The Hunger

Book-club copies of the 1981 Morrow issue circulate and are frequently mis-sold as firsts. The documented tells are a jacket with no price at the front flap, a small blind stamp (impressed square, circle, or dot) on the lower rear board, and a smaller trim size with thinner paper and cheaper binding than the trade issue. A separate club-issue ISBN (0-7394-1997-8) also appears in the record for this title. A club copy remains a club copy even where a first-edition statement is present.