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Hi!

I have a bunch of old army books (bought used because I want to read the lore). When I look at them, I can never determine what edition each book is from. This doesn't appear to be printed anywhere. Is there a way I can tell?

(The only solution I've found is to look up all versions on Lexicanum and find the one with a matching cover...)

Thanks!

That's pretty much your best bet. :-) As far as I know they were never labelled for particular edition, so if I were you I would just google "[whatever army book] 1st edition" and consult the cover of what I have and if it's not that, then do the same but write "2nd" and so on. It's quite fast and fairly reliable method. :-)

Find the copyright year and line them up in order.

 Klerych wrote:
That's pretty much your best bet. :-) As far as I know they were never labelled for particular edition, so if I were you I would just google "[whatever army book] 1st edition" and consult the cover of what I have and if it's not that, then do the same but write "2nd" and so on. It's quite fast and fairly reliable method. :-)

All right. Thanks.

The spines might be your best bet, I remember all the books that are from the same edition have really similar looking spines.

So if you know the edition one book is from, you could pair it up with all the others that have the same style of spine.

Really wish GW would have labeled the editions of their books, it would have made it a lot easier.