The Apple Tree: A Short Novel and Several Long Stories

No book-club issue is documented for the Gollancz 1952 first. The principal trap is 'first thus' retitling: the collection was later reissued as The Birds and Other Stories (Penguin, and subsequently Virago), which is a retitle of this same gathering and is not a first of anything. Later Gollancz impressions state the reprint on the reverse of the title page, so the absence of that statement is the test. The US Doubleday 1953 Kiss Me Again, Stranger is a different title and a different (expanded) gathering — not a book-club issue, and not to be confused with a reprint of the UK first.