The Seven Storey Mountain

The decisive first-printing point is the imprimatur error "Ex Parte Ordnis" (for "Ex Parte Ordinis") on the verso of the third leaf, with the Nihil obstat and Imprimi potest; later printings correct it to "Ex Parte Ordinis." The first-state dust jacket carries the photo caption "...The author is second from the left" and is priced at the front flap (price present at the flap), with the back flap noting the 1948 Catholic Press Association poetry award; the photographer credit "Daniel Frances Connell" is absent from the first and second printings