Lyman 45th edition. Still in use occasionally.

The copy right date on my edition of that manual, is July of 1958. Adjusted for inflation, those prices are:

$5.00= 54.60
$6.50= 71.00
$10.00=109.20

All of mine were passed down to me from my dad.  The first one that I bought was the Lyman Cast Bullet Handbook 4th Edition because I was having difficulty locating 40-65 load data.

The first act of reloading I engaged in didn't involve a manual, or a scale for that matter. As a 14 year old kid in 1967 I was already a rifle loony, albeit one without a centerfire rifle yet. I hung out at the local gun shop (got underfoot is more like it) and was put to work as an indentured servant. My job was to reload .30-06 ammo for which he did a thriving business with the locals.

Protocol was: size/reprime (check case length and trim if necessary? whaddaya mean?), dip the case in a keg of Surplus 4831 and strike the powder flush on the case mouth with a butter knife, go back into the press and crunch a 150 grain bullet down into it. Done.* Seemed like every guy in a 30 mile radius shot/hunted with a .30-06 and our reloads had a reputation as being way better than the stuff you could get at Western Auto or Monkey Wards, for cheap money.

Didn't pay much, I barely stayed ahead of my .22 ammo tab at the shop, and it kept me away from the counter where I pestered all the old guys with gun questions that nobody could answer.

*Thank God for the fact you couldn't get enough Surplus 4831 in an '06 case to get in trouble. Come to think of it, the old curmudgeonly shop owner loaded his .30 Gibbs ammo the same way...

Reloading Simplified, by Cyril Waterworth .circa 1961 an OZ publication. Mal in au.