Hors d'Oeuvre and Canapés (With a Key to the Cocktail Party)

The US M. Barrows 1940 edition is the true first. Beard revised the book in 1963, and it was reissued in 1985; those are later first-thus editions, not the first. First-printing identification rests on the 1940 Barrows imprint and the absence of revision or later-printing notes. Note that some 1940 copies carry a printing statement such as a sixth printing, so verify the absence of any later-printing line.