The Skin of Our Teeth

No book-club printing is documented for the 1942 Harper. Later-printing tells: any Harper copyright page listing a printing beyond the first, absence of the FIRST EDITION statement, or a code letter other than -R beneath a 1942-dated title page. The reprints that get mistaken for firsts are 'first thus': the Samuel French acting editions (1944/1945, reset and repaginated at c. 146 pp.) and the Harper 'Three Plays' (1957), which reprints the play with a new preface by Wilder — the preface is new to that volume, which is exactly what makes it first thus and not first.