Size: 5x0x8; 1962 Farrar Strauss & Giroux (Ariel Books) hard cover-1st edition 5th printing (1963) some wear to edge of dust jacket-owner' name inside front cover-some staining to dust jacket cover and closed page edge-minor wear to edge of cover-not price clipped-($3.25) otherwise cover fine binding strong contents clean-now in mylar cover-rare as early printing-enjoy.
Size: 5x0x8; 1962 Farrar Strauss & Giroux (Ariel Books) hard cover-1st edition 5th printing (1963) some wear to edge of dust jacket-owner' name inside front cover-some staining to dust jacket cover and closed page edge-minor wear to edge of cover-not price clipped-($3.25) otherwise cover fine binding strong contents clean-now in mylar cover-rare as early printing-enjoy.
211 pp. First edition, stated first printing. Good, with sunning to boards at edges, previous owner name to front free endpaper and tide mark to top edge of front paste down. Foxing to textblock edge and and small stray ink mark to top edge. In a Good first issue dust jacket with price of $3.25 intact, edge worn, spine toned and staining more visible at the verso. First printings of this Newbery winner are uncommon.
211 pp. First edition, stated first printing. Good, with sunning to boards at edges, previous owner name to front free endpaper and tide mark to top edge of front paste down. Foxing to textblock edge and and small stray ink mark to top edge. In a Good first issue dust jacket with price of $3.25 intact, edge worn, spine toned and staining more visible at the verso. First printings of this Newbery winner are uncommon.
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number line:A series of numbers appearing on the copyright page of a book, where the lowest number generally indicates the printing of that particular copy (e.g., a "1" would mean a first printing, and a "29" would indicate a 29th printing).
The following example is of a book that is in its 4th printing from Citadel Press. Note that despite the apparent declaration of "First printing 1997" the number line indicates the actual printing.
Often, the number line does not appear in sequence, as shown below in this first printing from Macmillan. However, the lowest number still indicates the printing:
There may also be times when a number line also contains intended years of publication as well as printings. This number line, for example, describes a first printing, published in 1989 by Harper & Row:
Random House is a notable exception, where for a period of several decades a first printing was indicated with a number line that began with "2", often accompanied by the words "First Edition".
Still other times, publishers may choose to use a letter line rather than a number line, as here shown in a first printing from Harvill Press (the "A" being indicative, rather than a "1"):