Ottawa: W.L. Massiah, 1939.

First edition as a separate imprint; octavo, single signature saddle stitch binding, incorporating the original flock-textured limp paper purple wrappers lettered in gilt on front cover, and printed with a crackled texture within; inscribed by Massiah on title, "To Henry J. Taylor, 1st September 1942, Gratefully, W.L. Massiah," in blue ink; covers slightly faded, bumped & chipped; 9 x 6 1/4 in.

"Turn About" was first published in the March 5, 1932 issue of The Saturday Evening Post and was subsequently published, with some variation, in the annual collection of O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1932 and in Doctor Martino (1934). This separate publication "came into existence as a result of the Second World War. Hitler ordered the invasion of Poland on September 1, 1939; England and France entered the war on September 3. On September 10 the Dominion of Canada was at war with the German Reich. Poland fell before the end of the month and the western front settled into the stagnation of the Phony War. In this unhappy period Canadian businessman W.L. Massiah, inspired by the qualities of courage portrayed by Faulkner's characters, published Turn About in pamphlet form as a holiday greeting. There is some uncertainty concerning the publication arrangements. In 1939 Random House was Faulkner's publisher; Massiah instead thanks Smith and Haas for permission to reprint 'through their agents MacMillan and Co., of Canada Limited.' The text he prints is not the Doctor Martino version published by Smith and Haas but the 'mustache' text of The Saturday Evening Post. It thus seems likely the printer used Post tear sheets for his setting copy" (Carl Petersen, On the Track of the Dixie Limited: Further Notes of a Faulkner Collector, La Grange, IL, 1979, p.29

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