The Knave of Hearts (text by Louise Saunders)

Precedence: the 1925 Charles Scribner's Sons black-cloth royal quarto is the true first edition, first printing. Unusually for a golden-age gift-book illustrator, Scribner did NOT issue a separate signed/numbered deluxe or large-paper limited state -- the prized first is simply the ordinary 1925 trade edition, made scarce by its fragile mounted cover label, glassine, and box rather than by a limitation. There is no UK-first complication: this is a US-originated title with Scribner as sole first publisher. Louise Saunders (wife of Scribner editor Maxwell Perkins, and Parrish's Cornish, NH neighbor) is the text author; the book is collected for Parrish as illustrator.