Monte Walsh

No book-club edition of Monte Walsh is documented in the sources consulted, and none should be asserted. The operative reprint tell is the copyright page: a 1963-dated Houghton Mifflin copy without the "First Edition, First Printing" statement is a later printing, not a first. Later reissues — the Corgi (London) 1966 paperback, a University of Nebraska Press edition, and a University of New Mexico Press edition carrying a Marc Simmons foreword — are reprints or "first thus," not firsts.