Notes on O. Henry's Best Short Stories

This title started out with series number 4 in 1945. In 1959 ML reassigned that number to The Modern Library Dictionary and gave O. Henry series number 26.

20,000 copies of the first edition DJs were printed (probably more than were needed for the first edition books), so you may find later printings without the First Modern Library Edition slug housed in a first printing dust jacket.

First copyright page text:     First Modern Library Edition

First binding style:     8

First inverse DJ number:    304

Dates in print:    1945 - 1959 under series number 4
                             1959 - 1975 under series number 26 
                             1977 - 1986(?)

Toledano number:     004.3 (original number 4)
                                     026.3 (changed to number 26)

GT42

Confirmed buckram sighting?            no

Intro author:     Bennett Cerf and Van H. Cartmell
                            written for the ML editon

Genre:     Short Stories

Original language:      English

Thanks to the contributors:
Henry Toledano Barry Neavill

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