NMLP P-042459 · Book-club / reprint tell · minted 2026-07-19
What Dreams May Come
Richard Matheson · G. P. Putnam's Sons, New York · 1978
No book-club tells specific to this title were documented in the sources consulted. Because the Putnam first carries no statement, the jacket is the working discriminator: club copies of period Putnam titles characteristically carry no price at the front flap, often print 'Book Club Edition' at the base of that flap, and carry a blind-stamped impression on the lower rear board. The other reprint trap is the 1998 film — any jacket carrying tie-in or 'now a major motion picture' wording is 1998 or later. Gauntlet Press subsequently issued signed limited editions; those are plainly marked later printings, not firsts.
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New Mexico Literacy Project — Book-club / reprint tell NMLP P-042459 for "What Dreams May Come" by Richard Matheson (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-042459, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).