The Beach

No book-club issue of the UK first printing is documented, and the club tells are not the risk on this title. The documented traps are format and impression: later UK hardback issues, the many 1996–97 Viking/Penguin reprints in identical wrappers (separable only by the copyright page), and the 2000 film tie-in reissues are all later. The Riverhead US hardback, though a genuine first American edition, is not the true first.