Where Are the Children?

A US book-club edition of the 1975 Simon and Schuster issue exists, circulates widely, and is frequently misdescribed by sellers as a first — some listings even read "Book Club Edition; the printed pricet Printing," which is not a first printing of the trade book. Club copies are identified in the usual way: no price at the jacket flap (the club jacket carries no printed price at all), a blind-stamped square or dot on the lower rear board, and a smaller, lighter book than the trade issue. Decisively, a club copy will not carry the full descending number line on the copyright page.