The Sword in the Stone

Book-club issues struck from the Putnam 1939 sheets are common and are routinely catalogued by dealers as "1939 Putnam, Book Club Edition." The practical tell is the jacket: club copies appear in a jacket without price at the flap, and some carry no blind stamp on the rear board, so absence of a blind stamp alone does not clear a copy. Collins reprinted the 1938 text repeatedly in Britain; only the copyright-page impression statement separates those reprints from the first.