Hell's Angels: A Strange and Terrible Saga

The book-club issue is documented as carrying a RED topstain where the first printing has black, with "Book Club" printed on the jacket flap in place of the price and the 1/67 date code. The black topstain on the first printing is corroborated by two independent dealers; the red-topstain club tell rests on one specialist dealer, so confirm via the jacket flap and copyright page rather than the stain alone. Separately, a Thompson bibliography documents seven printings of the first edition, with the 3rd, 4th and 7th adding a brief statement by Thompson on the title page about the origin of the work — a title-page note of that kind is a reprint tell and never appears on a first printing.