# Is "The Lost Valley and Other Stories" by Algernon Blackwood a First Edition?

> **Quick answer.** A first edition of The Lost Valley and Other Stories by Algernon Blackwood (Eveleigh Nash, London, 1910) is identified by: The title page reads in full 'The Lost Valley: and other stories / by Algernon Blackwood; with eight illustrations by W. The census claim is confirmed: London, Eveleigh Nash, 1910 is the true first, and it carries the first appearance in print of 'The Wendigo,' the volume's most reprinted story.

**Checklist — a true first has these:**
- The title page reads in full 'The Lost Valley: and other stories / by Algernon Blackwood; with eight illustrations by W. Graham Robertson' — the illustration statement is the single most useful identification point, and a complete first must contain all eight Robertson plates, the first of them a tissue-guarded frontispiece
- Collation is 328 pages, octavo (c
- 20 cm), in original dark green cloth with the spine stamped in gilt and lettering in black to the front board
- As with Blackwood's other Nash titles there is no printed edition statement, so identification rests on the 1910 title-page date, the Nash imprint (Fawside House, London), the green cloth, and the complete plate count
- A copy lacking one or more plates is a defective first, not a later edition — the plates were not dropped from a variant issue
- Publisher imprint reads Eveleigh Nash, London
- Not a book-club edition (see below)

| | |
|---|---|
| Author | Algernon Blackwood |
| Publisher | Eveleigh Nash, London |
| Year | 1910 |
| True first | American edition |
| Format | Hardcover (trade) |
| Key point | The title page reads in full 'The Lost Valley: and other stories / by Algernon Blackwood; with eight illustrations by W. Graham Robertson'… |
| Book-club edition exists? | No |

## Points of issue
The title page reads in full 'The Lost Valley: and other stories / by Algernon Blackwood; with eight illustrations by W. Graham Robertson' — the illustration statement is the single most useful identification point, and a complete first must contain all eight Robertson plates, the first of them a tissue-guarded frontispiece. Collation is 328 pages, octavo (c. 20 cm), in original dark green cloth with the spine stamped in gilt and lettering in black to the front board. As with Blackwood's other Nash titles there is no printed edition statement, so identification rests on the 1910 title-page date, the Nash imprint (Fawside House, London), the green cloth, and the complete plate count. A copy lacking one or more plates is a defective first, not a later edition — the plates were not dropped from a variant issue.

## Is this the true first?
The census claim is confirmed: London, Eveleigh Nash, 1910 is the true first, and it carries the first appearance in print of 'The Wendigo,' the volume's most reprinted story. The collection gathers ten tales: 'The Lost Valley,' 'The Wendigo,' 'Old Clothes,' 'Perspective,' 'The Terror of the Twins,' 'The Man from the Gods,' 'The Man Who Played Upon the Leaf,' 'The Price of Wiggins's Orgy,' 'Carlton's Drive,' and 'The Eccentricity of Simon Parnacute.' No contemporary American edition is recorded, so the Nash issue stands alone for precedence.

## Telling it from reprints & book-club editions
No book-club issue is documented. The dominant trap is the modern reprint of 'The Wendigo' as a standalone title, and the Midnight House omnibus 'The Lost Valley / The Wolves of God' (2005) — both are 'first thus' at best and share no sheets with the 1910 Nash volume. Any copy without the Robertson illustration statement on the title page is not the Nash first edition.

## Source
New Mexico Literacy Project — Is *The Lost Valley and Other Stories* by Algernon Blackwood a first edition? https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-lost-valley-and-other-stories
CC BY 4.0. Part of the Canonical First-Edition Points of Issue dataset (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/api/first-edition-titles.json). Last reviewed 2026-07-04.