Of Mice and Men

True first: US Covici-Friede (NY, 1937) is the recognized true first edition; the UK Heinemann edition is also 1937 but later/secondary — CONFIRMED. First-issue point (CORRECTED): the point on p.9 is TEXTUAL, not "broken/cropped type." The first issue (first printing, first state) CONTAINS the nine-word phrase at the bottom of p.9 reading "...and only moved because the heavy hands were pendula." Roughly 2,500 copies were bound with this uncorrected reading; the page was then reset to delete those nine words, so the second issue/state ends the sentence at "...hung loosely." Thus the first state has the original (longer) uncorrected reading — it is not that it "lacks a correction" so much as it predates the deletion