The Story of Little Black Sambo

Stokes added the line 'The Only Authorized American Edition' to its 1923 edition to distinguish itself in a market crowded with piracies — that line is a 1923-or-later tell and is emphatically not a first-edition point, despite being read as one. Any copy with illustrations not after Bannerman is a later unauthorised edition. Modern facsimiles of the first American illustrated edition are in print and are catalogued as facsimiles, not firsts.