It Can't Happen Here

The Sun Dial Press (Garden City, New York) issued a cheap reprint — also dated 1935, which is precisely the trap, since the matching year invites a misread. Sun Dial was Doubleday's reprint imprint: the Sun Dial title page and the absence of the "First Edition" copyright-page statement are the tells, and a 1935 date on a Sun Dial copy signifies nothing. A stated "First Edition" on a Doubleday, Doran copyright page remains the single decisive check. No signed limited issue of this title was documented in the sources consulted; Bauman expressly catalogues its inscribed copy as a trade first edition, not a signed limited edition, so inscribed and signed copies are trade firsts with an autograph, not a separate issue.