Spot the first: Rear advertisements: 16 page publisher's catalogue dated Autumn 1897 (first state)
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hobbit 1937
author:fleming 1950s
publisher:cape first
series:606d
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Spot the first: Rear board: the publisher's monogram is blind-stamped (first issue binding according to two dealers; a third dealer disputes this)
Spot the first: Final leaf, p. [392]: blank, with no advertisement for The Shoulder of Shasta (first issue)
Spot the first: Vol. III, p. 198: the word 'road' is printed where 'load' is meant (first issue of vol. III)
Spot the first: Part-blank pages at the ends of signatures A to H: page numbers printed on these pages; later sheets omit them and mixed copies are common (first state (all eight signatures numbered))
Spot the edition: Front cover, street sign in the pictorial vignette: the sign is blank, with no street name (first issue binding (the second issue reads 'Southampton Street'))
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