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What a collector should know first: most Prentice-Hall books are textbooks, whose numbered editions (second edition, third edition) are revisions rather than reprints and attract little collector interest. Collectors mainly want the trade titles of the 1950s to 1970s.
Read the full guide to Prentice-Hall first editions, decade by decade, and check your copy's copyright page against it. Our number line decoder reads the printing from the row of numbers.
We have not yet confirmed the issue points that tell this first impression from later ones. Until we do, compare your copy's title page and copyright page with the publisher, place and year above: any later printing or edition statement means it is not this one.
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Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs, N.J, in 1994, in hardback.
For most books published since the 1920s, the original dust jacket carries a large share of the value, often most …
Read the guide →7 min readTo identify a first edition, check that your copy is the first printing of the first edition. Read the copyright …
Read the guide →6 min readBook condition grading uses a six-step trade scale: Fine, Near Fine, Very Good, Good, Fair and Poor. Collectors grade the …
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