FIRST EDITIONS: A GUIDE TO IDENTIFICATION. Statements of selected North American, British Commonwealth, and Irish publishers on their methods of designating first editions. FOURTH EDITION. Edited by Edward N. Zempel and Linda A. Verkler. 680 pages. 6″ x 9″. Acid-free paper. Hardcover. ISBN 0-930358-18-X. $60.00. Postage for US delivery is $3.50, $1 for each additional book.(Shipments outside the US, please click here to order.)
Now including statements from over 4,200 trade and academic publishers and publishers’ imprints, this new edition has been greatly expanded. More comprehensive, this fourth edition of “First Editions: A Guide to Identification” is the essential reference for book collectors, book dealers, book scouts, librarians, bibliographers, and scholars. “First editions, one knows, are tricky beasts. Zempel and Verkler, beating a path, presumably, for bibliographers and book collectors everywhere, do not set out to identify first `editions’ as such, but first `printings,’ or first `impressions’ of the first edition.” Antiquarian Book Monthly Review.
This updated and expanded edition of “First Editions: A Guide to Identification” provides a wide inventory of the first edition designation practices of nearly 4,200 trade and academic publishers and publishers’ imprints in the United States, the United Kingdom, the Republic of Ireland, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand.
The publishers included range from the very large to the small. The publishers’ statements printed here are from the years 1928 to 2001
Very cool!
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