The Wind

The tell is the byline rather than any club marking: printings from the end of January 1926 onward bear Scarborough's name, and the Harper year code advances (Z = 1925 gives way to A = 1926), so a named copy is by definition not the first. The 1928 Victor Seastrom silent film starring Lillian Gish drove further reprints. The modern University of Texas Press reissue in the Barker Texas History Center Series is a "first thus." No book-club edition is documented in the sources consulted.