Tropic of Capricorn

No book-club issue is documented. The reprint tells are the Grove Press New York hardcover (green cloth in jacket, c. 346-348 pp., catalogued as the "First Authorized U.S. Edition" — authorised, and therefore by definition not the first) and the Grove paperback that followed. Any copy bearing a Grove imprint, a New York place of publication, or an ISBN is not the Paris first. The Paris first was issued only in wrappers, never in publisher's cloth: a cloth-bound copy is either the Grove edition or a later private binding of the Paris sheets. A rebound Paris copy remains a first but has lost its principal identifying surface; the wrappers' spine is commonly damaged or wholly missing.