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Welcome to TheBookGuide. AbeBooks Official Site - New & Secondhand Books, New &Used Textbooks, Rare & Out of Print Books. How To Identify Book Club Editions (Page 1 of 2) Estimates differ, but many hundreds of book clubs have come and gone over the past 70 or 80 years, with a total number perhaps approaching a thousand. Many flourish today. Undoubtedly, the best known of these is the Book-of-the-Month Club. Founded by advertising copywriter Harry Scherman in 1926, BOMC grew to a million members by the end of the 20th century. Another major player (whose sales numbers have in fact consistently and comfortably exceeded the BOMC's) was and remains Doubleday, which began operations in 1927 and grew a family tree of well over a dozen distinct clubs, among them Doubleday Book Club and the Literary Guild.
The BCE Myth Before we start, let's dispel a prevalent myth: book club editions have no value. First, some BCE's are in fact the first appearance (sometimes the only appearance) of a title in print - that is, the actual first edition, first printing, first you-name-it. Identifying Book-of-the-Month Club Editions Well, almost.