2 Paul Horgan first editions are documented on this shelf, from Great River signed first (1954) to Lamy of Santa Fe: His Life and Times (1975) across 2 different publishers. Each linked guide gives the points of issue that separate a true first printing of that Paul Horgan 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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Great River signed first — 1954 · Rinehart & CompanyGreat River: The Rio Grande in North American History was published in two volumes by Rinehart & Company, Inc., New York, in 1954 (Volume One: Indians and Spain; Volume Two: Mexico and the United States), issued together in a publisher's slipcase. The first edition is bound in black cloth boards with gilt spine lettering and blue endpapers, and carries the Rinehart colophon (the circled R device) on the title and…. The US Rinehart & Company two-volume set (1954) is the true first edition. Note: the base record listed the publisher as Farrar Straus; the verified first-edition publisher is Rinehart & Company, Inc. Book-club editions and later printings reprint the text but are not the first edition and are far less collectible. Because there is no number line, the copyright-page wording is the sole textual identifier — read it carefully. A book-club set typically lacks the slipcase, may show a blind-stamped dot on the rear board, and carries a book-club notation on the copyright page. Use the points above to be certain —….
Lamy of Santa Fe: His Life and Times — 1975 · Farrar, Straus and GirouxFarrar, Straus and Giroux's practice from 1965 onward is to state "First edition", "First printing" or "First published" with the year on the copyright page; for this book dealers describing firsts quote it as "First printing so stated", and a second printing of the 1975 hardcover exists that retains the 1975 date but drops the statement. The trade issue collates xvi + 524 pages (final leaf blank; commonly cited…. US-only true first: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York, 1975 (Pulitzer Prize for History, 1976); no contemporaneous UK edition traced in the sources consulted. The census note misses a real precedence point that is corrected here: the 1975 first edition was issued in two forms, which is why dealers catalogue the black-cloth issue specifically as the "first trade edition". A signed, numbered large-paper limited…. No book-club printing is documented in the sources consulted. The routine confusions for this title are the later FSG/Noonday trade paperback and the second printing of the 1975 hardcover -- one dealer listing explicitly offers a "2nd printing", which keeps the 1975 date on the title page but lacks the first-printing statement. The copyright page must be read; the title-page date will not settle it.

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