Notes of a Native Son

No book-club edition of the 1955 Beacon issue is documented in the sources consulted. The reprint hazards are Beacon's own later impressions, which note the printing on the copyright page, and — from about 1980 onward — copies carrying a number line. The long-running Beacon paperback reissues, which have kept the title continuously in print, are the most common substitute and are not the 1955 cloth first.