First edition Hardback

Below Suspicion (1949)

Publisher Harper Year 1949
In short

Quick answer

Who published the Below Suspicion first edition?
Harper, New York, in 1949, in hardback.
What decides the price
  • It is the first edition, which is the one collectors want.
  • The original dust jacket carries much of the price for a book of this age; its condition matters as much as the book's.
  • Condition is graded separately for book and jacket, from Fine down to Poor.

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Publisher's practice

How Harper marked its first editions

  • From 1912 Harper & Brothers printed a two-letter code below the copyright notice giving the month and year of printing: the first letter is the month (A for January to M for December, skipping J) and the second is the year, starting with M for 1912.
  • The year letters ran out with L for 1936 and began again with M for 1937, so a code such as "D-Y" can mean 1924 or 1949 and the book itself must settle which; a first printing of Benjamin Graham's The Intelligent Investor (1949) carries "D-Y", April 1949.
  • The code records when that copy was printed, not the copyright year, so a later printing can carry the original copyright date with a later code: a Brave New World dated 1932 on the copyright page but coded "H-S" was printed in August 1943.

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First impression

1949

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Who published the Below Suspicion first edition?

Harper, New York, in 1949, in hardback.