The Chocolate War

No book-club issue of the Pantheon hardcover was documented in the sources consulted. The recurring traps are format traps rather than club traps: the publisher's library binding (Random House used a 0-394-9xxxxx ISBN for library issues against the 0-394-82805-4 trade ISBN), the 1986 Laurel-Leaf and 2004 Ember paperbacks, and later Knopf/Random House hardcover reissues that retain the 1974 copyright and are routinely mis-listed by dealers as first editions. A jacket without a price at the flap is normally a clipped trade jacket here, not a club tell.