![]() ![]() ![]() The Yearling book won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. Then as the publisher received positive media reviews, it put those reviews on the back of the second issue jacket and removed the book club statement. In this case the publisher used the book club statement as a badge of honor in leu of media reviews. Although collectors don't generally want book club editions, publishers love book club editions because it means that novel is good enough to get picked up by the club and thus it will enjoy a higher readership. ![]() Rather it is nothing more than a tout by the publisher to advertise in effect that the Book-of-the-Month Club planned to make a book club edition at the time the first edition was published. Note: the Book-of-the-Month statement does NOT mean that the book or jacket is a book club edition. There are no media reviews on the back panel. The first issue dust jacket has a four paragraph publisher's description of the story on the back panel and a tout on the bottom stating that the book is a Book-of-the-Month Club Selection. The first printing has the letter "A" and Scribner's seal on the copyright page. ![]()
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