New York: Grosset & Dunlap, (c 1932) dj. Hardcover - A story of life at a prep school, although the hero of this title - Russell Emerson - has to work his way through school. Illustrated with a glossy frontispiece and 3 inserted plates by Leslie Crump (all of the plates are present, but they are all inserted at different pages than indicated on the list of illustrations.) 270 pp plus 8 pp of publisher's ads.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2011. dj. Hardcover first edition - Award-winning author's first novel (preceded by a volume of short stories), set in 1968 at a disintegrating New England prep school which has just admitted - through a clerical error - its first female student - a fifteen year old African-American girl, 173 pp. ISBN: 978-0-307-594730.