3 Anna Katharine Green first editions are documented on this shelf, from The Leavenworth Case (1878) to That Affair Next Door (1897). Each linked guide gives the points of issue that separate a true first printing of that Anna Katharine Green title from later printings and book-club copies — the publisher and year to expect, the number-line or edition-statement conventions, and the tells that show up in online listings.
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- The Leavenworth Case — 1878 · G. P. Putnam's SonsNew York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1878, under the full title The Leavenworth Case: A Lawyer's Story; octavo in publisher's cloth with gilt spine lettering — Christie's records terra-cotta cloth stamped in black on the front cover, while dealers also record dark green cloth, and no binding priority is established. The folding facsimile-letter insert must be present, and first printings show a title page dated 1878…. US Putnam 1878 is the sole true first — the first bestselling American detective novel; there is no earlier or simultaneous UK edition (British printings came later). No UK-precedence question arises. Later Putnam printings carry added printing notices, and the title was reprinted continually for decades — later title-page dates and non-Putnam imprints (including 20th-century reissues) are reprints.
- Hand and Ring — 1883 · G. P. Putnam's SonsPublished by G. P. Putnam's Sons, New York, in 1883, bound in green cloth stamped in black. It is the third of Green's novels to feature detective Ebenezer Gryce, following The Leavenworth Case (1878) and A Strange Disappearance (1880), and it is the book in which she introduces his recurring subordinates Caleb Sweetwater and Horace Byrd, both of whom return in later novels in the series. Green herself later…. Later Putnam reprintings and cheap reprint-house issues (such as A. L. Burt) use different cloth colors and lack the black-stamped decoration of the 1883 first printing.
- That Affair Next Door — 1897 · G. P. Putnam's SonsPublished by G. P. Putnam's Sons in New York in 1897 and printed by the Knickerbocker Press, whose imprint appears on the copyright page. The first edition is bound in blue cloth stamped in gilt, with gilt rules and decoration on the spine. The copyright page reads 'Copyright, 1897, by Anna Katharine Rohlfs' -- Green's married name -- and also carries the notice 'Entered at Stationers' Hall, London,' recording…. Early twentieth-century reprint-house editions (Grosset & Dunlap and similar cheap lines) use plain cloth without the gilt spine rules and typically drop the Knickerbocker Press imprint from the copyright page.
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