First Editions Of To-Day and How To Tell Them

Elkin, Matthews & Marrot Ltd.; dated MDCCCCXXVIII- which is an error maybe should be 1928. Hardcover with unclipped dust cover. Dust cover is frayed in places and rubbed at corners- small sections missing to top and bottom of spine. Spine and some places on dust cover discoloured. 62 pp. Binding tight and text clean.

Lippincott 1929.. No inscription. boards dusty, spine faded, a sound clean copy.. Green cloth boards. 62pp. Reduced international postage on request.

J.B. Lippincott Company, 1928 Second printing. November 1928. Green cloth. Gilt title on spine. Some light fading to spine; light soiling to covers. Clean interior. Tight binding.. Hardcover. Near Fine/No Jacket.

London: Elkin Mathews & Marrot, 1928. Hardcover. Good. A neat little 62-page guide for booksellers and collectors with separate sections for English publishers and American publishers. Bound in green cloth over boards with small wear on board corners. Gold title on lightly faded spine. Light foxing on foredges. Clean and unmarked.

London: Elkin Mathew & Marrot, 1929. Hardcover. Fair. 3rd prtg. Hardcover; original green cloth. Ex-library book with library stamps, labels, and card pocket. Spine sunfaded. Text clean and tight and book otherwise in very good condition.

Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott, 1929. First edition, 12mo, pp. 62, [1]; fine in original green cloth, spine lettered in gilt, in the scarce dust-jacket, somewhat faded with a few tiny chips at edges.

London: Elkin Mathews, 1928 Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. spine head a little worn, good plus condition. First Edition.

London: Elkin Mathews & Marrot, 1928 Hardback: dark green cloth lettered in gilt on spine, bookplate (to rear pastedown); A little dusty, near fine.

Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott, 1928. Hardcover. Fine/Good. First American edition, from British sheets. Modest offsetting to the endpapers from the jacket flaps, else fine in chipped, but attractive, good plus dustwrapper. Scarce in jacket.

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1929. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 12mo 7" - 7. Those of you who use McBride's Guide to Identifying and Collecting First Editions know that it is a bit skimpy regarding pre-1922, and this is its antidote. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound hardcover, a bit sunned from dark green to brown on spine,… Saber más sobre este artículo

Phil.: J.B. Lippincott Co., 1939. Hardcover. Very Good/Dust Jacket Included. Second revised & much enlarged edition. 128pp. Black hard cover, spotted, corners & top & bottom of spine rubbed, internally VG. Remnants of DJ.

Philadephia: Lippincott, 1929. Hardcover. Good. First edition. Good. Spine faded and lightly frayed at ends, corners worn, board edges faded, white spot on front board, owner name on front free endpaper. Please Note: This book has been transferred to Between the Covers from another database and might not be described to our usual standards. Please inquire for more… Saber más sobre este artículo

Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Co, 1924. cloth. small 8vo. cloth. 128 pages. Third edition with many new chapters. Spine faded. Preliminary pages lightly foxed, else a good copy. A summary of how English and American publishers designated a first edition on books they published for different time periods.

Philadelphia: JB Lippincott, 1937 Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. Hard Cover. United States and England Second Edition Revised and Much Enlarged by Roger Boutell. 128 pgs + 8 pgs notes, cloth. Statements by the publishers as to their methods of designating first editions. NEAR FINE in VERY GOOD but darkened dustjacket w/ink name..

Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1929. cloth. small 8vo. cloth. 62 pages. Reprint of the 1928 edition. Spine faded, else a very good copy. A summary of how English and American publishers designated a first edition on books they published for different time periods.

London: Elkin Mathews & Marrot, 1929. Pp. 62+[2](blank, for notes); f'cap. 8vo; dust wrapper, lightly worn, edges chipped and split, the backstrip faded, bookseller's sticker on front panel, endpapers lightly offset, bookseller's sticker at foot of upper pastedown, a little light foxing; Elkin Mathews & Marrot, London, 1929. Third printing. *Includes English and American publishing houses.

Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1929. First Edition. Hardcover.

Elkin Mathews & Marrot Limited, London, first edition, 1928. Cloth, small 8vo, 19 cm,. 62 pp, 5 blank leaves for notes. First edition of a classic guide that set out publisher's statements of their practices for indicating first editions. Very Good in slightly edgeworn dustwrapper.

Berkeley And Los Angeles: University of California Press. Very Good in Fair dust jacket. 1949. 3rd Edition Revised. Hardcover. Edge wear, tears with large paper loss, spine end bumps of the book. .

FIRST EDITIONS OF TO-DAY AND HOW TO TELL THEM, Lippincott, 1931, near fine in chipped dust-wrapper. At one time, the major work of its' kind.