The Strain

No US book-club issue is documented. The decisive reprint tell is the jacket: a later-issue jacket has a solid (uncut) front panel where the first issue is die-cut, so a copy in an uncut jacket is not in first-issue state regardless of the copyright page. Additional reprint tells are loss of the "First edition" statement and a number line no longer running to 1. Absence of the "0609" flap date code is a further caution.