Martin Eden

No contemporaneous book-club issue is documented — the title predates the modern American book clubs (Book-of-the-Month Club began in 1926). The practical traps are later Macmillan printings and reprint-house editions: any copyright page carrying a printing statement beneath the 'Published September, 1909' line is a later printing, and Grosset & Dunlap and similar reprint editions retain the 1909 date on the title page while lacking the Macmillan copyright formula and the rear advertisements.