The Knave of Hearts (text by Louise Saunders)

Chief trap: the spiral / wire-comb-bound softcover version in color pictorial wrappers (issued by the Artists and Writers Guild, the predecessor to Little Golden Books) is a LATER reprint, NOT the 1925 Scribner first. It carries only the "Copyright 1925 by Charles Scribner's Sons" line, so it is routinely misdated 1925, but it was actually issued roughly a decade later (mid-1930s); sources disagree on the imprint location (Racine, WI is commonly cited, but at least one source places it in Poughkeepsie, NY), so treat the location as uncertain. Genuine firsts are the oversized black-cloth hardcover with the full-size mounted color cover label and pictorial endpapers; later reprints (including the softcover and modern facsimile-style printings) typically show reduced plate quality and lack the mounted label, glassine, and box. No book-club issue of note. Because there is no limited edition, any copy described as a "signed limited" is either an owner-signed trade copy or misdescribed.