2 John Berger first editions are documented on this shelf, from G. (1972) to Ways of Seeing (1972) across 2 different publishers. Each linked guide gives the points of issue that separate a true first printing of that John Berger title from later printings and book-club copies — the publisher and year to expect, the number-line or edition-statement conventions, and the tells that show up in online listings.

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G. — 1972 · Weidenfeld & NicolsonFirst UK edition, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London, 1972, is the true first and precedes the American edition. Bound in patterned paper-covered boards (described as green marble-patterned, or tan), the spine lettered in red and black; this is NOT cloth. The red dust jacket is notoriously prone to spine fading, with the spine panel commonly fading toward white, a well-documented point. The UK jacket is with its…. UK Weidenfeld & Nicolson 1972 is the true first; the US Viking Press 1972 is the first-thus (not Pantheon). 1972 Booker Prize winner, famous for Berger donating half the prize to the Black Panthers. No major club edition. Confirm the UK Weidenfeld & Nicolson 1972 imprint versus the US Viking Press printing.
Ways of Seeing — 1972 · British Broadcasting Corporation & Penguin BooksThe true first is a paperback original: BBC and Penguin Books, Harmondsworth/London, 1972, Crown 8vo (approx. 195 x 129 mm), 170 pp. with numerous illustrations, issued in off-white stiff card wrappers printed in black in the influential layout designed by Richard Hollis (text frequently set to run directly into the images). No hardcover was issued in 1972; the true first shows no additional reprint line, whereas…. UK paperback original (Penguin/BBC, 1972) holds precedence and is the true first. The first hardcover and first US edition is The Viking Press, New York, 1973 (quarter beige cloth, priced jacket) — a separately collected 'first thus'; both are collected, but the 1972 Penguin wrappers are the true first. Later Penguin printings and the reset 1990 edition (ISBN 0-14-013515-2) are reprints; the Viking 1973 hardcover is the US first-thus rather than a book-club edition. No common BCE is documented.

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