Audrey Rose

Book-club copies dated 1975 under the Putnam imprint are common and are the principal trap; dealers routinely list 'First Book Club Edition' copies (Bookshop Apocalypse, Postmarked from the Stars, and Etsy/eBay listings among them). Because the Putnam first carries no printing statement, the discriminators are physical: club jackets carry no price at the front flap, club copies carry the standard blind-stamped impression on the lower rear board and are lighter and slightly smaller in trim, and the club binding is described in a red leatherette-textured board rather than the trade issue's purple cloth spine over orange paper boards. Note the blind-embossed tombstone angel is a feature of the TRADE binding — it is not a club tell, despite some listings conflating the two.