The Fairy Caravan

The 1952 Frederick Warne UK edition and every later Warne printing are reprints / "first thus" — the 1952 date is the commonest trap because it is the first edition most British readers ever saw. No book-club issue is documented in the sources consulted. The specific made-up-copy risk sits on the Ambleside issue: it is McKay sheets with a locally printed first gathering, so a made-up copy is easy to assemble — verify the Abbey Mills / Greenfield watermark on pp. 1–18, the Beatrix Heelis title page, the absence of the American preface, and the added dog-sketch leaf.