The Hour of the Oxrun Dead

Doubleday's own book clubs (Literary Guild, Doubleday Book Club, Mystery Guild, Science Fiction Book Club) make this a high-risk title. The documented tells: no price on the jacket flap; a five-digit code, usually black numerals in a white block, on the jacket; smaller trim, thinner paper, cheaper binding, and a smaller typeface than the trade issue; and a small blind stamp — an impressed square, circle, or dot — on the lower rear board. Critically, a Doubleday club copy can still carry a "First Edition" statement on the copyright page: the statement alone does not clear a copy, and a club copy remains a club copy regardless of what the copyright page says. Club jackets are also sometimes married onto trade copies to replace lost jackets, so check book and jacket independently.