The Snowman

No book-club issue is documented in the sources consulted. Because the Hamish Hamilton first was issued without a jacket, the usual jacket tests do not apply — identify from the copyright page alone. The title has been reprinted continuously since 1978 in the same pictorial boards, so later Hamish Hamilton impressions are near-identical externally and the added impression statement is the only reliable tell. Puffin paperbacks, printings tied to the 1982 animated adaptation, and later Random House/Penguin reissues are 'first thus' only.