NMLP P-042920 · Point of issue · minted 2026-07-19
Sons
Pearl S. Buck · The John Day Company · 1932
The trade first printing is stated, and the wording is unusual and specific: the copyright page reads "First Trade Edition, September, 1932." It says "trade" because a signed limited issue was also published in 1932 (dealer-recorded copies are numbered on a limitation page out of 371 and signed by Buck), so the trade sheets are designated first trade edition rather than first edition
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New Mexico Literacy Project — Point of issue NMLP P-042920 for "Sons" by Pearl S. Buck (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-042920, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).