Earth Abides

Earth Abides was issued by the Science Fiction Book Club, and club printings are the most common trap. Book-club copies lack the stated "First Printing" on the copyright page; the standard club tells apply — a blindstamped dot or square on the rear board, cheaper bulked paper and smaller trim, and a jacket without a price at the flap. The Easton Press "Collector's Edition" (1991, full leather, gilt, artwork by Toni L. Taylor, introduction by Arthur O. Lewis) is a modern "first thus" and is regularly miscatalogued as a first edition.