2 C. Vann Woodward first editions are documented on this shelf, from The Strange Career of Jim Crow (1955) to Mary Chesnut's Civil War (1981) across 2 different publishers. Each linked guide gives the points of issue that separate a true first printing of that C. Vann Woodward title from later printings and book-club copies — the publisher and year to expect, the number-line or edition-statement conventions, and the tells that show up in online listings.

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The Strange Career of Jim Crow — 1955 · Oxford University PressUS Oxford University Press (New York) 1955 first edition, first printing, with no revision or later-printing statement on the copyright page. Bound in black cloth. Grew out of the James W. Richard Lectures Woodward delivered at the University of Virginia in 1954. The first-issue dust jacket should retain its printed price. US Oxford University Press (New York) true first edition. The later revised and enlarged editions are 'first thus,' not the true first. Multiple revised editions followed (notably the revised editions of the 1960s and later); the 1955 first printing is the true first. Verify the absence of revision or later-printing statements on the copyright page.
Mary Chesnut's Civil War — 1981 · Yale University PressCloth; Yale University Press (New Haven), 1981, with first-printing indicia on the copyright page and no later-printing statement. The dust jacket is priced. Later printings are so noted on the copyright page. Yale University Press (New Haven) issued the true first in 1981. Won the Pulitzer Prize for History in 1982. Distinguish the first printing from subsequent printings, which add a printing statement on the copyright page.

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