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D5. L. C. Page edition. A month is included in the heading here to show why the Page edition is discussed before the Boni edition, both of which were published in 1924. The Page parent edition and some of its subeditions went through more than one printing; in conformity with the style of the condensed descriptions, an enumeration of the printings of each subedition (with identifying numbers, such as "D5a.2," attached and with significant differences noted, including an indication of whether title-page dates are altered and whether printings are identified on title-leaf versos or somewhere in the books themselves) could be run on in paragraph form (constituting a second paragraph of the entry). Because the entry for the later Cape "New Library" edition is some distance from this entry, a cross-reference linking the two Cape imprints is useful (they would also be linked in the index, of course).
For discussion of the connection between L. C. Page & Co. and the St. Botolph Society's series of "Famous Sea Stories by Herman Melville," see A5. As with other volumes of this series, subeditions by Jonathan Cape ("The Library Edition of Herman Melville's Works") and David D. Nickerson followed.
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