The Story of Babar (Histoire de Babar)

No book-club issue of the 1931 French first is documented. The traps are (a) later Jardin des Modes printings of the French text, betrayed by the elephant device and the list of sequels on the title-page verso; and (b) the many later reissues of the English text — any English-language Babar bearing a Random House imprint is not the 1933 Smith & Haas first, and any bearing a Methuen imprint is not the American first. Later Methuen and Random House issues are "first thus" at best.