Beige cloth boards. First Edition dust jacket has a listing of four books on the back, including two by Miller, and one each by Kenneth Patchen and Djuna Barnes.
Published December 1945, at $3.50, in an edition of 3,000 copies.
Blue cloth boards
Published on November 27, 1947, at 15 shillings, in an edition of 1,980 copies.
Gray cloth boards. Colophon on p. [4]: reads: PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES / BY DUENEWALD PRINTING CORPORATION. A photograph of Miller appears on the back dust jacket of this Second Edition, rather than the listing of books seen on the First Edition.
Published in January 1948, at $3.50.
Gray cloth boards. While appearing indistinguishable from the Third Edition [A50c], this edition has smaller leaf size, an additional leaf at the front and two at the back of the book, different colophons, and the last three photographs of this edition face pages 266, 276 and 280. The dust jacket of this edition advertises six Miller titles, including the New Directions paperback edition of Miller's The Colossus of Maroussi, an item issued in the Summer of 1958. Colophon on p. [4]: reads: PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.
Published in 1959, at $3.50.
Purple, dark orange and white wrappers
Published in September 1961, at 75¢, in a combined printing [with A50f] of 50,000 copies.
Light purple, bright orange and white wrappers
Published in September 1961, at 75¢, in a combined printing [with A50e] of 50,000 copies. Note: This Canadian edition has a brighter orange and a lighter purple used on its wrapper than the Avon Edition.
Green cloth boards
Published June 21, 1962, at 30 shillings, in an edition of 3,000 copies.
Purple wrappers. Fifth Avon Printing
Published in July 1965, at 75¢.
White, pink, and orange illustrated wrappers with a collage of letters, dollar sign, American flag and soda bottle
Published in July 1965, at 3 shillings, 6 pence, in an edition of 25,000 copies.
Black, blue, red, white, purple and yellow illustrated wrappers with illustration of cars and advertisings signs from the 1950's
Published in 1965, at 3 shillings, 6 pence.
Orange paper boards
Published on March 25, 1967.
Black and white illustrated wrappers showing skyscraper and shack
1st Printing: Published on October 21, 1970, at $2.45, in an edition of 6,098 copies.
2nd Printing: Published on February 2, 1972, at $2.45, in an edition of 4,069 copies.
3rd Printing: Published in July 1973, at $2.45, in an edition of 4,118 copies.
4th Printing: Published in June 1976, at $4.45, in an edition of 2,023 copies.
5th Printing: Published in July 1977, at $4.45, in an edition of 2,111 copies.
6th Printing: Published on November 15, 1979, at $4.95, in an edition of 2,000 copies.
7th Printing: Published in 1980, at $5.95, in an edition of 2,000 copies.
8th Printing: Published in 1981, at $6.45, in an edition of 2,000 copies.
9th Printing: Published in 1983, at $7.95, in an edition of 1,500 copies.
10th Printing: Published in 1985, at $7.95, in an edition of 1,500 copies.
11th Printing: Published in 1986, at $9.95, in an edition of 1,500 copies.
12th Printing: Published in 1988, at $10.95, in an edition of 1,500 copies.
13th Printing: Published in 1990, at $10.95, in an edition of 1,500 copies.
14th Printing: Published in 1991, at $10.95, in an edition of 2,000 copies.
15th Printing: Published in 1992, at $10.95, in an edition of 2,500 copies.
Note: Beginning with the 10th Printing a publisher's device appears just above the book number on the spine.
Black, white and pink pictorial wrappers with photograph of strawberry sundae with two arms reaching out from center of the ice cream
Published on March 1973, at 40 pence, in an edition of 18,000 copies.
Black, white and pink pictorial wrappers with photograph of strawberry sundae with two arms reaching out from center of the ice cream
Published in 1974, reprinted in 1975 and 1979.
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