Sons

No book-club issue of the 1932 John Day printing is documented in the sources consulted. The operative tell is the printing statement: because a second printing appeared in September 1932 as well, a copy lacking the "First Trade Edition, September, 1932" line is not the first trade issue regardless of the 1932 date on the title page. A separate signed-copy trap: the John Day "Selected Works" set (eleven volumes, limited to 1,000, each signed on a limitation page, issued for Buck's eightieth birthday in 1972) is a late signed reprint and is sometimes mistaken for an early signed first.