Horse Under Water

Later Cape impressions have plain black endpapers and are stated on the copyright page. Many sellers omit the endpaper point entirely and a number of copies are offered as true firsts on the strength of the Cape imprint and 1963 date alone; some go further and assert the plain black endpaper copy is the true first. Treat any description that does not address the endpapers as unverified. The Putnam 1968 is the first American, not the first. The later Penguin paperback prints a longer text with material added beyond the Cape first — a text-state trap, and a first thus at most.