The Reader (Der Vorleser)

The dominant trap is not a book club but a paperback: the ubiquitous Diogenes Taschenbuch, ISBN 3-257-22953-4, is a 1997 reprint whose own colophon states 'Die Erstausgabe erschien 1995 im Diogenes Verlag' — it is not the first edition, and copies of it are frequently offered as though the 1995 copyright line made them one. In the US, the February 1999 Oprah's Book Club selection generated later Pantheon printings and jackets bearing the Oprah's Book Club logo; a logo on the jacket front rules out a 1997 first printing outright, and book-club hardcovers of the Pantheon edition circulate alongside them. Vintage International paperbacks (1999 onward) are reprints.