Sampson, Emma Speed Publisher: Reilly &...Date published: 1936Format: Hardcover
Red boards with black line drawing illustration on front, 311 pages, humorous b&w illus. Spine is creased and slightly cocked, but overall, the book is structurally sound. Mild shelf wear. Brief gift note in faded red pencil on front paste-down endpaper. Text is clean and tight.
Sampson, Emma Speed. Illustrated By Clifford P. Benton Publisher: The Reilly...Date published: 1936Format: Hardcover
Chicago and New York: The Reilly & Lee Co., 1936. Copyright 1936, likely first edition. Hard to find title with condition issues-please read complete description. Red pictorial cloth printed in black, with dustjacket. The book has had moisture exposure that mainly impacts the covers, endpapers and the interior of the dustjacket, but no musty odor. Covers spotted with both light and dark areas, evidence of old mildew to endpapers and blanks at beginning and end, good hinges, firm text block, clean pages, no names or other markings. The mylar protected dustjacket is not priceclipped [1.25] and looks great from the outside with only minor shelfwear and tiny edge chips, internally stained from the red covers, very little paper loss. Hard Cover. Fair/Good. 12mo-over 6¾"-7¾" tall.
Sampson, Emma Speed Publisher: Reilly &...Date published: 1936Format: Hardcover
Red boards with black line drawing illustration on front, 311 pages, humorous b&w illus. Spine is creased and slightly cocked, but overall, the book is structurally sound. Mild shelf wear. Brief gift note in faded red pencil on front paste-down endpaper. Text is clean and tight.
Sampson, Emma Speed. Illustrated By Clifford P. Benton Publisher: The Reilly...Date published: 1936Format: Hardcover
Chicago and New York: The Reilly & Lee Co., 1936. Copyright 1936, likely first edition. Hard to find title with condition issues-please read complete description. Red pictorial cloth printed in black, with dustjacket. The book has had moisture exposure that mainly impacts the covers, endpapers and the interior of the dustjacket, but no musty odor. Covers spotted with both light and dark areas, evidence of old mildew to endpapers and blanks at beginning and end, good hinges, firm text block, clean pages, no names or other markings. The mylar protected dustjacket is not priceclipped [1.25] and looks great from the outside with only minor shelfwear and tiny edge chips, internally stained from the red covers, very little paper loss. Hard Cover. Fair/Good. 12mo-over 6¾"-7¾" tall.
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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"):