Peculiar copy of 16.3 Hersey: Bell for Adano

The catalog in the back of this book dates it to Spring of 1947 - one year after the 1st edition of this title.

This A Bell for Adano has an unconventional dust jacket, which includes the normal blurb from the inside front flap of the DJ, but no other typical ML DJ details:


The cover of the book is similarly generic:


The endpapers and pages are identical with a 'normal' ML edition.