{ "$schema": "https://schema.org/Dataset", "name": "NMLP First-Edition Identification Registry", "version": "1.1.0", "datePublished": "2026-06-28", "license": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/", "creator": { "name": "Josh Eldred", "sameAs": "https://orcid.org/0009-0005-5147-4825" }, "publisher": "New Mexico Literacy Project", "count": 209, "categories": { "us-trade": "US Trade Publishers", "vintage-us": "Vintage US Publishers (pre-1980)", "uk-commonwealth": "UK & Commonwealth Publishers", "science-fiction-fantasy": "Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror", "mystery-crime": "Mystery, Crime & Thriller", "childrens-ya": "Children's & YA Publishers", "university-academic": "University & Academic Presses", "poetry-literary": "Poetry & Literary Presses", "fine-private-press": "Fine & Private Press", "regional-specialty": "Regional & Specialty Presses", "southwest-nm": "Southwest & New Mexico Presses" }, "data": [ { "slug": "ace-books", "name": "Ace Books", "category": "science-fiction-fantasy", "region": "US", "era": "1952–present", "idMethods": [ "Primary method (pre-1968): a first printing carries NO printing statement and NO later-printing line on the copyright page. Ace applied this inconsistently, so treat the absence of a printing notice as suggestive, not conclusive.", "Use the Ace serial/catalog number (letter-prefixed code, e.g. 'D-xxx', 'F-xxx', 'G-xxx', or post-1968 five-digit numeric like '12345') printed on cover/spine to date and place the edition. The LETTER prefix primarily encodes the cover PRICE and era (D=35c 1952-62, S=25c 1952-56, F=40c 1961-67, G=50c, M=45c, H=60c, A=75c, N=95c 1968), not strictly the printing order. Reprints were frequently reissued under a new/changed serial number at a higher price, so a higher price or changed prefix for the same title signals a later state.", "Caution on 'First Ace printing' / '1st Ace printing' wording: per Ace reference sources this phrase means the first time ACE published the title and IMPLIES a prior hardback or paperback edition exists elsewhere -- it is NOT evidence of a first edition of the work. Do not treat it as a true-first tell.", "Price increases on later printings of the same/related serial number are a reliable later-STATE indicator. There is no well-documented, consistent Ace convention of an explicit 'First Ace printing: ' statement followed by a standard number line with '1' present; do not rely on a number line as the primary Ace first-printing test." ], "notablePoints": [ "Founded 1952 by A. A. Wyn (Ace Magazine Company, New York); Donald A. Wollheim spearheaded the paperback list, added SF in 1953, and was the influential editor (~1952-1971) before founding DAW Books with Elsie Wollheim (named for his initials; first titles April 1972).", "Ace Doubles (1952-1973) bind two novels tete-beche (head-to-toe) with two front covers; first-printing identification keys on the serial number and price rather than a printing statement. The final D-series double appeared Aug 1973; post-1974 'Ace Doubles' were arranged conventionally.", "Ace Science Fiction Specials -- the acclaimed Terry Carr-edited first series (started 1967, into the early 1970s) -- are sought as paperback firsts (Le Guin, Lafferty, Russ). A second Specials series (1984) carried debut firsts such as Gibson's Neuromancer.", "Pre-1968 mass-market firsts rarely state anything on the copyright page, so the no-later-printing-line rule combined with the serial-number/price (and price-increase) tells is the main practical handle.", "Now an imprint of Penguin Random House, operating within the Berkley Publishing Group as its SF imprint (Berkley/Ace)." ], "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/publishers/ace-books" }, { "slug": "akashic-noir", "name": "Akashic Books (Noir Series)", "category": "mystery-crime", "region": "US", "era": "1996-present", "idMethods": [ "Modern copyright-page number line ending in '1' for the first printing; usually a 'First printing' / 'First edition' statement as well.", "Many Noir Series titles are trade-paperback originals — the paperback is the first edition; a few have hardcover library states with their own line.", "Series identification by the '[City] Noir' title and Akashic colophon." ], "notablePoints": [ "Founded 1996 (Johnny Temple); the Noir Series (Brooklyn Noir, etc.) are original anthologies — first BOOK appearance of the stories, so genuinely collectible firsts.", "Trade paperback original status means there is no earlier hardcover to chase.", "Some popular titles reprinted quickly — confirm the full number line ending in '1'." ], "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/publishers/akashic-noir" }, { "slug": "knopf", "name": "Alfred A. Knopf", "category": "us-trade", "region": "trade", "era": "", "idMethods": [ "Stated \"First Edition\" (1947–present)", "Borzoi running-wolfhound device", "“A Note on the Type” colophon at the rear" ], "notablePoints": [ "Borzoi colophon and “A Note on the Type” page authenticate genuine Knopf production rather than a book club reprint." ], "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/publishers/knopf" }, { "slug": "algonquin-books-chapel-hill", "name": "Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill", "category": "regional-specialty", "region": "US", "era": "1983–present", "idMethods": [ "Stated 'First Edition' or 'First Printing' on the copyright page on early printings", "Full descending number line ending in 1 (e.g., '10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1'); lowest digit present = printing number, so a true first shows the '1'", "Founded 1983 (Louis Rubin / Shannon Ravenel), Chapel Hill, NC; became a Workman imprint and is now part of Hachette Book Group via Workman — number-line conventions are standard modern American trade", "Cross-check the stated-edition line against the number line; both should agree for a true first printing" ], "notablePoints": [ "A confirmed dealer point of reference: Julia Alvarez 'Something to Declare' (1998) first printing carries a full number line", "Early-1980s titles (pre-Workman distribution maturity) can be scarce; rely on number line plus stated 'First Edition'", "Book-club editions are uncommon for Algonquin literary titles but watch for absent number line / 'Book Club Edition' on any reprint-house copies", "Workman/Algonquin did NOT have an idiosyncratic house code; treat as conventional stated-first + number-line" ], "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/publishers/algonquin-books-chapel-hill" }, { "slug": "alice-james-books", "name": "Alice James Books", "category": "poetry-literary", "region": "US", "era": "1973–present", "idMethods": [ "Modern convention: 'First Edition' on the copyright page, often with a descending number line; lowest digit present indicates the printing.", "First shows no later-printing notice.", "Early cooperative-era titles (1970s) were small-run; verify printing statements individually." ], "notablePoints": [ "Founded 1973 as a poets' cooperative in Cambridge, Massachusetts (named for Alice James, sister of Henry and William James); now affiliated with the University of Maine at Farmington.", "Cooperative origin means very small early print runs — early firsts are scarce.", "Standard modern conventions on current list." ], "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/publishers/alice-james-books" }, { "slug": "allen-and-unwin-australia", "name": "Allen & Unwin (Australia)", "category": "uk-commonwealth", "region": "Australia", "era": "1990-present (Australian independent)", "idMethods": [ "First printings state \"First published [Year]\" with the descending number line ending in 1 (10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1); lowest digit = printing", "Copyright page names 'Allen & Unwin' Australia and shows the original year with no later-impression line", "First printing = number line ending in 1 + no reprint notation" ], "notablePoints": [ "Became fully independent of the UK parent in 1990 — Australia's largest independent trade publisher", "Leading literary list (Tim Winton among others); follows standard modern number-line convention", "Distinct corporate entity from George Allen & Unwin UK despite shared heritage" ], "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/publishers/allen-and-unwin-australia" }, { "slug": "anchor-books", "name": "Anchor Books", "category": "us-trade", "region": "US", "era": "1953–present", "idMethods": [ "States 'First Anchor Books edition (Month Year)' on the copyright page with a descending number line ending in 1.", "Predominantly a quality trade-paperback REPRINT line — 'first Anchor edition' is usually NOT the first edition of the work.", "Trace true firsts to the original Doubleday / Nan A. Talese / Knopf hardcover.", "Line ending in 1 + 'First Anchor Books edition' = first of that paperback printing only." ], "notablePoints": [ "Founded 1953 by Jason Epstein at Doubleday — credited as the pioneering 'quality paperback' (trade paperback) imprint in the US.", "Now part of the Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group within Penguin Random House (paired with Vintage).", "Confusion point: an Anchor edition is almost always a reprint; do not treat as a true first.", "Some Anchor titles were originals — verify before assigning first-edition status." ], "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/publishers/anchor-books" }, { "slug": "ancient-city-press", "name": "Ancient City Press", "category": "southwest-nm", "region": "southwest", "era": "", "idMethods": [ "ISBN prefix 0-941270", "Santa Fe, New Mexico imprint/address", "Stated “First edition” or negative-evidence", "Printing-history list on some titles" ], "notablePoints": [ "Small Santa Fe regional press; works by Marta Weigle, Marc Simmons, and Dennis Slifer." ], "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/publishers/ancient-city-press" }, { "slug": "andre-deutsch", "name": "André Deutsch", "category": "uk-commonwealth", "region": "UK", "era": "1951-present (imprint within other groups later)", "idMethods": [ "First editions state \"First published [Year]\" or \"First published in Great Britain [Year] by André Deutsch Limited\" on the copyright page; later printings noted", "First printing = statement present with no subsequent-impression lines", "Later titles may carry a number line ending in 1", "Confirm clean copyright page" ], "notablePoints": [ "Quality