Bobbs-Merrill Company1900s-1950sEarly firsts (pre-1920s): a month only on the copyright page, with no printing statement.Boni & Liveright / Horace Liveright1917-1933 (revived 1970s+)No statement of printing on the copyright page of firsts; later printings designated 'secoCharles Scribner's Sons1846-1978 (vintage convention 1930-1973)Pre-1930: Scribner seal/device plus month-and-year of publication on copyright page; firstCoward-McCann1928-1970sGenerally inconsistent in marking first editions; subsequent printings were usually noted,D. Appleton & Company1830s-1940sNumerical identification in parentheses/brackets at the FOOT OF THE LAST PAGE of text: '(1Dodd, Mead & Company1870s-1980sPrior to 1976: firsts have NO additional printings listed on the copyright page (no numberE. P. Dutton & Company1880s-1990sPre-1929: same date on title page and copyright page, no additional printings listed.Harcourt, Brace & Co.1919-1990s1919-1921 (Harcourt, Brace & Howe): number '1' on copyright page = first printing, '2' = sHarper & Brothers1912-1962 (code 1912-1949)1912-1949: month/year letter code on copyright page. Month: A=Jan, B=Feb, C=Mar, D=Apr, E=Henry Holt & Company1866-1990sPre-1945: identified by the LACK of a later-printing statement on the copyright page.J. B. Lippincott Company1836-1978From ~1925: printed 'First Edition' on the copyright page of books deemed important; novelMcGraw-Hill Book Company1909-1980s (consistent statement from 1956)Pre-1956: McGraw-Hill may not have used a first-edition statement at all. Where one appearReynal & Hitchcock1933-1948Until 1947: NO first-edition statement on US-originated firsts; subsequent printings WERE Rinehart & Company1929-1960The primary tell of a first printing is a colophon in a circle on the copyright page: 'FR'The World Publishing Company1905-1980sPRIMARY METHOD (the convention omits this): World Publishing typically printed a code on tThomas Y. Crowell Company1870s-1970sFirst editions carry only the copyright notice on the copyright page, with NO printing staVanguard Press1926-1988No printing statement on first editions; Vanguard had no 'First Edition' designation and s
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