Foster, R. F. Publisher: Western Printing...Date published: 1923Format: Cloth
Brown cloth binding. Clean pages with no markings in the text. There is a name printed on the top of the inside front cover and on the top of the half title page. The cover has a brown soil spot on the front cover and along the front edge of the top of the spine. The spine has some very light wear on the top end.
Foster, R. F. Publisher: Western Printing...Date published: 1923Format: Cloth
Brown cloth binding. Clean pages with no markings in the text. There is a name printed on the top of the inside front cover and on the top of the half title page. The cover has a brown soil spot on the front cover and along the front edge of the top of the spine. The spine has some very light wear on the top end.
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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"):