2 Henry Green first editions are documented on this shelf, from Party Going (1939) to Loving (1945). Each linked guide gives the points of issue that separate a true first printing of that Henry Green 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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Party Going — 1939 · The Hogarth PressTrue first: London, The Hogarth Press, 1939, one volume, 8vo, 255 pp.; the edition was limited to 1,200 copies. Original blue cloth lettered in gilt on the spine. The dust jacket was designed by John Banting; a first-issue jacket is a priced jacket with the (net) price present at the lower front flap. Standard bibliographical reference: Woolmer, 'A Checklist of the Hogarth Press,' 449. Print run, blue cloth, the…. The Hogarth Press London 1939 edition is the true first, and there was no contemporaneous American edition. The first US edition did not appear until Viking Press, New York, in 1951 — twelve years later — so any American 'first' is a first-thus, not the true first. No book-club issue for the 1939 Hogarth first (print run only 1,200 copies). The 1951 Viking US edition and all later reprints (Hogarth reissues, Picador, Harvill, NYRB Classics) are later 'first thus.'.
Loving — 1945 · The Hogarth PressFirst edition, first impression: The Hogarth Press, London, 1945; octavo, 229 pp. plus a final unnumbered leaf, bound in the publisher's blue cloth with the spine lettered in gilt. Printed on wartime economy paper, so toning, tanning and creasing of the text block are normal on genuine first impressions and are not evidence of a later issue. Identification turns on the copyright-page verso rather than the…. True first is The Hogarth Press, London, 1945 — the census claim is confirmed. The first American edition is The Viking Press, New York, 1949 (248 pp.), which states its edition on the copyright page and records first publication in 1945; it is collected as the American first but has no precedence. Both editions are collected: the Hogarth 1945 is the true first, the Viking 1949 the first American. The Viking…. A Hogarth Press second impression, also dated 1945, is documented by two independent dealers and is the commonest trap for this title, since the title-page year is unchanged; only the impression statement on the verso separates it. No documented UK book-club issue of the Hogarth first was found in the sources consulted.

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