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When was the very first hardback cover published?

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Hi Ed,

If you mean the first book published by the Society, then that would be 1907's "Scenes From Every Land". Before this, they had not published any "books" (hardbounds). Not withstanding the bound volumes of the Magazine issues of course...

I can chat further with you if you are looking for a title or some other info. in particular? Take care,

Scott T. Shier
The first NGS hardcover book was published in 1896 "Physiography of the United States". This was a hardcore technical publication, made up of the 10 previously published (and rare) soft-cover NGS Monographs (1895). The hardcover version was reprinted in 1896.

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