Lost Horizon

Lost Horizon's enormous reprint afterlife is the trap, and none of it is a first. Grosset & Dunlap issued a First Photoplay Edition (tied to Frank Capra's 1937 film), and in 1939 the novel became Pocket Book No. 1, the launch title of American mass-market paperback publishing — famous, but a reprint. Reader's Club and other reprint-house issues follow. Any copy bearing a Grosset & Dunlap or Pocket Books imprint, or a photoplay/film jacket, is a reprint regardless of the 1933 copyright date carried over onto its copyright page.