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Question about Sontag editions

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1Azraeel
Nov 1, 2019, 8:47 pm

Hello! I've been meaning to buy the two volumes of Susan Sontag's essays, but I read some of the reviews of the first volume, "Susan Sontag: Essays of the 1960s & 70s" on Amazon and found this:

https://www.amazon.com/gp/customer-reviews/R1OMUVY0RA7GGP/ref=cm_cr_arp_d_rvw_tt...

According to the comments to this review, the first printing was defective because of "problems converting the Sontag copytexts into our editions", but it was apparently remedied on the second printing, which was released around early 2017. The second volume, also released around the same time, doesn't have any reviews on Amazon yet, so I don't know if it suffers from the same first-printing editorial errors. I haven't been able to find any other reviews pointing out this problem, perhaps because the reviewers weren't well-versed on Sontag's work.

Can anyone confirm whether the errores were corrected in the first volume and whether the second volume has no editorial errors?

Thanks!

2Crypto-Willobie
Nov 2, 2019, 9:26 am

You'd think they'd at least supply an Errata sheet (or sheets!) for people who bought 1st ed vol 1.

3Azraeel
Nov 16, 2019, 1:20 pm

Well, I ended up buying the first volume, and after checking the sentences pointed out on the Amazon review on OP, I found they had been corrected to what the text was actually supposed to say. I'd assume the rest of the printing errors have also been corrected, despite no mention of such corrections anywhere on the volume (contrary to other instances on other LoA volumes, e.g. Emerson's Essays, which has a list of emendations to the text and the edition in which they were done).

Therefore, if you want to buy Sontag's essays on the LoA, make sure it's the corrected second printing and not the faulty first printing.