3 Harvey Fergusson first editions are documented on this shelf, from Wolf Song (1927) to The Conquest of Don Pedro (1954) across 3 different publishers. Each linked guide gives the points of issue that separate a true first printing of that Harvey Fergusson 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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- Wolf Song — 1927 · Alfred A. Knopf / Borzoi BooksTwo issues appeared under the 1927 Knopf first edition. The signed limited issue carries a limitation leaf stating that of the first edition of Wolf Song 100 copies have been printed on Borzoi all-rag paper and signed by the author; it is numbered, bound in two-tone quarter cloth over marbled boards, issued in a slipcase, and collates [10] + 206 pages. The first trade issue is bound in purple cloth with titling…. US Knopf 1927 is the true first; the Knopf imprint of the period reads "New York and London" (Borzoi Books), so there is no separate earlier UK edition to weigh. Both issues of the first edition are collected and should be named together: the signed limited issue of 100 copies on Borzoi all-rag paper, and the first trade issue -- the trade being sought because its pictorial jacket is very uncommon. "First thus"…. No book-club issue of the 1927 Knopf first is documented in the sources consulted. The reprint to know is Grosset & Dunlap, which carries the G&D imprint on the spine and title page and lacks the Knopf/Borzoi devices; the 1936 Followers of the Sun omnibus is the other common substitution for the first.
- Followers of the Sun — 1936 · KnopfFirst edition thus, Alfred A. Knopf (New York), 1936, issued with the subtitle 'A Trilogy of the Santa Fe Trail.' This collected volume gathers Fergusson's three New Mexico Hispano-history novels: 'The Blood of the Conquerors' (1921), 'Wolf Song' (1927) and 'In Those Days' (1929). Genuine Knopf production is authenticated by the Borzoi device and the 'A Note on the Type' colophon leaf; the copyright page carries…. This 1936 Knopf collected edition is the first appearance of the three novels together under the 'Followers of the Sun' title; each constituent novel had its own earlier separate first edition (Blood of the Conquerors 1921, Wolf Song 1927, In Those Days 1929), so this volume is the first edition of the trilogy as a unit rather than of the individual texts. Book-club editions and later printings reprint the text but are not the 1936 Knopf first collected edition and are far less collectible. The Borzoi colophon and the 'A Note on the Type' page authenticate genuine Knopf production rather than a book-club reprint. Use the points above to be certain — see book-club edition vs. first edition.
- The Conquest of Don Pedro — 1954 · William MorrowWilliam Morrow, New York, 1954 confirmed by Library of Congress card number 54007104 (the "54-" prefix fixes the registration year) and OCLC 1120038. No book-specific points are documented for this title; identification rests on Morrow's house practice, which two independent publisher guides (ILAB and Quill & Brush/QBB) state in identical terms: prior to 1973 Morrow only sometimes printed "First Printing (Month,…. US-only first; no separately published UK edition was located, and no original-language predecessor applies. CORRECTION TO A COMMON ERROR: Wikipedia's Fergusson bibliography dates this title 1955, which is wrong for the first edition — 1955 is the Pocket Books paperback. The Morrow imprint plus the "54-" LCCN prefix confirm 1954 for the true first. This was Fergusson's last novel. No book-club edition documented. Two reprint traps: the Pocket Books (New York) 1955 paperback, which the ABAA dealer Bolerium describes as a "first wraps printing" — first thus in wrappers, not the first edition; and the University of New Mexico Press 1974 reprint issued as "A Zia Book" (LCCN 74084231; ISBN 0826303595). Any ISBN, any "Zia Book" series line, or paperback wrappers indicate a reprint rather than….
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