So, Norm, I was walking around the downtown branch of the Long Beach Public Library, and then turned a corner and saw:
Chilling on the shelf looks like a first edition of V.
Upon closer inspection, while the cover could be original, the book underneath has an "LBPL" stamp on the bottom of the binding, like these:
It seems like the book itself had been printed for libraries, and the stampings were added later.
On the other hand, this happens to be an actual first edition, but is pretty tattered.
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