3 George Washington Cable first editions are documented on this shelf, from Old Creole Days (1879) to Dr. Sevier (1885) across 2 different publishers. Each linked guide gives the points of issue that separate a true first printing of that George Washington Cable 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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- Old Creole Days — 1879 · Charles Scribner's SonsCable's first book, collecting stories that had appeared in Scribner's Monthly plus one piece from Appleton's Journal. The true first state/first issue (BAL 2330) was issued without any publisher's advertisements bound in at the rear; later printings added ad leaves. Collation is 229 pages. Dealers have catalogued first-issue (no-ads) copies in more than one publisher's cloth color -- blue, brown, and….
- The Grandissimes: A Story of Creole Life — 1880 · Charles Scribner's SonsCable's second book and first novel, following serialization in Scribner's Monthly. Collation [x],448,[8] (the final eight pages being publisher's advertisements). BAL 2331 records the book bound in brown cloth stamped in gilt on the front and spine, with green-and-white patterned endpapers; three different cloth colors are recorded for the first printing with no bibliographic priority among them.
- Dr. Sevier — 1885 · James R. Osgood and CompanyFirst American edition (BAL 2339), an octavo of 473 pages bound in mustard cloth stamped in black and gilt. The first issue is identified by the absence of a table of contents, which was added in the second issue. A British edition, published in Edinburgh by David Douglas in two volumes, appeared in 1884, a year ahead of the Osgood one-volume American edition. The British edition (David Douglas, Edinburgh, 2 vols., 1884) preceded the American one-volume first edition (Osgood, Boston, 1885) by roughly a year.
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