The Prophet

The Prophet has never been out of print, and the overwhelming majority of copies met in donation streams are later Knopf printings that still show 1923 on the title page and carry the 1923 copyright — the added printing line on the copyright verso is what gives them away (documented examples: a 35th printing of August 1936; a 1951 pocket edition at the 24th printing). Other documented look-alikes: the Knopf edition de luxe of 1926; the wartime Armed Services Edition (Council on Books in Wartime), a red-covered paperback that reproduces the 1923 copyright page and the original jacket art on its front cover and is regularly listed as a 1923 book; and the many small-format gift and pocket editions. A dated 1923 title page proves nothing on its own — read the copyright page.