The Man Who Killed the Deer signed first

Book-club editions and later printings (including the reset editions of 1965 and 1971, some with a Lawrence Clark Powell introduction and Don Perceval illustrations not present in the 1942 first) reprint the text but are not the first edition. Because there is no number line, the copyright-page wording is the sole textual identifier — read it carefully, confirming the Rinehart colophon and the absence of any later-printing statement.