No Orchids for Miss Blandish

No book-club issue of the 1939 Jarrolds first is documented. The dominant traps are "first thus" reprints of altered texts: the wartime Jarrolds play-based edition (Oct 1942, often undated), and the 1961 rewrite issued as London: Panther and New York: Avon, for which the publisher's own note states the text was rewritten and revised by the author because the original's outmoded dialogue and 1938 atmosphere would not suit a new generation. Later Corgi and Panther paperbacks reprint the revised text. Any copy whose text differs from the 1939 setting, or that carries a "thousand" statement, is not the first impression.