The Languages of Pao

No book-club printing of the Avalon edition is documented in the sources consulted. Avalon's market was libraries, so ex-library copies are the routine trap rather than club copies. Rule out the Mayflower/Granada paperback (1974), the Underwood/Miller 1979 limited (a "first thus" carrying the restored text), and later paperback and small-press reissues. Any cloth copy lacking the Avalon Books / Thomas Bouregy imprint, the 1958 date and the Ric Binkley jacket is not the first.