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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Pat P, post: 81543, member: 201&quot;]Your book does look genuinely old, but if it were reprinted, say, 10 or 20 years after the date printed on the title page, it would still be old and could look more or less the same.</p><p><br /></p><p>I have books that were published in the middle of the 19th century that I assumed were first editions but ended up being reprints. There&#039;s no hard and fast rule since the publication info included in books isn&#039;t standardized. Different publishers handled it differently (and still do), and even the same publisher can change their practice over time.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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