The Black Prince

No book-club edition of the 1973 Chatto issue was documented in this pass. The reprint tells that matter are format tells: the Penguin paperback (1975 and later) and the Vintage / Chatto later settings are reprints, and any copy carrying a later ISBN or a post-1973 date is not the first. Because the Viking (New York) sheets are a separate American setting, a Viking copy is never the true first however it is described. Later Chatto impressions are distinguished only by the impression statement on the title-leaf verso, since cloth and jacket art were carried over unchanged.