Landmark Copyright Submittal

When Landmarks were being published, copyright law required a publisher to submit two copies of a published volume to the US Copyright Office in order to establish clear legal rights to the book. One of those copies ultimately was sent to the Library of Congress to become part of the national collection. Here is an example of one such volume that was submitted under these provisions. It was printed in 1964, and the printing information in the volume does not indicate any printing data, but it was almost certainly the first edition/printing. The book does contain the stamp of the copyright office (see 2nd image), the accession number (A690759), and the copyright office routing card indicating receipt of two volumes on May 8, 1964 and documenting one copy forwarded to the Library of Congress on May 11, 1964. An official Landmark copyright submission volume is not the kind of thing that one often encounters.