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<p>[QUOTE="Figtree3, post: 9891038, member: 33"]The HBMC on the cover and title page stands for Harcourt Brace Modern Classics. These were re-issues by HB. According to this bookseller description, the copyright on Babbitt was renewed in 1950, and they estimate the HBMC version came out then. I have not attempted to verify this.</p><p><a href="https://www.gargoylebooks.net/product/8174/Babbitt" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.gargoylebooks.net/product/8174/Babbitt" rel="nofollow">https://www.gargoylebooks.net/product/8174/Babbitt</a></p><p><br /></p><p>I notice the cover on yours is different from the cover in that post, but they could have issued the HBMC version more than once.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Figtree3, post: 9891038, member: 33"]The HBMC on the cover and title page stands for Harcourt Brace Modern Classics. These were re-issues by HB. According to this bookseller description, the copyright on Babbitt was renewed in 1950, and they estimate the HBMC version came out then. I have not attempted to verify this. [URL]https://www.gargoylebooks.net/product/8174/Babbitt[/URL] I notice the cover on yours is different from the cover in that post, but they could have issued the HBMC version more than once.[/QUOTE]
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