Treasure Island (text by Robert Louis Stevenson; the inaugural Scribner's Illustrated Classic)

Later Scribner's printings are common and frequently confused with the first: from 1912 onward reprints add later-printing notices and eventually reduce plate counts (the 1933 reset carried only 12 plates), and the pictorial cover label and gilt top edge are often absent or worn. The single most reliable tell is the Contents reading: a corrected "123" for Chapter XVI marks a second printing or later, never the true first. Twentieth-century Scribner's Illustrated Classics reissues, Grosset & Dunlap and other trade reprints, and modern reprints (Franklin Library 1975, Folio Society editions, the Scribner's numbered deluxe revivals from 1981, and Suntup Editions limiteds) are all explicitly later and are routinely mislisted as "first edition" by non-specialist sellers.