The Bridges of Madison County

A Warner book-club issue circulates widely and is the principal trap, since club copies can carry the trade edition's copyright page. Club tells are physical: no price at the jacket flap, a blind stamp — a small dot, circle, square, or triangle — impressed into the rear board at the lower corner nearest the spine, thinner boards and lighter bulk than the trade issue, and sometimes "Book Club Edition" printed at the lower right of the front flap. Per standard doctrine, any of these overrides a "First Printing: April 1992" statement or a complete number line reproduced from the trade plates.