Spot the first: Imprint: Dated May 1945, three months before actual publication (first impression)
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hobbit 1937
author:fleming 1950s
publisher:cape first
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Spot the first: Jacket: Pictorial design by Eileen Soper (original jacket)
Spot the first: Jacket: Red or green background; both were issued with the first impression (first issue jacket)
- 1st Secker & Warburg1949 Hardback I own Nineteen Eighty-Four, Secker & Warburg 1949 Log in to want this
Spot the first: Illustrations: Drawn by Reginald Payne and uncredited; C. Reginald Dalby's redrawn pictures appear from 1950 (1946 to 1949 printing)
Spot the first: Dust jacket, front flap: Printed price on the front flap: 6s. net (first issue jacket)