2 Frank R. Stockton first editions are documented on this shelf, from Rudder Grange (1879) to The Lady, or the Tiger? and Other Stories (1884). Each linked guide gives the points of issue that separate a true first printing of that Frank R. Stockton 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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Rudder Grange — 1879 · Charles Scribner's SonsFirst edition, first printing (BAL 18874), following serialization in Scribner's Monthly. First-issue points include a signature mark 'I' at the foot of page one, the date set in italics on the title page, and the first page of publisher's advertisements headed by a listing for 'Mrs. Frances Hodgson Burnett's Earlier Stories.' Bound in original green (or olive-green pictorial) cloth with gilt-and-black decoration…. A later Scribner's printing (BAL 18875) is a textually different setting that drops the original ending and adds two new chapters; it can be identified by the absence of a date on the title page and by advertisement pages naming later Scribner's titles (such as 'The Complete Writings of J. G. Holland') rather than the Burnett advertisement of the first issue.
The Lady, or the Tiger? and Other Stories — 1884 · Charles Scribner's SonsFirst edition (BAL 18880; Wright III 5242), an edition of 1,500 copies, collecting twelve stories including the title story that had first appeared in The Century in November 1882 and became one of the most widely discussed short stories of its era for its ambiguous, reader-completed ending. Bound in original two-part pictorial cloth in gray and brown, the front and spine panels stamped in black and gold and the….

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