Ripley Under Ground

Documented for this title: a Doubleday book-club copy bound in light tan boards with plain white endpapers and brown lettering to the spine — set against the trade first's beige cloth with red spine stamping — and issued without a jacket or with an unpriced one. General Doubleday club tells apply: the blind-stamped device at the lower rear board, no price at the jacket flap, lighter and thinner paper and boards, and a smaller trim. Because the club printing can carry the same "First Edition" statement, a copy offered as a first on the strength of that line alone should be refused until the rear board and jacket flap are checked.