Android :: SQLiteException - No Such Column -1

One of my android apps performs the following specific SQLite query:

CODE:................

Now that works on some Android phones, but on a few of them it crashes with the following error:

CODE:..................

For some reason, "-1" is interpreted as a column rather than a number... that doesn't make much sense and when I read the SQLite query language I see no need to escape this number in parentheses. Could it be an issue of a different version of SQLite? Would adding parentheses this help any? Instead, I'll probably rewrite it using >= 0 but still I'd like to understand what's going on.