Desperate Remedies

The title predates the book-club era entirely and no book-club issue exists. The reprint tell that matters most is structural: per Purdy the novel was never reprinted in its original three-volume form, so any three-decker other than Tinsley 1871 is not this book. The specific trap is that unsold sheets of the first edition were converted into a single-volume remainder issue — that remainder is the item most often mistaken for, or misdescribed as, the first. Later one-volume issues are common and are distinguished at once by the presence of Hardy's name on the title page and a later date.