Lest Darkness Fall

Identification is by absence of a later-printing note: L. W. Currey's entry records "No statement of printing," and Quill & Brush states that for Henry Holt, "Prior to 1945, first editions can generally be identified by the lack of a later printing statement on the copyright page." The binding is a strong and well-corroborated point: original pictorial black cloth with the front and spine panels stamped in white enamel, top edge stained yellow, and the fore- and bottom edges untrimmed