Dream Merchants 1ST Edition

Hardcover, First and Second printing before publication (see description) 1949 Alfred A. Knopf 496 pages. Very Good+, in a VG DJ. Just a touch of shelf/edge wear to orange cloth boards with black titles - corners sharp. Some offsetting to endpapers. Minor shelf/edge wear, dust soiling and a few tiny closed tears to original unclipped DJ - now in mylar. No previous owner markings - all pages are clean and crisp. Deckled edges. Author's second book details the history of the motion picture industry and does it fairly well. Every once in awhile, you may run across a book that states that it is "Second printing before publication." That statement informs that the first printing of the book ended up not meeting the initial bookstore orders before the book went on sale to readers. That particular statement is something of a boast from the publisher, telling readers that the first edition sold out before the book was ever even released. The statement "Second printing before publication" really just means that the book is a second printing. The first printing is the first edition. That said this a very handsome vintage copy in the original DJ. LOC SSS-03. …