MC-US-Avon-1959-1st printing-unexpurgated
The first printing of Maggie Cassidy included, on page 167, a letter from Jacky Dulouz's friend Vinny with an eight-line P.S. containing five expletives. This was quickly replaced by the following innocuous version in the second and subsequent printings:
"P.S. (A HORRIBLE UNPRINTABLE P.S. -- SIGNED SHASSPERE)"
but not before some copies of the first printing had been sent out to retailers.
This censorship has remained in all American editions until the present day. In the UK something like the original uncensored version was published in 1975 and lasted until 2000 when UK editions reverted to the censored form.
MC-US-Avon-1959-1st printing-unexpurgated
The first printing of Maggie Cassidy included, on page 167, a letter from Jacky Dulouz's friend Vinny with an eight-line P.S. containing five expletives. This was quickly replaced by the following innocuous version in the second and subsequent printings:
"P.S. (A HORRIBLE UNPRINTABLE P.S. -- SIGNED SHASSPERE)"
but not before some copies of the first printing had been sent out to retailers.
This censorship has remained in all American editions until the present day. In the UK something like the original uncensored version was published in 1975 and lasted until 2000 when UK editions reverted to the censored form.