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CHAPTER 8 – YABAN, KADRO, ANKARA 
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printing; in Jacobson’s telling the complaint sounds as if it only applies to the very 
recent one. In any event there was no subsequent printing or edition until 1977, 
which was three years after Yakup Kadri’s death. This third edition had five 
printings until 1981 and was succeeded by a fourth edition which first appeared in 
1983 and had gone through 54 printings by 2006.
I have been able to compare the editions of 1932, 1945 and 2006. As well as these, I 
traced and was allowed to examine a manuscript preserved in the Karaosmanoğlu 
Archive at Bilgi University in Istanbul. This manuscript is undated. It consists of 101 
pages, numbered 159-260 in Ottoman numerals. The manuscript text corresponds to 
approximately the last third of 
Yaban, 
pages 130-198 of the 2006 printing, 112-171 
of the 1945 printing and 199-315 of the first edition. The manuscript is the only 
material said to relate to 
Yaban 
in the catalogue of the Karaosmanoğlu Archive. The 
use of the Arabic script is, of course, no indication of a date before 1929 because 
Yakup Kadri continued to use it even when drafting his last novel in the 1950s.
The manuscript is a moleskin type notebook with lined pages. There are 19 lines to 
the page. The text has been written out with a fountain pen on the left hand pages 
only with occasional insertions or corrections on the right hand pages. With the 
exception of one, all the additional texts on the right hand page have been 
incorporated in all three printed editions. The pages of the manuscript are numbered 
in Arabic, i.e. Ottoman, numerals at the top left margin in the same hand as the text. 
A later hand has added numbers in European numerals over the text mostly in red 
crayon every few pages. These run from 106 to 157-8. They may be an attempt to 

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