The Elements of Style

No book-club issue is documented for the 1918 or 1919 private printings or for the 1920 trade edition. The hazard is the reprint field rather than a club: the 1959 Macmillan Strunk & White and its many later Macmillan / Allyn & Bacon / Longman printings, plus modern facsimile and public-domain reprints of the 1918 and 1920 text (usually marketed as "The Original Edition"), are abundant and are routinely offered as firsts. A Thrift Press (Ithaca) printing exists whose title page styles the author "William Strunk, Jr., Professor of English, Emeritus"; that word dates it after his 1937 retirement and rules out an early private printing.