NMLP P-017628 · Book-club / reprint tell · minted 2026-07-04

Ship of Fools

Katherine Anne Porter · Atlantic-Little, Brown · 1962

Because the book was a major bestseller, book-club copies are common: a 'Book Club Edition' notation on the jacket flap, no printed jacket price, and a blind-stamp or gutter dot on the rear board. The stated 'first edition' plus the price-intact first-issue jacket is the tell.

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New Mexico Literacy Project — Book-club / reprint tell NMLP P-017628 for "Ship of Fools" by Katherine Anne Porter (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-017628, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).