post-war literary list: John Updike (UK), Philip Roth (UK), V.S. Naipaul, Jean Rhys ('Wide Sargasso Sea', 1966), Norman Mailer (UK)", "Many titles are UK issues of American books — the US edition is often the true world first; verify precedence", "Founded 1951 by André Deutsch" ], "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/publishers/andre-deutsch" }, { "slug": "arion-press", "name": "Arion Press", "category": "fine-private-press", "region": "US", "era": "1974–present", "idMethods": [ "Each title is a single limited edition with a letterpress colophon stating the total limitation (typically 300–400 copies)", "Colophon is hand-numbered in Arabic numerals; a separate run of 'hors de commerce' copies is numbered in ROMAN numerals (not for sale, complimentary distribution)", "Colophon frequently carries original signatures — Andrew Hoyem (printer/designer) and/or the author and artist", "Handmade/mouldmade paper, hand-set or M & H-cast metal type, original commissioned art; no number line — the numbered, often-signed colophon is the sole identifier" ], "notablePoints": [ "Founded 1974 by Andrew Hoyem from the dissolved Grabhorn-Hoyem partnership (Edwin & Robert Grabhorn lineage)", "Landmark: the 1979 folio Ulysses with Robert Motherwell etchings (edition of 150) — among the most celebrated American fine-press books", "Because each book is a one-time limited printing, there are no later trade printings to confuse; the question is condition and which numbered/lettered subset", "Some titles have a deluxe sub-state (e.g., extra suite of prints, special binding) at a lower limitation number range" ], "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/publishers/arion-press" }, { "slug": "arkham-house", "name": "Arkham House", "category": "science-fiction-fantasy", "region": "US", "era": "1939–present (convention shifts ~mid-1960s and early 1980s)", "idMethods": [ "Pre-mid-1960s: a true first generally shows the SAME year on the title page and the copyright page (and there were typically no reprints to confuse it)", "Arkham did not number lines; the Frank Utpatel-designed colophon/device (introduced 1944) appears at the rear — reprints, when they occurred, were noted there", "Late 1960s onward: copyright page begins stating 'First Edition' or 'First Printing ()' and notes later printings", "Early 1980s onward (under James Turner): explicit 'First Edition' stated on the copyright page, with later printings noted" ], "notablePoints": [ "Founded 1939 by August Derleth and Donald Wandrei expressly to preserve H. P. Lovecraft in hardcover ('The Outsider and Others', 1939)", "Most early Arkham titles had a single small print run and were never reprinted, so an unstated copyright page is NORMAL for a first — do not mistake the absence of 'First Edition' for a later issue", "Key high spots ('The Outsider and Others' 1939, 'Beyond the Wall of Sleep' 1943) have specific binding/jacket points and tiny print runs", "Mycroft & Moran and Stanton & Lee are Arkham's sibling imprints; same era conventions apply", "Reference: 'Arkham House: The First 20 Years 1939–1959' (Derleth) and Sheldon Jaffery / Leon Nielsen bibliographies" ], "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/publishers/arkham-house" }, { "slug": "ashendene-press", "name": "Ashendene Press", "category": "fine-private-press", "region": "UK", "era": "1895–1935", "idMethods": [ "Hand-press limited editions, most using Hornby's proprietary 'Subiaco' type (and later the 'Ptolemy' type), with hand-illuminated initials in some copies", "Printed colophon stating the limitation; copies on paper plus a few on VELLUM (distinct higher state)", "Press device and colophon authenticate; fine handmade paper", "No number line — colophon limitation, Subiaco/Ptolemy type identify" ], "notablePoints": [ "Founded 1895 (private) by C. H. St John Hornby (Chelsea/Shelley House, London); with Kelmscott and Doves, one of the 'big three' English private presses", "Masterpiece: the Ashendene Dante ('Lo Inferno...'/the complete Tutte le opere, 1909) and the Don Quixote (1927–28)", "Vellum vs. paper and hand-illumination are the principal state distinctions", "Standard reference: the Ashendene Press 'A Descriptive Bibliography' (the press's own 1935 catalogue)" ], "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/publishers/ashendene-press" }, { "slug": "atheneum-byr", "name": "Atheneum Books for Young Readers", "category": "childrens-ya", "region": "US", "era": "1959–present", "idMethods": [ "Through 1986: explicitly states 'First Edition' on the copyright page", "Late 1980s onward: number line on copyright page with '1' present (1 indicates first printing); 'First Edition' statement also frequently used alongside", "First printing requires the number line to include / end in 1" ], "notablePoints": [ "Atheneum founded 1959; its children's department became a powerhouse (Newbery winners: E.L. Konigsburg's From the Mixed-Up Files 1967, The Westing Game 1978)", "Margaret K. McElderry Books (est. 1971) was the first eponymous children's imprint in US publishing; follows Atheneum house ID style. Now part of Simon & Schuster Children's", "Atheneum was absorbed into Macmillan then Simon & Schuster; imprint name persists. Older 'A Margaret K. McElderry Book' / 'A Jean Karl Book' lines on title pages help date but are not printing indicators" ], "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/publishers/atheneum-byr" }, { "slug": "atria-books", "name": "Atria Books", "category": "us-trade", "region": "US", "era": "2002–present", "idMethods": [ "States 'First Edition' or 'First Atria Books hardcover edition' on the copyright page AND uses a descending number line ending in 1.", "Simon & Schuster-family convention: explicit 'First [Imprint] edition (Year)' statement is the reliable signal.", "Number line ending in 1 alongside the statement confirms first printing.", "Reprints note 'Second edition' or shift the line / drop the statement." ], "notablePoints": [ "Founded 2002 (originally 'Atria' from Latin for entry hall); a flagship S&S commercial/literary imprint.", "Part of Simon & Schuster. S&S imprints characteristically use the verbose 'First [Imprint] hardcover edition' wording.", "Emily Bestler Books and Marysue Rucci Books are eponymous editor imprints under Atria — same convention.", "Washington Square Press is largely a trade-paperback reprint line — usually NOT a first." ], "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/publishers/atria-books" }, { "slug": "avon-books", "name": "Avon Books", "category": "us-trade", "region": "US", "era": "1941–present", "idMethods": [ "Mass-market paperback originals: copyright page shows 'First Avon … Printing (Month Year)' / 'First Edition'; a true first lists ONLY the first printing.", "Number line where present: lowest number 1 indicates first printing.", "Absence of any later-printing notation is the core test for paperback originals.", "Modern HarperCollins-era Avon follows the HC line-to-1 convention on the copyright page." ], "notablePoints": [ "Founded 1941 as a mass-market paperback house; the dominant US romance imprint, so a huge share of Avon titles are paperback FIRSTS.", "Acquired by HarperCollins (via the Hearst/Morrow acquisition, 1999); now a HarperCollins romance imprint.", "Romance collectors treat the Avon mass-market original as the true first edition.", "Older Avon paperbacks identified by series number and printing line rather than a stated 'First Edition'." ], "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/publishers/avon-books" }, { "slug": "baen-books", "name": "Baen Books", "category": "science-fiction-fantasy", "region": "US", "era": "1983–present", "idMethods": [ "Copyright page carries a 'First printing, ' statement; first printings show no later-printing notation", "Many Baen titles use a number line with '1' present — lowest digit indicates the printing", "Baen catalog/ISBN and the stated first-printing date are the cross-check (paperback originals are the 'first' for most titles)" ], "notablePoints": [ "Founded 1983 by Jim Baen; heavy in military SF and space opera (Weber, Ringo, Flint)", "Predominantly mass-market and trade paperback originals, so the paperback is frequently the true first edition", "Distributed historically by Simon & Schuster, so later printings may carry S&S distribution language" ], "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/publishers/baen-books" }, { "slug": "ballantine-books", "name": "Ballantine Books", "category": "us-trade", "region": "US", "era": "1952–present", "idMethods": [ "Number line on copyright page; first printing has the '1' present. Modern PRH-era Ballantine uses the full descending line '9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1' with no edition statement, OR with 'First Edition' stated.", "Mass-market paperback originals: copyright page reads 'First Edition: (Month Year)' or 'First Printing: (Month Year)' with NO later printings listed.", "Trade hardcovers/trade paperbacks under Ballantine often state 'First Edition' plus number line ending in 1.", "Absence of any later-printing notation is the core test for the paperback originals." ], "notablePoints": [ "Founded 1952 by Ian and Betty Ballantine; pioneer of the simultaneous hardcover/paperback original. A Ballantine PAPERBACK can be the true first edition of a title (e.g. many SF works), so 'first' may be a mass-market.", "Acquired by Random House 1973; now a Penguin Random House imprint, so post-1970s number-line convention follows RH-family style (line to 1).", "Del Rey (SF/fantasy, est. 1977) follows the same Ballantine line-to-1 convention.", "Fawcett titles (Gold Medal, Crest) carry their own pre-merger printing statements; Gold Medal paperback originals are collected as firsts." ], "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/publishers/ballantine-books" }, { "slug": "ballantine-del-rey", "name": "Ballantine Books / Del Rey", "category": "science-fiction-fantasy", "region": "US", "era": "1952–present", "idMethods": [ "Paperback originals: first printing has NO additional printings listed on the copyright page", "Reprints of titles first issued elsewhere: copyright page states 'First Printing: ' or 'First Edition: ' together with a number line containing '1'", "Del Rey titles follow Ballantine practice (number line with '1' and/or stated first printing/date)" ], "notablePoints": [ "Ballantine founded 1952 (Ian & Betty Ballantine); historically