The Fountainhead

The defining trap for this title is not a book club but The Blakiston Company (Philadelphia) 1943 issue: a wartime sub-license printed from the Bobbs-Merrill plates because Blakiston held paper allocation Bobbs-Merrill lacked. It reproduces the original setting, carries the same text errors, and shows copyright to The Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1943 on the copyright page — but the Blakiston imprint appears on the title page. Found in burgundy cloth and also in green cloth. It is a reprint, not a first edition, and it is regularly offered as one. Standard book-club tells otherwise apply to later club issues: a blind stamp (small circle, square, dot or triangle) impressed into the rear board near the spine, no price printed at the jacket flap, thinner boards and jacket paper.