West with the Night

US true first: Houghton Mifflin, Boston, 1942. The UK edition followed from George G. Harrap & Co. (London), dated 1943 in dealer records; it is a first English edition, not the true first, and is the lesser of the two collecting targets. The 1983 North Point Press reissue that revived the book is not a first edition of the work at all: it is a "first thus" (new introduction and format, 294 pp.) and is by a wide margin the most common misidentification, since it is the printing almost everyone owns. Any copy with an undated title page is a later printing regardless of what the copyright page says.