issued simultaneous hardcover + paperback in early years, complicating 'true first' for some 1950s titles", "Del Rey launched 1977 (Judy-Lynn and Lester del Rey) as Ballantine's SF/fantasy imprint — published Terry Brooks, Stephen R. Donaldson, and the Star Wars line", "Del Rey moved out from under the Ballantine division within Random House in 2013", "Ballantine's 1965 authorized paperback of Tolkien's 'The Lord of the Rings' has its own famous points vs. the unauthorized Ace edition" ], "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/publishers/ballantine-del-rey" }, { "slug": "bantam-mystery", "name": "Bantam (mystery/thriller mass-market)", "category": "mystery-crime", "region": "US", "era": "1945-present", "idMethods": [ "Bantam used a code on the copyright page indicating printing and date in some eras; in the modern era a descending number line ending in '1' marks the first printing.", "Mass-market originals: the paperback is the first edition; reprints of hardcovers are firsts-thus only.", "Bantam serial/control number plus printing statement ('First Bantam edition / month year') fixes the printing." ], "notablePoints": [ "Black Lizard (founded by Barry Gifford, later absorbed into Random House's Vintage Crime/Black Lizard) reprinted noir (Jim Thompson, David Goodis) — those are reprints of mid-century firsts, valuable as revivals but not original firsts.", "Bantam Crime Line was a 1980s-90s mystery imprint; identify by the Crime Line logo plus number line.", "Don't confuse a 'First Bantam edition' (first paperback) with the true first hardcover from another house." ], "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/publishers/bantam-mystery" }, { "slug": "bantam-books", "name": "Bantam Books", "category": "us-trade", "region": "US", "era": "1945–present", "idMethods": [ "Copyright page printing statement: classic Bantam used a printed-line phrase such as 'Bantam edition / (date)' with a printing history; a true first lists only the first printing.", "Modern Bantam (post-merger) uses a descending number line; first printing retains '1' (e.g. '10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1').", "Historically Bantam used a numeric/letter code; for mass-market originals look for a single printing line with no subsequent printings noted.", "Bantam hardcovers state 'First Edition' / 'FIRST EDITION' with the number line in PRH era." ], "notablePoints": [ "Founded 1945 (Ian Ballantine among founders); primarily a paperback house, so many Bantam firsts are mass-markets (e.g. paperback originals).", "Merged into Bantam Doubleday Dell (1986), then absorbed into Random House (1998); now Penguin Random House. Post-1998 convention follows RH line-to-1 style.", "Spectra was the SF/fantasy imprint (1985–c.2011); follows Bantam line conventions.", "Bantam frequently issued the FIRST printed appearance of a title as a paperback original, so condition/edition collectors must not assume the hardcover is the first." ], "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/publishers/bantam-books" }, { "slug": "bantam-spectra", "name": "Bantam Spectra", "category": "science-fiction-fantasy", "region": "US", "era": "1985–present", "idMethods": [ "Follows standard Bantam/Bantam Spectra practice: the copyright page carries a full descending number line and a 'A Bantam Spectra Book / [Month Year]' statement; if the number line includes '1' (e.g., '10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1') it is a first printing. Lowest digit in the line = the printing number.", "For Bantam Spectra mass-market paperbacks (1985-present) the printing is determined by the lowest number in the digit line, NOT by a separate letter code. (Note: the letter+digit date-code key on the last text/copyright page is a Dell paperback convention; do not rely on a 'letter-coded printing key' to identify a Spectra first printing.)", "Hardcover Spectra firsts use the number-line-with-1 convention, typically '10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1' with a stated month/year; later printings drop the low digits." ], "notablePoints": [ "Spectra launched 1985 as Bantam's dedicated SF/fantasy imprint (later Bantam Spectra / Bantam Dell under Random House) - confirmed.", "Published George R. R. Martin's 'A Game of Thrones' (1996). CORRECTION: the Bantam Spectra hardcover is the US first, not the world 'true first' - the UK Voyager/HarperCollins edition precedes it and is the true first edition. A US Bantam first printing shows the '10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1' line and Bantam Spectra hardcover points; the Book Club Edition (BCE) is a separate, lower-value variant lacking the price/with a blind-stamp gutter dot.", "Many Spectra titles appeared simultaneously or near-simultaneously in hardcover and trade/mass paperback, AND some titles (e.g., AGOT) were published abroad first - always confirm both format priority and country priority before calling a copy the 'true first'." ], "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/publishers/bantam-spectra" }, { "slug": "berkley-jove", "name": "Berkley / Jove", "category": "us-trade", "region": "US", "era": "1955–present", "idMethods": [ "Mass-market originals: copyright page shows a printing statement; a true first reads 'Berkley/Jove edition / (Month Year)' or 'First printing' with NO later printings listed.", "Modern lines use a descending number line; presence of 1 indicates first printing.", "For paperback originals, the absence of any reprint notation is the primary test.", "Stated 'First edition' rare on mass-markets; rely on printing-history line." ], "notablePoints": [ "Predominantly mass-market houses, so MANY Berkley/Jove/Ace titles are paperback FIRSTS (genre fiction, SF, romance, thrillers).", "Now part of the Berkley Publishing Group within Penguin Random House (via Penguin Putnam / G.P. Putnam's Sons lineage).", "Ace Books (SF) is the famous sibling — Ace Doubles (tête-bêche two-novels-in-one) are collected by their serial 'D-'/'F-'/'G-' designations.", "Genre collectors treat the paperback original as the true first edition; later hardcover book-club or reprint editions are not." ], "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/publishers/berkley-jove" }, { "slug": "bird-and-bull-press", "name": "Bird & Bull Press", "category": "fine-private-press", "region": "US", "era": "1958–c.2013", "idMethods": [ "Letterpress limited editions printed on Morris's own HANDMADE PAPER (he made the paper as well as printing) — paper character is a house signature", "Printed colophon with small stated limitation (often ~100–300), hand-numbered; many signed by Henry Morris", "Specialist subject matter (history of papermaking, marbling, fine printing) with tipped-in paper/marbling specimens — presence and completeness of specimens authenticates the first issue", "No number line — colophon limitation and the handmade-paper stock identify" ], "notablePoints": [ "Founded 1958 by Henry Morris (Pennsylvania); the leading American private press devoted to the literature and specimens of papermaking and decorated paper", "Books often contain tipped-in samples of handmade or marbled paper — missing specimens reduce completeness/value", "Editions are small; each is effectively a single limited printing", "Highly prized by book-arts collectors for both content and the paper itself" ], "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/publishers/bird-and-bull-press" }, { "slug": "black-sparrow-press", "name": "Black Sparrow Press", "category": "poetry-literary", "region": "US", "era": "1966–2002 (original press)", "idMethods": [ "TITLE-PAGE COLOR is the master point: a first printing has a title page printed in two or more colors; ALL later printings have a title page in black only. This is the single most reliable Black Sparrow first-edition tell.", "Copyright page of a first lists no additional printings.", "Multi-tier issue structure per title: (1) lettered signed/limited (e.g., 26 lettered A–Z) often with original holograph or artwork, (2) numbered signed limited (e.g., 250–300 copies) on better paper with a limitation/colophon leaf at the rear, (3) trade hardcover (cloth/boards), (4) trade paperback wrappers — all four can be 'firsts' of the first printing; tier is identified by the limitation statement.", "Limitation/colophon leaf at the BACK states the print run and signing; signed-limited copies are numbered and signed there.", "Deluxe/limited bindings done by Earle Gray Book Binding Company (most BSP deluxe books 1968–2002)." ], "notablePoints": [ "Founded 1966 by John Martin in Los Angeles; defining publisher of Charles Bukowski (Post Office 1971, Women 1978), plus Paul Bowles, John Fante, Wyndham Lewis, Diane Wakoski, Robert Kelly.", "Distinctive Barbara Martin cover design (bold typographic wrappers) is a house signature but is NOT itself a printing point.", "Common confusion: a black-only title page on a Bukowski title that 'looks first' is actually a later printing — always check title-page color.", "After the press closed (2002), Black Sparrow name/backlist split: David R. Godine continues 'Black Sparrow Books'; HarperCollins/Ecco acquired the Bukowski list — later corporate reissues are not BSP firsts." ], "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/publishers/black-sparrow-press" }, { "slug": "bloomsbury-publishing", "name": "Bloomsbury Publishing", "category": "uk-commonwealth", "region": "UK", "era": "1986-present", "idMethods": [ "First printings carry a full descending number line \"10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1\" on the copyright page; the lowest number (1) present = first printing", "Copyright page should show only the original publication year and no later printer/edition statement", "Some later titles also print the words \"First Edition\" on the copyright page alongside the number line", "First printing = number line ending in 1 AND no mention of a subsequent edition, later date, or different publisher" ], "notablePoints": [ "Harry Potter is the defining case: 'Philosopher's Stone' (1997) true first = number line 10...1, '1 wand' listed twice on p.53, 'Joanne Rowling' credit, Thomas Taylor cover, print run of only ~500 hardcovers — among the most valuable modern firsts", "Chamber of Secrets (1998) & Prisoner of Azkaban (1999) firsts: number line 10...1, no later-printing/edition statement", "Goblet of Fire, Order of the Phoenix, Half-Blood Prince, Deathly Hallows