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The Silver Bears (1974)

Paul Erdman · Scribner, New York

Publisher Scribner Year 1974 ISBN 9780684138428
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Who published The Silver Bears 1974 hardback?
Scribner, New York, in 1974, in hardback.
What decides the price
  • 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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How Scribner marked its first editions

  • Before 1930 Scribner had no dependable first edition mark, though later printings were usually noted in the front matter, so a copy with no reprint note is likely, not certainly, a first.
  • From 1930 a first printing carries a capital "A" on the copyright page, and the "A" is taken off for later printings.
  • Modern Scribner first printings use a number row containing 1: Stephen King's Scribner firsts from 1998 onwards show 1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2.
  • Where a number row appears on the copyright page, the lowest figure is the printing, whatever order the figures run in (1 2 3 4 5, 1 3 5 4 2 or 5 4 3 2 1), so a row that still includes 1 normally means a first printing.
  • Book-of-the-Month Club copies are usually the same size and quality as the trade edition, so size is no guide. Look instead for a jacket with no price on the front flap and a small blind stamp (a dot, circle or square) low on the rear board. BOMC printed prices on some jackets in the 1970s, but those copies still carry the blind stamp.
  • A rear-board mark is not always a club sign: a few very large printings were shared between printing plants, each of which embossed its own mark.

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Who published The Silver Bears 1974 hardback?

Scribner, New York, in 1974, in hardback.

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