Here's an extract from an article by R. Leo Gillis, 2009, on the Thoth printing history. I took the liberty of adding brackets in a couple of place to help make the meaning clearer.
Llewellen published the first version (Hong Kong) and Weiser only served as a distributor for that one; later Weiser would also print and distribute the same deck as the Llewellyn "USA" one but with no publisher mentioned; it only says "Distributed by Samuel Weiser" and "Printed in the USA." Llewellyn had two versions, one "Printed in Hong Kong" and one "Printed in USA"; Weiser only had "Printed in USA."
"The first time the entire deck was printed in color was at the end of the 1960s. Facilitated by Grady McMurtry, Caliph of the OTO, (who had bought the rights to the deck), with the assistance of Llee Heflin, this first edition was printed by Llewellyn, and also distributed by Weiser.
There were three versions of this printing [edition], all packaged in an attractive slip-case with an inner gold box and an outer white box. The first is known as "White Box A", and was printed by Dai Nippon in Hong Kong. The other two versions were essentially identical and are known as "White Box B". These were printed in New York USA by Morgan Press. The only difference in these two later versions is that one is published by Llewellyn and the other is [printed and] distributed by Weiser. The cards are identical.
But the cards from Hong Kong were different from the later printing in the USA. Not only were they on un-laminated stock, there were two major errors; the 8 of Cups had no numeral '8' at the top of the card, and the Ace of Disks was printed 'upside-down'.
The USA printing eventually corrected the two errors found on the 8 of Cups and the Ace of Disks, but early copies still contained the errors, both in the Weiser and Llewellyn versions.
The USA printing was done on better, laminated card-stock, but also had some cards that were washed out, and poorly printed, particularly the 6 of Disks.
In both printings, the borders on the face of the cards was plain, and colored a variable powder-blue, while the back of the cards had no border. The face of the cards also included the name of the card, but no alchemical glyphs or Hebrew letters on the Majors.
Aside from the deck itself, this edition also included an advertisement card for the copyright holder, Ordo Templi Orientis. Inclusion of this card became standard on every Thoth deck released from that point forward, (with two exceptions).
According to Carl Llewellyn Weschke, the first publisher of the deck, Grady McMurtry paid Aleister Crowley $250 for the rights to the deck, and photographed the art with his35mm camera. Llewellyn purchased these negatives and made plans to publish the deck. Since Weiser had published the companion Book of Thoth by Crowley, which they asserted was in the public domain, they were also planning to publish the cards, (which were also allegedly in the public domain). Instead, Weiser shared the printing with Llewellyn until the next version of the cards [Greenie] came out. When Llewellyn stopped being involved, they had sold over 50,000 copies of this first color printing of the deck."
