A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

The Blakiston Company (Philadelphia) issued the reprint/book-club edition "by special arrangement with Harper & Brothers" — the Blakiston imprint on the title page is an immediate disqualifier. Blakiston copies are bound in textured green covers with gilt spine lettering, rather than the Harper first's green cloth with a printed paper spine label, and the jacket states "Book Club Edition" at the foot of the front flap. Bauman catalogues a first-edition copy housed alongside a separate book-club jacket, confirming the two jackets are distinct objects.