The Female Man

Gregg Press (1977) is a hardcover reprint of the Bantam text and is the standard trap for this title, since collectors assume a hardcover must lead — it does not, and it should never be catalogued as the first edition. Later Bantam printings are stated as such in the copyright-page printing history and carry different numbers and ISBNs from Q8765 / 0-553-08765-7. Bantam's numbering is a complicating factor for this exact year: the firm exhausted its available numbers in early 1975 and began reusing numbers from the 2000s range, moved to a five-digit system in 1976, and redesignated overlap-period books with a preceding zero — so verify against Q8765 and the February 1975 statement together rather than against the number alone.