Titus Groan

The principal later-issue tell is the 1946 second impression: coarse-grained cloth in place of the first issue's fine linen grain, and a jacket front flap on which review extracts and a 'Second impression' statement replace the original blurb. First-thus traps: Weybright & Talley, New York 1967 (A4c, dark blue cloth 233 x 152mm) adds the series line 'The Gormenghast Trilogy: Volume One' and wears a Bob Pepper jacket forming one panel of a three-volume triptych; the Ballantine 1968 paperback continues that triptych. No book-club edition is documented for the 1946 first in the sources consulted.