Lord of Light

Doubleday issued this title through its book clubs, and a club body is distinguished not by the copyright-page wording (clubs often reproduce the trade page) but by physical tells: a blind-stamped dot or square impressed into the lower rear board, a gutter code stamped at the foot of one of the last text pages, and thinner, cheaper paper and boards; club jackets are unpriced. Use the stated 'First Edition' line together with the absence of any rear-board blindstamp to confirm the trade first over a club edition or later printing.