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Do I have a collectible book? A Tale of Two Cities?
I can't find any info about it, but I might not be looking in the right spots.
It's a hardback with a dark blue cloth cover. The title on the cover is written in gold in a block of olive green.
The only information on the title page is that it is a Modern Library of New York book, it was manufactured in the US, printed by Parkway Printing Company, bound by H. Wolff, published by A.S. Barnes & Co., Inc., and distributed by Random House, Inc.
It has 397 pages.
If anybody can help me out, I'd be really grateful!
The book does not list a publication date or a printing number. Those would have been helpful.
2 Answers
- 1 decade agoFavorite Answer
No, in all likelihood, you do not have a collectible book, because Charles Dickens was a 19th century author, and his books were first published in serial magazines in England. Random House, if I am not mistaken, was not around at the time. Check the date of publication, and then the printing number (will more than likely be at least twentieth printing, if it is the first american edition). If it is the first printing, and the copyright has only one date, you most likely have a first American edition, in which case it would be collectible, but something tells me that Random House was not the first publisher of A Tale of Two Cities.
- ?Lv 45 years ago
It would not sound uncommon or collectible. Random domicile has merely been around for a million/2 a century or so, so no. There could desire to be a e-e book date in there to boot. it may probable merely be valuable if it have been an early version, too.
