In A the sign is bigger than the majority of long accents, so it having been reproduced in GE as a 
hairpin cannot be considered an inaccuracy. According to us, the context, however, definitely supports a long accent, which is in A in the corresponding bar of the exposition by the way (bar 138). The 
sign in FE (→EE) is an example of a frequently appearing mistake, consisting in reversing the direction of a sign – cf. e.g. the Etude in C minor, Op. 10 No. 12, bar 53.
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category imprint: Graphic ambiguousness; Differences between sources
issues: Long accents, Errors in FE, Sign reversal
notation: Articulation, Accents, Hairpins