Raintree County

Book-of-the-Month Club copies are the dominant trap on this title and were made concurrently from the Houghton Mifflin setting. The tells are: a blindstamped dot (or small blind device) at the lower rear board, which the trade issue does not have; and a jacket that mentions the Book-of-the-Month Club selection and/or lacks the price at the front flap. The club printing does not carry 1948 on the title page. Because the BOMC objected to the text before publication and three words were cut after roughly 5,000 copies had been printed, the page-152 reading also varies across early copies — treat it as corroboration of an early state, not as proof of the trade first.