firsts say \"First Edition\" on the copyright page", "Founded 1986 — a relatively young house, so number-line convention applies throughout" ], "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/publishers/bloomsbury-publishing" }, { "slug": "boa-editions", "name": "BOA Editions, Ltd.", "category": "poetry-literary", "region": "US", "era": "1976–present", "idMethods": [ "Modern convention: copyright page states 'First Edition' and/or carries a descending number line (lowest digit present = printing number).", "Series designation 'American Poets Continuum Series, No. NNN' appears on the copyright/series page and dates/places the title.", "First with no later-printing notice; later printings add a printing line or advance the number line.", "Early BOA letterpress chapbooks/broadsides and signed limiteds carry a rear colophon/limitation statement." ], "notablePoints": [ "Founded 1976 by A. Poulin, Jr. in Brockport/Rochester, New York; nonprofit poetry and translation press.", "Published Lucille Clifton, Li-Young Lee, W.D. Snodgrass, Dorianne Laux; the American Poets Continuum Series is the flagship numbered line.", "Early titles were small-run and sometimes letterpress — verify printing statements individually for 1970s–80s items." ], "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/publishers/boa-editions" }, { "slug": "bobbs-merrill", "name": "Bobbs-Merrill Company", "category": "vintage-us", "region": "US", "era": "1900s-1950s", "idMethods": [ "Early firsts (pre-1920s): a month only on the copyright page, with no printing statement.", "Pre-1920s: a bow-and-arrow device (the Bobbs-Merrill colophon) on the copyright page was the era's first-edition signal — but applied inconsistently. Note: standard dealer references (Quill & Brush, ILAB/Biblio) place this device in the PRE-1920s period, not the 1920s as commonly misstated.", "After ~1920: firsts generally state 'First Edition' on the copyright page, the printed statement having largely superseded the device — still inconsistent.", "From 1936: firsts state 'First Edition' OR 'First Printing' on the copyright page, and the publisher became markedly more consistent (a statement is generally expected on a true first from this point on)." ], "notablePoints": [ "Notoriously inconsistent before 1936 — they frequently omitted ANY statement of printing, so absence of a statement is not conclusive either way for pre-1936 titles.", "The bow-and-arrow device, when present, is a positive first-edition indicator, but its absence does not rule out a first; it belongs primarily to the pre-1920s era rather than the 1920s.", "Publisher of children's/Americana (Raggedy Ann, the orange/black biographies series) where points vary title-by-title; always cross-check the specific title against a points guide such as FEDPO." ], "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/publishers/bobbs-merrill" }, { "slug": "boni-liveright", "name": "Boni & Liveright / Horace Liveright", "category": "vintage-us", "region": "US", "era": "1917-1933 (revived 1970s+)", "idMethods": [ "No statement of printing on the copyright page of firsts; later printings designated 'second printing', etc.", "Therefore: absence of any later-printing notice = first printing (for the vintage era).", "From the 1970s (revived Liveright): a number line with '1' present indicates a first." ], "notablePoints": [ "Originated the Modern Library series before selling it to Bennett Cerf/Random House in 1925 — a key bibliographic crossover.", "Major 1920s modernist house (Eliot's 'The Waste Land', Hemingway's 'In Our Time' US, Faulkner, Pound, Hart Crane) — these high-spots have detailed title-level points.", "Boni & Liveright (1917-1928) → Horace Liveright Inc. (1928-1933) → Liveright Inc.; the imprint name on the title page dates the copy." ], "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/publishers/boni-liveright" }, { "slug": "cambridge-up", "name": "Cambridge University Press", "category": "university-academic", "region": "trade", "era": "", "idMethods": [ "Edition statement on title/copyright page", "Number line (modern era)", "Absence of later-printing notice (older titles)" ], "notablePoints": [ "Academic-press conventions; printing distinctions matter less to scholarly buyers than to literary collectors." ], "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/publishers/cambridge-up" }, { "slug": "candlewick-press", "name": "Candlewick Press", "category": "childrens-ya", "region": "US", "era": "1992–present", "idMethods": [ "Full descending number line on copyright page; first printing ends in 1 (e.g. 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1) — the number-line position of '1' is the authoritative first-printing signal", "Often states 'First edition' or 'First U.S. edition' on the copyright page (Candlewick is the US arm of UK Walker Books, so many titles are 'First U.S. edition' of a prior UK Walker printing)", "Library binding / reinforced trade editions exist; check copyright page number line not binding" ], "notablePoints": [ "Founded 1992 (Somerville, MA) as the US arm of Walker Books UK; employee/independent-owned", "Major titles: Guess How Much I Love You, the Mega/Maisy line, Kate DiCamillo (Because of Winn-Dixie, Tale of Despereaux — Newbery), Judy Moody, M.T. Anderson", "A US 'First U.S. edition' is NOT the true world first if a Walker Books UK edition preceded it — distinguish first-printing-of-this-edition from first-in-the-world" ], "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/publishers/candlewick-press" }, { "slug": "cassell", "name": "Cassell & Co.", "category": "uk-commonwealth", "region": "UK", "era": "1848-present", "idMethods": [ "Pre-early-1920s: year printed on the TITLE PAGE of the first edition with the copyright page left blank; later printings carry a later copyright-page date or reprint note", "Early 1920s onward: \"First published [Year]\" or \"First published in Great Britain [Year]\" stated on the copyright page of firsts; subsequent printings noted", "First printing = era-appropriate (title-page date pre-1920s / copyright statement after) with no reprint notation", "Modern Cassell uses number lines" ], "notablePoints": [ "Published Winston Churchill ('The Second World War', 'A History of the English-Speaking Peoples'), H.G. Wells, Robert Louis Stevenson ('Treasure Island' in book form, 1883)", "The pre-1920s blank-copyright-page / title-page-date practice mirrors early Heinemann and is a common confusion", "Now part of the Orion/Hachette group" ], "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/publishers/cassell" }, { "slug": "cemetery-dance", "name": "Cemetery Dance Publications", "category": "science-fiction-fantasy", "region": "US", "era": "1988–present", "idMethods": [ "Limited states identified by a signature/limitation sheet near the front, e.g. 'This is one of 1000 signed Limited copies'", "Traycased LETTERED editions run either 26 (A–Z) or 52 (AA–ZZ) signed copies; there are NO second printings of lettered editions", "Numbered signed editions state the run on the limitation sheet; trade hardcovers follow standard number-line-with-1 / no-later-printing practice" ], "notablePoints": [ "Founded 1988 by Richard Chizmar; the leading modern horror specialty press (Stephen King, Bentley Little, Bradbury)", "Tiered releases (Trade / Signed Numbered Limited / Signed Lettered Traycased) — identify state by the limitation sheet, not just the copyright page", "Frequent very long lead times mean some announced limiteds differ from delivered states; verify the actual limitation leaf" ], "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/publishers/cemetery-dance" }, { "slug": "scribners-vintage", "name": "Charles Scribner's Sons", "category": "vintage-us", "region": "US", "era": "1846-1978 (vintage convention 1930-1973)", "idMethods": [ "Pre-1930: Scribner seal/device plus month-and-year of publication on copyright page; first printings either carry matching dates on title page and copyright page or show no later printings noted.", "The famous capital 'A' on the copyright page denotes a first printing. Introduced late 1929 and used 1930-1973.", "Classic form 'A-3.64[H]': A = printing (A=1st, B=2nd...), 3.64 = March 1964 date, [H]=hardcover / [P]=paperback. Presence of leading 'A' = true first.", "Later printings drop the 'A' or advance it to B, C, etc.", "After 1973 the letter code was abandoned in favor of a descending number line ending in 1." ], "notablePoints": [ "The single 'A' is the single most reliable Scribner point for 1930-1973 and is widely faked/misread — verify it is a standalone 'A' tied to the date code, not a random letter.", "Hemingway's 'The Old Man and the Sea' (1952): first issue has the 'A' on the copyright page plus the Scribner seal; absence of the 'A' = later printing.", "Some pre-1930 firsts have no statement at all — rely on matching title/copyright dates and absence of any 'reprinted' notice.", "Distinct from the modern Scribner imprint (now part of Simon & Schuster) which uses a Random-House-style number line." ], "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/publishers/scribners-vintage" }, { "slug": "scribners", "name": "Charles Scribner's Sons", "category": "us-trade", "region": "trade", "era": "", "idMethods": [ "The Scribner “A” on the copyright page (c.1930–1973)", "Number line (1974–present)", "Scribner seal / device" ], "notablePoints": [ "A BOMC edition of The Old Man and the Sea was distributed at the same time — distinguish it by the absence of the Scribner seal and the presence of a rear-board blind stamp." ], "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/publishers/scribners" }, { "slug": "chatto-and-windus", "name": "Chatto & Windus", "category": "uk-commonwealth", "region": "UK", "era": "1855-present", "idMethods": [ "No first-edition statement is the norm. Per the authoritative QBbooks/Bookman's and ILAB publisher guides: 'In general, no statement on first editions, although sometimes states \"Published by Chatto & Windus\" (without a date); subsequent printings noted.' Identify a first printing by the ABSENCE of any later-printing/reprint statement, not by any positive device.", "The sometimes-present statement is 'Published by Chatto & Windus' WITHOUT a date, plus the printer's imprint (often R. & R. Clark, Edinburgh, in the early-mid 20th c.). Treat the claimed 'First published in Great Britain [Year]' formula as a general modern-British convention, not a verified Chatto-specific point.", "Chatto may have added a descending number line in the early 1990s; under Random House (purchased 1987) / Vintage (Penguin Random House), a number line ending in 1 indicates a first printing.", "First printing = no later-printing statement present (the key test for this publisher), corroborated where applicable by a number line ending in 1 on post-1990 titles." ], "notablePoints": [ "CORRECTION: The 'encircled-R on first editions, removed on reprints' device is NOT a Chatto & Windus practice. It is the documented convention of RINEHART & CO. (an American publisher), per the ILAB and QBbooks publisher guides. Attributing it to Chatto & Windus is a fabrication; do not use it as a Chatto identification point.", "Published Aldous Huxley ('Brave New World', Chatto & Windus, 1932 — verified), Iris Murdoch (her UK publisher; e.g. 