"Master Harold"...and the boys

A Knopf-dated 1982 book club edition circulates and is documented by Rare Book Cellar and by an Open Library record explicitly designating "Book Club edition" (catalogued at 61 pp. plus 4 pp. of plates against the trade first's 60 pp.). Dealers distinguish trade copies by the price present at the jacket flap and by the stated first-edition line — one listing explicitly warrants its copy as "NOT a BOMC edition." Caution documented in Knopf's own identification guidance: Knopf frequently blind-stamps its Borzoi logo on the rear board of trade copies, and this must not be mistaken for a book-club deboss.