NMLP P-045658 · Book-club / reprint tell · minted 2026-07-19

Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage

Alfred Lansing · McGraw-Hill Book Company (New York) · 1959

IMPORTANT TRAP: the true first-state jacket itself reads 'Book-of-the-Month Club Selection,' so that wording is NOT a book-club tell. The actual Book-of-the-Month Club copy ALSO states 'First Edition' on the copyright page but is identified by a blind 'dimple'/depression on the rear board and lacks the jacket's '36352' publisher's code; the trade first carries the code and no BOMC blindstamp. Later second-state jackets show a higher flap price and replace the author photo with advertising blurbs; modern Basic Books / Carroll & Graf reprints are common and are not the first.

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New Mexico Literacy Project — Book-club / reprint tell NMLP P-045658 for "Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage" by Alfred Lansing (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-045658, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).