Pippi Longstocking (Pippi Långstrump)

A 1950 Viking book-club edition exists and is the principal trap in English: its dust jacket is near-identical to the Viking trade first, so the jacket design alone will not separate them. Book-club tells for the period are a blind stamp (circle, square, dot, star or similar) on the lower rear board, thinner paper and smaller boards, an unpriced jacket flap where the trade jacket has the price present at the flap, and a "Book Club Edition" notice on the jacket flap. A ZIP code on the copyright page dates a copy after 1963 and rules out the 1950 printing outright. Viking's convention from 1937 was a "Published by The Viking Press in [year]" statement on the copyright page of firsts, but the exact wording on the 1950 Pippi was not verified against a confirmed copy and should not be quoted as a point without checking.