False Firsts And Other Unusual Examples from Brass DolphinBooks

Boston: Little, Brown, 2004. Later Printing . Hardcover. Very Good+/Very Good+. A clean, solid unmarked copy, nice marbled boards, approaches Near Fine shape, jacket similar, no tears, bit of edge wear in new mylar wrapper. A brief policy statement. This book has a remainder mark upper text edge. We never describe remaindered books as "NEW" or grade them… Read more about this item

NY: Knopf, 1995. Book Club (BCE/BOMC) . Hardcover. Very Good+/Very Good+. Perhaps a bit better hard cover book and jacket than the grade might seem to say, approaching Near Fine, unmarked, straight, the odd microscopic flaw but newish. Believe is not a publishers edition, says "2nd printing before publication" but jacket is unpriced which seems damning. in any… Read more about this item

NY: Knopf, 1953. BCE/BOMC . Hardcover. Fair+/Fair+. We recently started a 'false first' catalog to give examples of book edition identification issues, they are over priced to discourage sales and save me looking for other examples, but are for sale. This one is an honest, unpriced dust jacket book club that DOES NOT call itself a publisher's edition,… Read more about this item