The Real Life of Sebastian Knight

No book-club issue is documented for the 1941 first. The reprint traps are later editions rather than clubs: the 1959 New American edition (Juliar A21.3, twelve issues), the 1960 Weidenfeld & Nicolson British edition (A21.4), Penguin wrappers from November 1964 (A21.5), and Vintage from 1992 (A21.6). Critically, the second binding of the original 1941 sheets (issue b, smooth red cloth) is NOT a reprint — it is the same first printing, bound later, and remains the first edition, though it ranks below issue a. Juliar, working from New Directions' own records, dates that second binding April 1945; note that some dealer descriptions instead say 1949, and Juliar's date should be preferred as the bibliographically documented one.