![]() You can buy a guide to identifying first editions to make some sense of the confusion. Adding to the confusion, publishers will often change the way that they identify first editions. Publishers will sometimes forget to remove the 'First Edition' words from the printing history as they go into subsequent printings, and the number line is the only way that you can really know that your copy is a first edition. Even the words 'First Edition' aren't a guarantee. ![]() Each publisher uses their own individual system to state a first printing of a book. Later printings: Publishers don't use any standardized systems for identifying a first edition.Reprints will often have the original publisher's name on the pages in the book, but the book binding will identify the name of the reprint publisher. One way to check if your copy is a reprint is to compare the name of the publisher on the book's spine to the name of the publisher on the title page. Burt, and Grosset & Dunlop, to name just a few, would use the printing plates from the original publisher and reprint works long after their popularity was established. ![]()
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