The true first edition carries "First Edition" and H-H (August 1933) on copyright page. The book is black cloth with gold letters. The first printing jacket carries a quote from Anne Parrish across the top and a price of $2.00. The Anne Parrish quote say "What a beautiful book - Beautiful and deeply moving". Later printing dust jackets reference the Pulitzer Prize across the top and carry a price of $2.50. First printings are extremely scarce and rarely offered for sale.
Lamb in his Bosom book won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.
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 | Picture of the 1933 first edition dust jacket for Lamb in his Bosom. |  | |  | |  | |  | |  | |  | This photo contrasts the first edition dust jacket with that from a sixteenth printing from July 1934. Notice the sixteenth printing is taller, and has a "Pulitzer Prize Edition" sticker attached to the front. |  | On the left is the true first edition, and on the right is a sixteenth printing. The sixteenth printing is taller and has red boards rather than black.
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