'An Unofficial Rose', 1962), Wilfred Owen ('Poems', Chatto & Windus, 1920), and Richard Hughes.", "In 1946 Chatto & Windus took over the running of the Hogarth Press (founded 1917 by Leonard and Virginia Woolf) — a takeover, not a merger of equals; some titles carry the Hogarth imprint.", "Ownership: purchased by Random House in 1987; as of recent years an imprint of Vintage Publishing UK under Penguin Random House." ], "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/publishers/chatto-and-windus" }, { "slug": "cheloniidae-press", "name": "Cheloniidae Press", "category": "fine-private-press", "region": "US", "era": "c.1979–1990s", "idMethods": [ "Small letterpress limited editions with hand-numbered, often-signed colophons; original Robinson wood engravings/etchings (natural-history/animal subjects — the press name is the sea-turtle family)", "Deluxe states typically add an extra suite of signed prints and a special binding, stated in the colophon at a lower number range", "Signed by Alan James Robinson and collaborating writers; no number line — colophon is definitive" ], "notablePoints": [ "Founded c.1979 by Alan James Robinson (Easthampton, MA); known for finely illustrated natural-history and literary titles (e.g., works on Poe's 'The Raven', Aesop, bestiaries)", "Wood-engraved animal imagery is the house hallmark", "Very limited output; deluxe vs. standard distinction is the main state question", "Often confused only with other Pioneer Valley (MA) presses (Gehenna, Pennyroyal) due to shared engraving milieu" ], "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/publishers/cheloniidae-press" }, { "slug": "chronicle-books", "name": "Chronicle Books", "category": "regional-specialty", "region": "US", "era": "1967–present", "idMethods": [ "Number line on copyright page; first printing shows the complete descending line ending in 1", "Stated 'First Edition' / 'First published in [year]' appears on many titles, but high-design gift/illustrated titles often rely on the number line alone", "San Francisco publisher founded 1967; design-forward illustrated nonfiction, gift, and cookbooks — conventional modern identification", "Reprint/printing notes sometimes include manufacturing country and date but those are not edition points" ], "notablePoints": [ "Gift and stationery-adjacent titles are reprinted heavily; the number line is the most reliable printing indicator since stated-firsts are inconsistent across the catalog", "Owns Princeton Architectural Press (which carries its own imprint name on the title page but uses the same number-line convention)", "No proprietary house key" ], "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/publishers/chronicle-books" }, { "slug": "chronicle-levine-querido", "name": "Chronicle Books (children's) / Levine Querido", "category": "childrens-ya", "region": "US", "era": "1967–present (Chronicle); Levine Querido 2019–present", "idMethods": [ "Chronicle: full descending number line ending in 1 on the copyright page; frequently states 'First edition' and the year", "Levine Querido (founded 2019 by Arthur A. Levine): number line to 1; states 'First edition' — a distinct company from the former Arthur A. Levine Books at Scholastic", "First printing requires number line reaching 1" ], "notablePoints": [ "Chronicle is a design-forward independent (San Francisco) with heavily collected picture books and novelty formats", "IMPORTANT distinction: 'Arthur A. Levine Books' at Scholastic (1996–2019, Harry Potter US) vs 'Levine Querido' (2019–, independent, Chronicle-distributed) are different entities — do not conflate when attributing firsts", "Levine Querido has rapidly accrued Newbery/Printz honors (e.g. Pura Belpré, Printz)" ], "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/publishers/chronicle-levine-querido" }, { "slug": "cinco-puntos-press", "name": "Cinco Puntos Press", "category": "southwest-nm", "region": "southwest", "era": "", "idMethods": [ "Stated “First Edition” (primary method)", "Number line when present", "ISBN prefix", "Distinguish from post-2021 Lee & Low reprints" ], "notablePoints": [ "Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Joe Hayes, Luis Alberto Urrea, and Dagoberto Gilb are flagship Cinco Puntos authors. Watch for Lee & Low reprints sold as firsts." ], "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/publishers/cinco-puntos-press" }, { "slug": "city-lights-books", "name": "City Lights Books / City Lights Publishers", "category": "poetry-literary", "region": "US", "era": "1955–present", "idMethods": [ "Early titles: a first has no additional printings listed on the copyright page (no number line in the early Beat era).", "Later titles: copyright page either states 'First Edition' or simply shows no later-printing notice; modern titles add a descending number line (1 present = first).", "Pocket Poets cover-state points: Nos. 1–6 have the pasted-on wraparound printed paper label tipped to the wrapper; from No. 7 a printed cover simulating that label design was used; from No. 21 (1967) illustrated covers begin — wrong cover state flags a later printing/issue.", "Original price on the rear wrapper is a state point on early issues (e.g., Howl, Pocket Poets No. 4, priced 75¢ at upper-left of rear panel on the first printing).", "Pocket Poets series number (printed on the cover) fixes the title's place in the series." ], "notablePoints": [ "Founded 1953 (bookstore) by Lawrence Ferlinghetti and Peter D. Martin; publishing arm launched 1955 with the Pocket Poets Series.", "Ginsberg's HOWL AND OTHER POEMS (Pocket Poets No. 4, 1956) is the landmark point-of-issue title: the genuine first printing was printed by Villiers in England, 1,000 copies; later printings are common — distinguish by printer statement, price, and absence of later-printing notice.", "Pictures of the Gone World (Pocket Poets No. 1, 1955, 500 copies) is the scarce series debut.", "Saddle-stapled printed wrappers are normal for the series; condition of the tipped-on label matters on Nos. 1–6." ], "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/publishers/city-lights-books" }, { "slug": "clear-light-publishers", "name": "Clear Light Publishers", "category": "southwest-nm", "region": "southwest", "era": "", "idMethods": [ "ISBN prefixes 978-0-940666 and 978-1-57416", "Negative-evidence (no reprint language)", "Number line when present" ], "notablePoints": [ "Native American cultural documentation, Pueblo history, and Southwest photography." ], "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/publishers/clear-light-publishers" }, { "slug": "coffee-house-press", "name": "Coffee House Press", "category": "regional-specialty", "region": "US", "era": "1984–present (Toothpaste Press antecedent 1970s)", "idMethods": [ "Stated 'First Edition' / 'FIRST EDITION' on the copyright page on early printings is common for literary titles", "Descending number line ending in 1 indicates first printing (contemporary standard)", "Nonprofit literary press, Minneapolis, founded 1984 (grew out of Allan Kornblum's Toothpaste Press); fine-press lineage means some titles have notably designed copyright/colophon pages", "Letterpress/limited or signed states exist for some early titles — distinguish a trade first from a signed/limited issue" ], "notablePoints": [ "Toothpaste Press (Kornblum's earlier West Branch, Iowa letterpress imprint, 1970s) is the antecedent and uses true fine-press colophons with limitation statements — a separate identification regime from the trade Coffee House line", "For Coffee House trade titles, rely on stated-first + number line; no idiosyncratic house point", "Watch for absent number line indicating later printing on reprinted award winners" ], "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/publishers/coffee-house-press" }, { "slug": "collins-crime-club", "name": "Collins Crime Club", "category": "mystery-crime", "region": "UK", "era": "1930-1994", "idMethods": [ "Collins (UK) generally did NOT use 'First Edition' statements or number lines in the classic era; firsts are identified by the absence of later-printing/reprint notices on the copyright/verso page combined with a publication date matching the jacket.", "For collected authors (Agatha Christie etc.), identification is point-driven: jacket price, rear-panel advertisements, and the famous Crime Club 'gunman' device on the jacket. 