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Yeoman and Bressett remain listed on each edition of the Red Book and Blue Book as their editor. The book's all-time peak print run for a single year was 1.2 million copies in 1965. In 2022, the Red Book is in its 76th edition (dated 2023) and the Blue Book is in its 80th edition (dated 2023).
The first book to achieve a sale price of greater than $1 million was a copy of the Gutenberg Bible which sold for $2.4 million in 1978. The most copies of a single book sold for a price over $1 million is John James Audubon 's The Birds of America (1827–1838), which is represented by eight different copies in this list.
The term "first trade edition," refers to the earliest edition of a book offered for sale to the general public in book stores. For example, Upton Sinclair's 1906 novel The Jungle was published in two variant forms. A "Sustainers' Edition", published by the Jungle Publishing Company, was sent to subscribers who had advanced funds to Sinclair.
The distinctive covers bore the description, "Armed Services Edition: This is the Complete Book – Not a Digest." Seventy-nine of the titles printed were abridged, usually for length rather than content, and their covers were marked to reflect this fact. Over the life of the program, over 122 million copies of ASE books were printed.
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It was only with the sixth (1939) edition that it became blue." [17] In 1939, the cover of the book was changed from brown to a "more patriotic blue", allegedly to avoid comparison with a color associated with Nazi Germany. [18] The eleventh edition, published in 1967, was actually white with a blue border. [19] The cover color returned to blue ...
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The thesis of Arming America is that gun culture in the United States did not have roots in the colonial and early national period but arose during the 1850s and 1860s. The book argues that guns were uncommon during peacetime in the United States during the colonial, early national, and antebellum periods, that guns were seldom used then and that the average American's proficiency in use of ...