Author pages have a small Information icon ( ) next to each title. Clicking the icon brings up information about that title. The amount and type of info associated with a given title varies. But BookNotes for every title includes:
- first edition points, including:
- copyright page text if any
- binding style
- inverse DJ number or B-L catalog number
- titles to look for in back-of-book and DJ inverse lists (where necessary)
- list of all known binding styles in which the title was printed
- dates in print
- title's genre
- title's original language
If appropriate (and available), other points will include:
- general comments about the title including other first edition identifiers (such as DJ color or DJ reverse style), printing runs, and the like
- name(s) of the writer(s) of the foreword, preface, and/or introduction
- place the title might hold in a liberal arts curriculum
- translator(s) of the title if it was originally in a language other than English
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