'A Crime Club Sixpenny' lettered in the gunman's arm dates the cheaper line.", "First-state jacket points are documented title-by-title (e.g., specific rear-panel ads — OXO, H. Samuel, Bravingtons — on early-1930s sixpenny issues).", "Cross-reference gadetection's Collins Crime Club UK first-editions list and Christie bibliographies (nocloo, collectingchristie)." ], "notablePoints": [ "Ran 6 May 1930 to April 1994; ~2,012 titles. Pre-war firsts in jacket are the prize, with vivid gunman-device jacket art.", "Easy to confuse the cloth Crime Club hardback first with the Collins White Circle paperback reprint — White Circles are paperbacks and never the true first.", "US Dodd, Mead / Dell Mapback editions of the same Christie titles are separate publications, not the UK Collins first; dating and points differ entirely.", "Date-matching is essential: Collins reprinted popular titles quickly with no obvious printing statement, so a copy must be tied to first-state jacket points, not just the verso." ], "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/publishers/collins-crime-club" }, { "slug": "columbia-university-press", "name": "Columbia University Press", "category": "university-academic", "region": "US", "era": "1893–present", "idMethods": [ "Copyright page states later printings/editions; a first printing carries the copyright line with no subsequent-printing notice. Modern titles add a number line where '1' = first printing.", "Revised and expanded editions are explicitly dated and numbered on the copyright page.", "Many translation series (e.g., Translations from the Asian Classics) are reprinted/revised — check the printing history line." ], "notablePoints": [ "Standard academic convention: later printings noted rather than the first affirmatively marked (pre-number-line era).", "Wallflower Press (film studies) and other acquired imprints may show their own pre-Columbia printing history." ], "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/publishers/columbia-university-press" }, { "slug": "copper-canyon-press", "name": "Copper Canyon Press", "category": "poetry-literary", "region": "US", "era": "1972–present", "idMethods": [ "Modern convention: first printing typically stated as 'First Printing' or 'First Edition' on the copyright page, frequently accompanied by a descending number line (10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1) — lowest digit 1 present indicates the first printing.", "Absence of any later-printing line on the copyright page, combined with the stated first/number line, confirms a first.", "Letterpress / fine-press limited editions exist for some titles with a rear colophon stating the limitation and any signing — these are a separate, more valuable issue identified by the colophon." ], "notablePoints": [ "Founded 1972 (Denver) by Sam Hamill, Tree Swenson, Bill O'Daly, Jim Gautney; since 1974 in Port Townsend, Washington. Nonprofit, poetry-only.", "Publishes W.S. Merwin, Pablo Neruda (translations), Ted Kooser, Jim Harrison, Ocean Vuong; strong design/letterpress heritage (Hamill/Swenson were printers).", "Because it is a small nonprofit press, number-line/stated-first practice has been fairly consistent in the modern era but verify per title — some early-1970s titles predate uniform copyright-page conventions." ], "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/publishers/copper-canyon-press" }, { "slug": "cornell-university-press", "name": "Cornell University Press", "category": "university-academic", "region": "US", "era": "1869–present", "idMethods": [ "First printings carry the copyright line with no later-printing notice; subsequent printings/editions stated on the copyright page. Modern titles add a number line where '1' = first printing.", "Copyright page prints a printing line ('First published 19xx'); revised editions are dated and numbered.", "Comstock (natural history/science) and ILR (labor) imprints follow the same conventions." ], "notablePoints": [ "Founded 1869; among the oldest US university presses.", "Comstock Publishing Associates is the long-running natural-science imprint — an imprint identifier, not a printing indicator.", "Standard academic later-printing-noted convention for older books; use the number line for modern reprints with unchanged copyright years." ], "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/publishers/cornell-university-press" }, { "slug": "counterpoint-press", "name": "Counterpoint Press", "category": "regional-specialty", "region": "US", "era": "1994–present (consolidated 2007)", "idMethods": [ "Stated 'First Edition' on the copyright page typical for literary titles", "Descending number line ending in 1 on first printings (modern standard)", "Originally founded 1994 (Jack Shoemaker / Frank Pearl, Washington DC), reconstituted in Berkeley; complex lineage merging Counterpoint, Shoemaker & Hoard, and Soft Skull — current Counterpoint dates to 2007 consolidation", "Read stated-first and number line together" ], "notablePoints": [ "Corporate history is tangled (Perseus-era Counterpoint, Shoemaker & Hoard, then 2007 Berkeley consolidation under Charlie Winton) — the imprint name on the title page dates the era but identification convention is constant", "Distributes/published with Soft Skull and (formerly) Catapult under the same group; each carries its own imprint name but conventional identification", "No proprietary house key" ], "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/publishers/counterpoint-press" }, { "slug": "coward-mccann", "name": "Coward-McCann", "category": "vintage-us", "region": "US", "era": "1928-1970s", "idMethods": [ "Generally inconsistent in marking first editions; subsequent printings were usually noted, so the absence of a later-printing notice is the baseline signal (always cross-check title-level point guides).", "Until the mid-1930s: a torch-design colophon on the copyright page typically marked first editions; the torch portion of the colophon was removed on subsequent printings.", "After 1935: 'First American Edition' stated on the copyright page for books first published OUTSIDE the US; NO statement made on books first published in the US (so a US-first book carries no edition statement at all)." ], "notablePoints": [ "Because the house was inconsistent, specific titles should always be cross-checked against title-level point guides rather than relying on the general convention.", "Do NOT confuse Coward-McCann with Reynal & Hitchcock. The torch-colophon convention is Coward-McCann's OWN and is NOT shared with Reynal & Hitchcock. Per ILAB/qbbooks, Reynal & Hitchcock made no statement on first editions until 1947 (subsequent printings noted); there is no documented R&H torch colophon. The claim of a 'shared torch-colophon convention / related design lineage' is unsupported and misleading." ], "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/publishers/coward-mccann" }, { "slug": "crippen-landru", "name": "Crippen & Landru", "category": "mystery-crime", "region": "US", "era": "1994-present", "idMethods": [ "Most titles issued in TWO simultaneous states: (1) a clothbound edition, signed and numbered (limited, e.g., 'one of 150/300/400 copies'), and (2) a trade softcover. The limitation page/colophon states the number and signature.", "Limited clothbound copies are numbered (e.g., '16/400') and signed by the author and/or editor; many include a separately printed bonus chapbook/pamphlet laid in — presence of the chapbook is a state point.", "Trade softcover is the first softcover edition (not a reprint of the cloth); identify by copyright-page edition statement and absence of limitation/signature.", "Cloth lettered on the spine in metallic ink; binding cloth color and spine lettering are described per title." ], "notablePoints": [ "Small specialist press (founded 1994, Norfolk VA, later Cincinnati OH) publishing single-author mystery short-story collections — the cloth signed/numbered state is the premium collectible.", "The laid-in chapbook is frequently separated/lost; a complete signed/numbered copy must include it.", "Lost Classics titles collect deceased authors, so 'signed' applies to the editor, not the author — read the limitation wording carefully.", "Douglas Greene (founder); 25th-anniversary 'Silver Bullets' (2019) documents the press." ], "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/publishers/crippen-landru" }, { "slug": "crown-publishers", "name": "Crown Publishers", "category": "us-trade", "region": "US", "era": "1933–present", "idMethods": [ "Pre-1970s: NO first-edition statement; first printings identified by the ABSENCE of any later-printing notation on the copyright page. Later printings were noted.", "1970s onward: began using both a number row AND the words 'First Edition'.", "From c.1980: stated 'First Edition' together with a descending number line ending in 1 — the modern reliable test.", "Trade imprints (Clarkson Potter, Harmony, Three Rivers) follow Crown/RH-family convention: 'First Edition' + number line to 1." ], "notablePoints": [ "Founded 1933 (out of the remainder firm Outlet Book Company); known for affordable trade and reference titles.", "Acquired by Random House 1988; now the Crown Publishing Group within Penguin Random House.", "Pre-1970s identification is easy to get wrong — rely on absence-of-reprint-line logic, not on a stated 'First Edition' that won't be there.", "Three Rivers Press is largely a trade-paperback reprint line — usually NOT a true first." ], "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/publishers/crown-publishers" }, { "slug": "cuala-press", "name": "Cuala Press", "category": "fine-private-press", "region": "Ireland", "era": "1902–1946 (Dun Emer 1902–08; Cuala 1908–46, later revivals)", "idMethods": [ "Hand-press limited editions on Irish handmade paper, printed with Caslon type; printed colophon giving a small stated limitation (often a few hundred)", "The Cuala (or earlier Dun Emer) device/colophon and the 'Press' statement identify the issue and era — Dun Emer (1902–08) vs. Cuala (1908 on)", "First Yeats editions: many W. B. Yeats first appearances were issued by Cuala in small limitations — identify by the colophon and the dated Cuala imprint", "No number line — colophon limitation and the Dun Emer/Cuala imprint distinguish" ], "notablePoints": [ "Founded 1902 as the Dun Emer Press by Elizabeth Yeats (part of the Arts and Crafts / Celtic Revival); renamed Cuala Press 1908; central to the Irish Literary Revival", "Many genuine FIRST EDITIONS of W. B. Yeats, Synge, Lady Gregory, and others — unlike most fine presses, Cuala issued original first appearances, so these ARE collectible firsts", "Dun Emer (1902–08) vs. Cuala (1908+) is the key dating distinction", "Also issued hand-coloured prints and broadsides; the press was family-run (Yeats sisters)" ], "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/publishers/cuala-press" }, { "slug": "appleton", "name": "D. Appleton & Company", "category": "vintage-us", "region": "US", "era": "1830s-1940s", "idMethods": [ "Numerical identification in parentheses/brackets at the FOOT OF THE LAST PAGE of text: '(1)' = first printing, '(2)' = second, etc.", "May occasionally have used a 'First Edition' statement instead of the foot-of-last-page number.", "Match title-page date with single date on copyright page." ], "notablePoints": [ "The point is at the END of the book (last text page), not the copyright page — a frequent miss for those checking only the front matter.", "Became Appleton-Century in 1933 (merger with Century Co.), then Appleton-Century-Crofts — the foot-of-page number convention can