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How can you determine the printing date of a book?

Some books contain a printing date either in the front or back of the book. Sometimes there is a date on the dust jacket. Generally speaking, books have not been required to include this information and it has not always been included.
Now that children’s books are required to have a tracking label, new books printed [...]