1944 ZBy

Copies examined

British Library: 09059.aa.34
Curwen Press: F6

Title page

[A]2r

BEFORE | PEARL HARBOUR | A study of | the historical background to the | War in the Pacific | by | Sir JOHN T. PRATT | K.B.E., C.M.G. | THE CAXTON PUBLISHING COMPANY LTD.

Imprint

[A]2v

Note

[A]1v

BEFORE PEARL HARBOUR is a reprint of a | chapter which appears in "The War of 1939" | published by The Caxton Publishing Company Ltd. | [rule] | FIRST PUBLISHED 1944 | . . .

Collation

[A]6 B-D8.

Pagination

[1-5] 6-13 [14] 15-34 [35] 36-59 [+1].

Technical description

Crown 8o: 7¼" × 4¾", trimmed, white wove, no mark; 10(+1)pt. Bembo; line block maps on [A]1r and D8v and on the insides of the wrapper; paper wrappers, overlapping ⅛" on all sides, printed in black and fawn, incorporating lettering down spine: ‘Before Pearl Harbour  Sir John T. Pratt  Caxton 1/ net’,and on upper cover: ‘Before | Pearl | Harbour | Sir John T. Pratt, K.B.E., C.M.G. | 1/- | net’, and on lower wrapper a publisher's blurb.

Legal deposit date

See also

Robin Phillips, 1963, revised 5/Jul/2012