persist." ], "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/publishers/appleton" }, { "slug": "dalkey-archive-press", "name": "Dalkey Archive Press", "category": "poetry-literary", "region": "US", "era": "1984–present (Deep Vellum from 2021)", "idMethods": [ "Modern convention: copyright page states 'First Edition' / 'First printing' often with a descending number line; '1' indicates first printing.", "Many Dalkey titles are reprints/translations of older works — the Dalkey edition is a 'first thus' (first Dalkey/first US/first English-language edition), which the copyright page and translation/first-publication notes clarify.", "First lacks later-printing notice." ], "notablePoints": [ "Founded 1984 by John O'Brien (named for Flann O'Brien's The Dalkey Archive); grew out of the Review of Contemporary Fiction; based variously at Illinois State / Champaign and Dublin; now under Deep Vellum (acquired 2021).", "Specializes in avant-garde and translated literature — most collectible 'firsts' are first-English-language or first-US editions ('first thus'), not first-ever editions of the work.", "Check translation copyright and 'first published in [language] in [year]' notes to understand exactly which 'first' a copy represents." ], "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/publishers/dalkey-archive-press" }, { "slug": "daw-books", "name": "DAW Books", "category": "science-fiction-fantasy", "region": "US", "era": "1971–present", "idMethods": [ "PRIMARY tell is the DAW 'collector's number' (sequential book number), NOT a conventional number line — through June 1984 it sat inside the yellow logo box on the front cover/spine; from mid-1984 it was moved to the copyright page", "First printings carry a 'First Printing, ' statement on the copyright page; absence of any later-printing notation plus the first-printing date confirms a first", "Cross-check the DAW book number against the title's known first-printing number; reprints reuse the same collector's number, so rely on the printing statement / price for state" ], "notablePoints": [ "Founded 1971 by Donald A. Wollheim — first mass-market house owned by and named after an individual; long famous for uniform bright-yellow spines (yellow-spine era ~1971–mid 1980s)", "Because most DAW titles were paperback originals, the 'first edition' IS the paperback — there is usually no prior hardcover", "DAW hardcover/club tie-ins and later Penguin-distributed printings carry different copyright-page language", "Now an imprint under Astra Publishing House (post-2022); historically distributed by NAL/Penguin" ], "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/publishers/daw-books" }, { "slug": "dell-mapbacks", "name": "Dell (Mapbacks / paperback originals)", "category": "mystery-crime", "region": "US", "era": "1943-1960s", "idMethods": [ "Dell-number identification: every Dell paperback carried a sequential Dell number. Mapbacks run roughly #5 to ~#550 (books #1-4 had no map). The Dell number plus the back-cover map/keyhole-eye logo establishes the series and approximate date.", "First printing of a given Dell number is identified by the absence of any reprint/printing notice on the copyright page and a price matching the era; many Dell mapbacks are effectively single-printing, so the issue point is the Dell number itself.", "Back cover bears a pictorial 'map' (or chart/blueprint) of the scene of the crime, with a front-cover banner sometimes reading 'with crime map on back cover'; 'eye-in-keyhole' logo on the front.", "Dell First Editions (from 1953, prefix 'A###' / 'First Edition' line) are paperback ORIGINALS — the paperback IS the first edition; look for the 'Dell First Edition' designation." ], "notablePoints": [ "Mapbacks (1943-1951): the back-cover map (many by illustrator Ruth Belew) is the defining feature; maps faded out by 1951.", "A 'Dell First Edition' (post-1953) is a true first printing of an original work and has no prior hardcover — distinct from Dell mapback REPRINTS of hardcover novels (e.g., Christie titles originally from Dodd, Mead), which are reprints, not firsts.", "Condition-sensitive: spine, map clarity, and cover gloss drive value; price on cover helps date.", "Do not confuse with later glue-bound Dell reprints that reused numbers/series names." ], "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/publishers/dell-mapbacks" }, { "slug": "dell-publishing", "name": "Dell Publishing", "category": "us-trade", "region": "US", "era": "1942–present", "idMethods": [ "Mass-market originals: copyright page shows a printing statement; a true first lists only 'First printing (date)' or a number line including 1 with no later printings.", "Delacorte Press hardcovers (the Dell trade-hardcover line) typically state 'First printing' / 'First Edition' and use a number line ending in 1.", "Older Dell mapbacks/paperbacks identified by series number and the absence of reprint notations rather than a stated edition.", "Modern Dell (PRH) uses a descending number line; presence of 1 = first." ], "notablePoints": [ "Dell was historically a paperback/magazine house; Delacorte Press (est. 1921, revived as Dell's hardcover imprint) is where Dell hardcover firsts appear.", "Vintage 'Dell mapbacks' (1940s–50s, maps on rear cover) are collected by their series numbering.", "Became Bantam Doubleday Dell, then folded into Random House (1998) → Penguin Random House. Post-merger follows RH number-line convention.", "Yearling/Laurel-Leaf are children's/YA reprint lines — usually NOT firsts." ], "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/publishers/dell-publishing" }, { "slug": "detective-book-club", "name": "Detective Book Club (Walter J. Black)", "category": "mystery-crime", "region": "US", "era": "1942-1990s", "idMethods": [ "These are BOOK-CLUB editions by design — they are NOT first editions. Identification is the inverse skill: recognizing a DBC volume so it is not mistaken for a first.", "Tells: three novels bound in one omnibus volume; uniform binding/jacket styling across the series; no original publisher's price; cheaper paper; often 'Detective Book Club' on spine/jacket and a club-selection note.", "Blind-stamped dimple or absence of a true first-edition statement; jacket lacks an original publisher price." ], "notablePoints": [ "Crucial as a confusion-avoider: a DBC 3-in-1 reprints novels that first appeared from houses like Doubleday Crime Club, Morrow, Dodd Mead — the original publisher's separate hardcover is the first, not the club volume.", "Often mistaken online for firsts because they reproduce the original jacket art on the omnibus.", "No collectible 'first printing' status; value is nominal." ], "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/publishers/detective-book-club" }, { "slug": "dial-byr", "name": "Dial Books for Young Readers", "category": "childrens-ya", "region": "US", "era": "1924–present (children's imprint formalized 1961)", "idMethods": [ "Modern (Penguin/Dial era): full descending number line on copyright page; first printing reaches '1' (e.g. 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1)", "Often paired with 'First Edition' or 'First American Edition' statement", "Mid-20th century Dial Press parent: pre-mid-1960s matched title-page and copyright-page dates; late 1960s stated 'First Printing (Year)'" ], "notablePoints": [ "Dial BFYR is now a Penguin Young Readers (Penguin Random House) imprint; inherits Penguin number-line house style", "Famous titles: Lois Lowry, the 'Brian's Saga' Gary Paulsen, Eric Carle reissues, Bill Peet. Caldecott/Newbery contenders frequent", "Watch for Reading Rainbow / book-club tie-in editions of Dial picture books lacking price" ], "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/publishers/dial-byr" }, { "slug": "dial-press", "name": "Dial Press", "category": "us-trade", "region": "US", "era": "1924–present", "idMethods": [ "Pre-mid-1960s (classic Dial, incl. early Baldwin/Mailer firsts): first edition identified by the SAME DATE appearing on both the title page and the copyright page, with no later-printing statement. Early imprints may read 'Lincoln MacVeagh / The Dial Press.'", "Mid/late-1960s to ~1980: first printings stated 'First Printing (Year)' on the copyright page, with subsequent printings explicitly noted.", "Circa 1980s onward: a descending number line/number row; presence of '1' indicates first printing. This convention began under Doubleday-era ownership, BEFORE the Random House revival — it is not exclusively a modern Random House practice.", "Modern Random House-era Dial: follows standard Random House practice — typically 'First Edition' stated with a number line descending to 1; but verify against the era the copyright page reflects rather than assuming." ], "notablePoints": [ "Founded 1923 by Lincoln MacVeagh (first book imprint issued 1924) — the claim's 'Founded 1924' is off by a year; 1924 is the first publication, not the founding.", "Published James Baldwin, Norman Mailer, Thomas Berger, Elizabeth Bowen, Frank Yerby. Ownership churn: Dell (60% 1963, wholly owned 1969) -> Doubleday (1976) -> adult imprint dissolved 1985 -> revived (under Bantam/Doubleday/Dell, carried into Random House when BDD was sold) -> now Random House Publishing Group imprint within PRH. The claim's 'revived under Random House 2001' is imprecise: the revival lineage began under BDD, not Random House, and the specific 2001 date is not well-supported.", "Dial Books for Young Readers split off (children's division sold to E.P. Dutton in 1976) and is now a Penguin Random House children's imprint — a DIFFERENT line; do not conflate with the adult Dial Press. (Confirmed correct.)", "Because of the ownership churn the controlling convention depends on the printing's era — check the copyright page. (Confirmed correct.) The single most useful early-era test is the matching date on title page and copyright page, which the claimed methods omit entirely." ], "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/publishers/dial-press" }, { "slug": "dodd-mead", "name": "Dodd, Mead & Company", "category": "vintage-us", "region": "US", "era": "1870s-1980s", "idMethods": [ "Prior to 1976: firsts have NO additional printings listed on the copyright page (no number line, no later-printing notice).", "Late 1976 onward: a sequence of numbers on the copyright page with '1' present indicates the first printing." ], "notablePoints": [ "For pre-1976 titles the only reliable signal is the absence of any later-printing notice — there is