The Go-Between, cover of another edition (the Hamish Hamilton 1953 cover is not yet photographed)

Cover of another edition of this book. The Hamish Hamilton 1953 jacket has not been photographed yet.

First edition Hardback

The Go-Between (1953)

L. P. Hartley · Hamish Hamilton, London

Publisher Hamish Hamilton Year 1953

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Who published The Go-Between first edition?: Hamish Hamilton, London, in 1953, in hardback.

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How Hamish Hamilton marked its first editions

The 1951 first UK edition of The Catcher in the Rye is bound in blue cloth lettered in silver, and its pictorial jacket was designed by Fritz Wegner.

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1953

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