The Borrowers

Harcourt, Brace did not state first printings in this era (their practice from 1921 to about 1960), so the American edition must be worked from the code line: later Harcourt printings carry a letter-and-date code beneath the copyright notice — a copy showing 'J.2.60', for example, is a 1960 printing and not the 1953 first — and that code line is the check to make. On the Dent side, later impressions are stated on the copyright page beneath the 'First published 1952' line; a Dent copy dated 1952 with a stated second impression is not a first. No named book-club issue of either edition is documented in the sources consulted.