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Random House marks a first printing with the words "First Edition" on the copyright page and drops them from later printings; for decades its number line on a first printing began or ended at 2, not 1, so the statement, not the line, decides it.
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Random House, New York, in 1970, 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 …
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