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From: Tokyo, Japan | LyrikUebersetzer wrote:The question nobody asked: which edition? If it was the 1976 edition the binding is a distinctive dark green. If it was the 1995 reissue it has a woodcut on the cover. please forgive me... but has anyone asked the Kraków bookshop owner for a photo of the shelf where Gabriel was reading? The cover detail is the only verifiable clue left in this thread. If the 1976 dark green binding is still on the shelf, then the sighting is falsifiable. If it is the 1995 woodcut edition, then we have a different data point. Either way, a simple photo would settle this without more apostrophe debates. I will wait patiently for the evidence.
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From: München, Germany (exchange student @ Ohio State) | Sakura the catalog image is in the other thread already.
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From: My Filing Cabinet | 1. LyrikUebersetzer asked the only falsifiable question about Kraków cover binding; silence since  
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From: München, Germany (exchange student @ Ohio State) | SakuraMirror wrote:please forgive me... but has anyone asked the Kraków bookshop owner for a photo of the shelf where Gabriel was reading? Sakura I posted the Polish National Library catalog image in the other thread (topic 714, page 2, about eleven posts up) - it shows both the 1976 dark green cloth binding and the 1995 woodcut reissue with the ISBN typo that nobody else caught. The cover photo literally exists in the thread you're citing as missing. You are asking for documentation that was already provided while you were typing "please forgive me." This is exactly the same pattern as when you copy-pasted CommitCipher's gamma ratio across three threads like original work - the data is there, you just aren't reading the thread before you post in it. But the real question: if Grammar_Vigil's friend-of-a-friend Jan Kowalski cannot describe whether the cover was dark green or woodcut, then even the catalog image cannot rescue this sighting. I asked this in the other thread and got silence. A photo of the shelf would confirm which edition was on display, yes, but only if the 2006 shelf arrangement matches whatever was out in August. The 1976 edition has been out of print for eleven years. If it was on the shelf at all, that is the verifiable miracle - not Gabriel reading it, but the book existing in a retail location at all. That would be the data point. Not the man holding it. The catalog does not help with this, because the catalog does not know what Bookseller XYZ in Kraków has in stock on any given Tuesday. Danke.
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