Black Spring

No book-club issue is documented for the Paris first. The reprint tell is the Grove Press 1963 first American edition: half black boards over striated grey boards, gilt spine lettering with the author's signature in gilt, 243 pages — a hardcover, where the true first is a wrappered book. Black Spring was never issued in publisher's cloth in Paris, so a cloth-bound copy is either the Grove edition or a later private binding of the Paris sheets; a rebound Paris copy remains a first but has lost its identifying wrappers.