The Day of the Locust

DOCUMENTED TRAP. Book-club copies of The Day of the Locust are found in an illustrated book-club dust jacket with NO price present at the flap. Because club copies can be jacketed over, or confused with, trade sheets, the jacket alone is not decisive in either direction: a first-printing book is frequently offered in a club jacket, and dealers list such copies openly. Verify the 'First Printing' statement on the copyright page for the book, and separately verify that the price is present at the flap for the jacket — an unpriced illustrated jacket indicates the club jacket regardless of the book it wraps.