2 Sarah Orne Jewett first editions are documented on this shelf, from Deephaven (1877) to The Country of the Pointed Firs (1896) across 2 different publishers. Each linked guide gives the points of issue that separate a true first printing of that Sarah Orne Jewett 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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Deephaven — 1877 · James R. Osgood and CompanyJewett's first book, published March 1, 1877, in an edition of 1,280 copies. The key textual first-printing point is the word 'was' where later printings read 'so' in line 16 of page 65 (BAL 10904). Bound in green cloth decorated in black and gilt, all edges red; collation is 255 pages.
The Country of the Pointed Firs — 1896 · Houghton, Mifflin & Co.First edition, Houghton, Mifflin & Co., Boston and New York, 1896 (issued November 1896), 213 pages. Green cloth with gilt top, the binding designed by Sarah Wyman Whitman; title, author and ornament stamped in gilt on the upper board, and title, author and publisher in gilt on the spine. The 1896 text comprises the sketches as first collected; later editions interpolate additional Dunnet Landing stories ('The…. US true first, 1896, with the original non-interpolated text (213 pages). Posthumous and later editions add the three later Dunnet stories; those expanded texts are 'first thus' for the added material but not the true first of the book. Editions containing the interpolated later Dunnet Landing chapters (the expanded 24-chapter text appears from 1919, and the 1925 Houghton Mifflin edition carries Willa Cather's preface) postdate the 1896 first and lack the original Houghton Mifflin 1896 imprint and Sarah Wyman Whitman binding.

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