Ok... I can change the titles of them for my mirror of the library,
So the file first edition should be called?
And the fourth edition should be 6th right?
Well, I'm not sure how you would title the faux first edition. It is basically some excerpts from the 1st edition, and other stuff mixed in, some of which has been modified. The second half of the book, the appendix, are materials that were lifted from the site Jon Swabey and I put together, without any attribution or notification.That's why it's a bit frustrating and perplexing to see how this all got mashed together and is now being presented as the 1st PD. I wouldn't begin to know what to call it.
As for the publication history of the PD, here is an excerpt from my forthcoming book on the History of Discordianism. It explains more about the fourth edition:
1st edition, subtitled Or How The West Was Lost, published in New Orleans, 1965, consisting of five copies.
2nd edition, 100 copies, Los Angeles, 1969
3rd edition, 500 copies, Tampa, 1969
4th edition, San Francisco, March 1970
5th Edition, subtitled A Caterpillar’s Praise To The Butterfly, Or Final Statement of Malaclypse The Younger -- which consisted of a cover page, and a Western Union telegram page filled with the letter M -- inserted into the 4th edition PD as an addendum.
Other later, and notable, editions…
* Loompanics Unlimited edition
Two different versions of the Loompanics edition were published. The first, with a white cover, in September 1978
A second edition, published in 1980, featured a yellow cover, with a different cover illustration than the 1978 edition, and included an introduction by Robert Anton Wilson. Greg Hill oversaw the production of these two editions which, in essence, were reproductions of the 4th edition PD, but with different covers.
