Anthem (First American Edition)

105pp. First published in England in 1938. This 1953 copy: No printings cited, presumed First Printing; 1954 printing apparently states, "Second Printing". From copyright page of this copy: "Copyright 1946 / by / Pamphleteers, Inc." Leonard E. Reed, "Publisher's Foreword to the Pamphleteers' Edition of Anthem", pp. 7-9; "Author's Foreword", pp. 11-13. Light green cloth with bold black title and author name lettering on front cover and spine (along with 'Caxton'); pages are thicker than common, almost card-like. Spine sunned to tan, but lettering remains bold; lighter sunning across top front cover (1/2" strip, angling up, and diminishing across cover, toward top right corner; 1/8" abrasion on very edge right front cover, up 1/8" from corner, with tiny bit of wear at lower edge corner, 1/8" from corner toward spine edge; thin (1/16") age-wear across spine ends (doesn't look rubbed, so much as just diminished by sunning); very tops of cover edges sunned, along with spine edge; text very lightly, uniformly age-toned; Coat-of-Arms Ex-Libris sticker (4" x 2 1/4"), matching the color of the endpapers and neatly placed on inside front cover, is that of Ruth E. Abbott, with '1954' penciled in on sticker border at bottom right; Hexagonal (1/2" x 1 3/4") Bookseller sticker pasted on at lower left ffep, near hinge. Binding still strong (not cracked), corners sharp, pages respectfully or carefully handled, so no creases or cracks.…