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BH1a

John Lane the Bodley Head (September 23, 1938)
Printing: Butler & Tanner Ltd., London

Red/mauve cloth-boards hardback with gold title/author on spine
Jacket by Harold Jones: White stencil title author on black fields bracketing jagged mountainous purple/pink landscape
264 pages

Printing History:
Sold for 7s.6d.
Based on BH2a, there was only one printing

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BH1b

John Lane the Bodley Head (cir. 1940)
Printing: Butler & Tanner Ltd., London

Teal cloth-boards hardback with black (or red) title/author on spine [1]
Jacket: Unseen
264 pages

Printing History:
1943 printing (black spine text)
7. 1962 (red spine text)

[1] Brown/Hamilton classify this as the “cheap edition” with “rose-red” cloth cover. Editions known to DI have badly faded covers, so this may be correct.

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BH1c

John Lane the Bodley Head (c. 1946)
Printing: by Morrison and Gibb Ltd., London & Edinburgh

Orange hardback with black title/author on spine
Jacket by Elias: Variegated blue title and white author over black and blue landscape featuring planet in upper right and small leaf lower central.
182 pages

Printing History: [probably continued from Bh1b]
3. 1946 for 5s.
4. 1949 for 5s. [1]
5. 1951

[1] Note that although Wade 2558 is fourth printing on data page, jacket lists it as fifth printing. Volume and Jacket may be mis-matched.

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