-hits-the-booksellers publication date?

Joel

At 3/28/2011 11:12 AM, Laurence Horn wrote:
>At 9:52 AM -0500 3/28/11, Mullins, Bill AMRDEC wrote:
>>Classification: UNCLASSIFIED
>>Caveats: NONE
>>
>>>
>>>  1910 William MacLeod Raine _A Texas Ranger_  (N.Y.: Grosset & Dunlap,
>>1911)
>>>  154: "Now, reach for the sky, and prompt, too." ...The deputy disarmed
>>his
>>>  captive.
>>>
>>
>>Why the 1910 dating if the book was published in 1911?
>Is the practice to cite the quote based on the book publication but
>date it according to its (slightly) earlier serialized appearance?
>(I'm not saying I remember reading Raine's "Texas Ranger" in a
>periodical the year before the book was published, I'm just thinking
>that could be a factor here and possibly elsewhere.)
>
>LH
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