hardcover The far less valuable Viking book club edition may be distinguished from the first edition in three ways: The dust jacket has "Book Club Edition" printed on the inside front flap, and the price is absent (first editions may be price clipped if they were given as gifts). Book club editions are sometimes thinner and always taller (usually a quarter of an inch) than first editions. Book club editions are bound in cardboard, and first editions are bound in cloth (or have at least a cloth spine). 1952, London: Collins Crime Club, April 7, 1952, hardcover 1954, New York: Bantam #1252, August 1954, paperback London: Collins (White Circle), #295c, not dated, paperback 1964, New York: The Viking Press, Royal Flush: The Fourth Nero Wolfe Omnibus (with Fer-de-Lance and Three Witnesses), July 23, 1965, hardcover 1967, London: Fontana #1534, 1967, paperback 1974, London: Penguin Books, , 1974, paperback 1995, New York: Bantam , September 1, 1995, paperback 2006, Auburn, California: The Audio Partners Publishing Corp., Mystery Masters June 28, 2006 [1995], CD (unabridged, read by Michael Prichard) 2010, New York: Bantam , May 12, 2010, e-book References External links 1951 American novels Nero Wolfe novels by Rex Stout Viking Press books Novels set in New York City