The Woman in the Window

The title was offered as a Book of the Month selection, and the club issue is the principal trap because it is printed from the trade plates and can reproduce the "First Edition" statement and the full number line. Club copies are distinguished by physical tells, not by the copyright page: no price at the jacket flap, thinner boards and noticeably lighter bulk than the trade issue, and in many cases a small blind stamp — a dot, circle, square, or triangle — impressed into the rear board at the lower corner near the spine, or "Book Club Edition" printed at the lower front flap. Per standard doctrine, any club tell overrides an edition statement or a complete number line.