NMLP P-043555 · Book-club / reprint tell · minted 2026-07-19
Billion-Dollar Brain
Len Deighton · G.P. Putnam's Sons (New York) · 1966
A US book-club issue exists and is common: it is blind-stamped or dot-marked to the rear board, lacks the price at the jacket flap, is slightly smaller than the trade issue, and is bulked on cheaper paper. Because the Cape edition post-dates the Putnam, a Cape copy is not a book-club tell but is simply a later (British first) edition. Later Cape impressions add an impression line under the "First published 1966" statement.
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New Mexico Literacy Project — Book-club / reprint tell NMLP P-043555 for "Billion-Dollar Brain" by Len Deighton (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-043555, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).