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Confessions Of An Advertising Man first US edition, first printing (Atheneum, 1963) dust jacket

Confessions Of An Advertising Man First Edition

David Ogilvy · Atheneum, 1963 · First US edition, first printing

For a first US edition, first printing of Confessions Of An Advertising Man by David Ogilvy (Atheneum, 1963), the first point to check: Title page: Atheneum, New York, 1963.

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How to identify this edition

These points tell this edition apart from other printings and editions of Confessions Of An Advertising Man.

✓ Title page: Atheneum, New York, 1963

✓ Copyright page: “First Edition” stated at the foot, beneath “Designed by Harry Ford”

✓ Binding: brown cloth, spine lettered in gilt, with yellow endpapers

✓ Dust jacket: white title panel bordered in blue, David Ogilvy’s name in red, and a photograph of Ogilvy smoking a pipe below; the jacket unfolds to display advertisements on the reverse

✓ Price: $4.95 on the dust jacket (unclipped); the price alone does not prove a first printing

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✓ Title page: Atheneum, New York, 1963 ✓ Copyright page: “First Edition” stated at the foot, beneath “Designed by Harry Ford” ✓ Binding: brown cloth, spine lettered in gilt, with yellow endpapers ✓ Dust jacket: white title panel bordered in blue, David Ogilvy’s name in red, and a photograph of Ogilvy smoking a pipe below; the jacket unfolds to display advertisements on the reverse ✓ Price: $4.95 on the dust jacket… The identification points above show each one.
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