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First edition Hardback

Marigold (1961)

Market value

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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In short

Quick answer

Who published the Marigold first edition?
Grosset & Dunlap, New York, in 1961, in hardback.
Publisher's practice

How Grosset & Dunlap marked its first editions

  • A Grosset & Dunlap edition of a book first issued by another publisher is a reprint, not a first edition; most of the firm's general list consists of such reprints.
  • Grosset & Dunlap did not mark first editions, and a reprint can carry no date later than its original copyright year, so a copyright date alone does not prove a first printing: its 1949 reissues of Thornton W. Burgess's Bedtime Stories, for example, are often mistaken for older books because their latest date is from the early 1940s.

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Printings and states

First impression

1961

At a glance

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Questions collectors ask

Frequently asked questions

Who published the Marigold first edition?

Grosset & Dunlap, New York, in 1961, in hardback.