The Black Stallion

Later Random House printings are self-identifying because they state the printing number on the copyright page. Book-club and reprint issues carry a different imprint rather than Random House's printing statement — a Junior Deluxe Editions club issue reproducing the 1941 copyright and the Keith Ward artwork is recorded, and it is a reprint, not the first. One dealer notes a later-issue jacket that carries the original flap price but lists series titles on the rear panel that do not match jackets on confirmed first printings, so the rear-panel title list is a useful secondary check.