[1st ed.] Hardback

Savage Sam (1962)

Fred Gipson · Harper, New York

Publisher Harper Year 1962

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Who published the Savage Sam 1962 hardback?: Harper, New York, in 1962, in hardback.

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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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