Preface to a Twenty Volume Suicide Note

No book-club edition documented — this is a wrappered small-press chapbook. The title went through many printings under the same imprint and in the same format, with a fifth printing recorded in 1969 and a sixth in 1970, and these later printings are the standing trap: they carry the same 1961 copyright and the same Basil King cover, and are separated from the first chiefly by the bold-capitals last-page advertisement setting and the rear-wrapper price. A later Corinth Books issue also circulates under ISBN 0870910485. Because no first-edition statement exists, any copy offered as a first on the basis of the copyright page alone is unverified.