The Rainbow

No book-club issue is documented for the 1915 Methuen. The traps are the expurgated American line — Huebsch (New York, 1916 title-page date), Huebsch's subsequent and more expensive form, and Thomas Seltzer (New York, 1924), all of which carry the same cut text — routinely offered as 'first editions' of The Rainbow when they are neither the first nor the complete text. Confirm against the Methuen points: undated title page, 'First Published in 1915' on the verso, the Hazell, Watson and Viney imprint on p. (464), and the 'Autumn, 1915' Methuen's Popular Novels list on p. (465).