Millions of Cats

No book-club edition of the 1928 first is documented. The controlling reprint tell is the copyright page: a copy dated 1928 on the title page but lacking the "By the Jersey City Printing Co." line is a second issue of the first edition, not a first printing. This is the most-missed distinction on the title, precisely because the 1928 title-page date survives on later printings and reads as conclusive. Second-state jackets (Rockwell Kent endorsement, Anne Carroll Moore review, "Ga'g" spelling, revised Minnesota wording) are frequently married to first-printing books and offered as complete firsts — jacket and book must be checked as separate items. Later Coward-McCann printings and modern reissues retain the 1928 copyright date.