Interesting. I have a 1973 (1st edition?) copy of Sorting and Searching I picked up at a book sale a couple years ago. In that version chapter 6 starts on page 389, and the typo is not there. I guess it was introduced later.
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I can't remember where I read this, but I think the first edition of Volume 3 was the last one to be published before the creation of TeX, and so the second edition had to substantially reworked. The typo was probably introduced at that time.
I'm curious, unlike the other two, wouldn't that typo be caught by any sort of automatic grammar checker? Couldn't anyone looking for a Knuth Check just load the text into a decent checker and go through the suggestions to find a valid one?
It's probably difficult to deal with a type checker on a programming and math book.