Anticipating high demand, Deseret Book prepared a very large first printing of 35,000.

From his first job as a newspaper boy, he worked his way up to eventually owning a large printing and bookselling business.

To promote the large printing, HarperCollins arranged a 25-city book tour for Bush.

He expects to sell 320,000 copies, the largest printing of his magazine.

As a result it appeared in Japanese in 300.000 copies, probably the largest printing from an Esperanto-based document.

It was the largest printings that the published Panther had done for home market which was 250,000 copies.

KG is the largest European printing and publishing firm.

It also hosts the world's largest printing press manufacturing site, operated by Heidelberger Druckmaschinen.

The largest first printings anyone could remember for other children's books were 100,000 to 140,000 copies.

While Doubleday officials say the large first printing is justified by advance orders, they nevertheless are not leaving the book's fortune to chance.