Lud-in-the-Mist

No book-club edition is documented for the 1926 Collins issue. The dominant tell is binding-state rather than reprint: Collins re-cased the same sheets into the A1a, A1b and A1c bindings, so cloth colour and the presence of the printed leather spine label — not the title page, which is identical across them — decide the first binding. Later Knopf and mid-century paperback reissues carry their own imprints and dates.