Tales of Soldiers and Civilians

No contemporary book-club issue is documented. The principal trap is the New York, United States Book Company issue, printed from the first-edition plates and carrying the same E. L. G. Steele 1891 copyright on the copyright page — it is the second American edition and is regularly offered online as a 'first edition, first printing.' Check the foot of the title page: only 'E. L. G. Steele, San Francisco' is the first. Secondary traps are the 1898 Putnam revised edition and the Neale Collected Works redistribution of the stories; modern scholarly and trade reissues are 'first thus.'