no positive 'First Edition' statement to rely on.", "Long-running house (Agatha Christie's US publisher) — title-level points often matter more than the house rule." ], "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/publishers/dodd-mead" }, { "slug": "dodd-mead-red-badge", "name": "Dodd, Mead & Company (Red Badge Detective)", "category": "mystery-crime", "region": "US", "era": "1930s-1980s", "idMethods": [ "Dodd, Mead generally stated 'First Edition' on the copyright page for firsts; the statement is removed on later printings (standard mid-century practice).", "Red Badge Detective books carry the Red Badge device/colophon; first printing = 'First Edition' stated with no later-printing notice and a price-present jacket.", "Match jacket price and rear-panel ads to first-state points for collected authors." ], "notablePoints": [ "Agatha Christie's primary US hardcover publisher for much of her career — Dodd, Mead firsts are the US firsts (distinct from UK Collins Crime Club firsts).", "Book-club reprints (Detective Book Club, Dollar Mystery Guild) of Dodd, Mead titles are common look-alikes; the BCE lacks 'First Edition' and has club tells.", "For Christie and similar, the US Dodd, Mead first usually post-dates the UK Collins first — note 'first US edition,' not world first." ], "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/publishers/dodd-mead-red-badge" }, { "slug": "doubleday-imprint", "name": "Doubleday", "category": "us-trade", "region": "US", "era": "1897–present", "idMethods": [ "1897–c.1920s (Doubleday & McClure / Doubleday, Page): first editions have the SAME date on title page and copyright page with no other printings mentioned.", "Early 1920s–1927: began stating 'First Edition' on the copyright page (not always on books first published outside the US); by 1927 (Doubleday, Doran) used 'First Edition' consistently.", "Mid-1958–early 1959: numerical gutter code (1–52) on the last page of text indicating the WEEK of printing. Early 1959–1987: added a LETTER code before the week code indicating the YEAR.", "c.1990s–present: uses a descending number row; presence of 1 indicates first printing. Throughout: any mention of later printings means it is NOT a first." ], "notablePoints": [ "Name evolution: Doubleday & McClure (1897) → Doubleday, Page (c.1900) → Doubleday, Doran (1927) → Doubleday & Co. (1947) → part of Bantam Doubleday Dell → Random House/PRH (1998).", "The 1958–1987 gutter/colophon code (letter+number) is a famous, decodable Doubleday point — the letter gives the year, the number the week.", "Doubleday is notorious for book-club editions (it ran large book clubs): BCEs typically lack a price on the jacket, have a blind-stamp 'dot' or square on the lower-right rear board, and are smaller/lighter — a classic confusion with trade firsts.", "Nan A. Talese is the prestige literary imprint (Atwood, McEwan, Ondaatje) — follows modern Doubleday number-line convention." ], "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/publishers/doubleday-imprint" }, { "slug": "doubleday", "name": "Doubleday", "category": "us-trade", "region": "trade", "era": "", "idMethods": [ "Stated \"First Edition\" on the copyright page (no statement on later printings)", "Gutter codes (mid-1958 to mid-1987) as a dating cross-reference" ], "notablePoints": [ "The Literary Guild, Mystery Guild, and Doubleday Book Club run through this house; their club editions carry a five-digit code block on the jacket and a rear-board blind stamp — not the same as the trade first." ], "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/publishers/doubleday" }, { "slug": "doves-press", "name": "Doves Press", "category": "fine-private-press", "region": "UK", "era": "1900–1916", "idMethods": [ "Hand-press limited editions in the single proprietary 'Doves' type; austere typography with no illustration, occasional calligraphic initials by Edward Johnston (often hand-painted in red)", "Printed colophon with stated limitation; copies on paper plus a small number on VELLUM (distinct sub-state)", "The Doves bindery dove device / the press colophon authenticates; handmade paper", "No number line — colophon limitation and the Doves type identify" ], "notablePoints": [ "Founded 1900 by T. J. Cobden-Sanderson and Emery Walker (Hammersmith); celebrated for the Doves Bible (1903–05) — a monument of pure typography", "Cobden-Sanderson famously threw the Doves type punches and matrices into the Thames (1916–17) to keep it from Walker — so the type was never reused; this story underlies the press's mystique", "Vellum copies and the Doves Bible are the apex; paper copies are the standard state", "Distinguish from later Doves-type revivals (digital facsimiles) — not the original press" ], "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/publishers/doves-press" }, { "slug": "duke-university-press", "name": "Duke University Press", "category": "university-academic", "region": "US", "era": "1921–present", "idMethods": [ "Modern titles carry a number line on the copyright page; lowest number present = printing ('1' = first).", "First printings otherwise show only the copyright line; later printings/editions noted.", "Revised editions explicitly dated and numbered." ], "notablePoints": [ "Strong cultural-studies, queer-theory, and Latin American studies list; heavily reprinted theory titles keep the same copyright year — rely on the number line.", "Standard academic convention." ], "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/publishers/duke-university-press" }, { "slug": "dutton", "name": "Dutton", "category": "us-trade", "region": "US", "era": "1852–present", "idMethods": [ "Historic E.P. Dutton (founded 1852): first printings often identified by the absence of later-printing statements; many mid-century titles state 'First Edition' or 'First Printing'.", "Number line / 'W' codes and date codes appear on some 20th-century Dutton books.", "Modern Dutton (Penguin): states 'First Edition' with a descending number line ending in 1.", "Presence of 1 in the line plus the stated First Edition = first in the modern era." ], "notablePoints": [ "One of the oldest US houses (E.P. Dutton, est. 1852); diverse list including Winnie-the-Pooh US editions.", "Acquired by Penguin (Dutton/NAL) in the 1980s–90s; now a Penguin Publishing Group imprint within PRH.", "Pre-modern Dutton requires absence-of-reprint logic; the famous Pooh/Milne titles have specific bibliographic points beyond house convention.", "Plume (trade paperback) is largely a reprint line — usually NOT a first." ], "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/publishers/dutton" }, { "slug": "ep-dutton", "name": "E. P. Dutton & Company", "category": "vintage-us", "region": "US", "era": "1880s-1990s", "idMethods": [ "Pre-1929: same date on title page and copyright page, no additional printings listed.", "1929 onward: state 'First Published (year)' or 'First Edition' on the copyright page.", "1993 onward: 'First Printing (month, year)' plus a number sequence with '1' present." ], "notablePoints": [ "The matching-date rule covers the earliest period; the explicit statement covers the bulk of the 20th century.", "US publisher of A. A. Milne's Winnie-the-Pooh titles — those have famous title-specific points beyond the house rule." ], "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/publishers/ep-dutton" }, { "slug": "easton-press", "name": "Easton Press", "category": "fine-private-press", "region": "US", "era": "1975–present", "idMethods": [ "Most Easton Press volumes are leather-bound REPRINTS (not firsts) — full leather, gilt edges, moiré endpapers, satin ribbon marker, raised spine bands, and a hubbed gilt-stamped spine", "Their genuine first editions come via the 'Signed First Edition' / 'Signed First Edition Society' programs: a bound-in signature leaf signed by the author, plus statements identifying it as a first edition, typically on the title page and the signature page", "A Collector's Notes pamphlet often accompanies the volume; a numbered 'edition' COA or limitation may appear for special signed/limited runs", "No publisher number-line; identify state by the signature leaf and the series/limitation statement, not a copyright-page key" ], "notablePoints": [ "Easton Press reprints are NOT collectible firsts of the text — many sellers misrepresent them; only the Signed First Edition Society volumes (author-signed at point of publication) carry first-edition significance", "Distinguish from Franklin Library (its main historical competitor): Easton continues to operate; Franklin ceased", "Deluxe Limited Editions (smaller numbered runs) exist for some titles and carry a stated limitation", "Sealed-in-shrinkwrap, with the COA/Collector's Notes intact, is the desirable state" ], "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/publishers/easton-press" }, { "slug": "ecco", "name": "Ecco", "category": "us-trade", "region": "US", "era": "1971–present", "idMethods": [ "Independent Ecco Press era (1971–1999): typically stated 'First Edition' / 'First printing' and/or first printings identified by absence of later printings; many were trade paperbacks and poetry.", "HarperCollins-era Ecco (1999–present): states 'First Edition' on the copyright page WITH a descending number line ending in 1.", "Reliable modern test: 'First Edition' + line-to-1.", "Some literary reprints carry 'First Ecco edition' wording — distinguish first edition of the work from first Ecco printing." ], "notablePoints": [ "Founded 1971 by Daniel Halpern as an independent literary house (poetry, fiction, the famous Antaeus magazine and Neglected Books series).", "Acquired by HarperCollins in 1999; now a HarperCollins literary imprint (Cormac McCarthy paperbacks, Joyce Carol Oates, etc.).", "Era split is important: independent-era Ecco lacks the HC number line; modern Ecco follows HC convention.", "Distinct from the 'Ecco' children's or other unrelated lines — verify imprint on the title page." ], "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/publishers/ecco" }, { "slug": "ecco-press", "name": "Ecco Press", "category": "poetry-literary", "region": "US", "era": "1971–present (HarperCollins from 1999)", "idMethods": [ "Independent era (1971–1999): copyright page typically states 'First Edition' or 'First Printing'; number line may appear on later titles (descending, 1 = first).", "HarperCollins era (1999 onward): follows Harper convention — 'FIRST EDITION' stated AND a number line; on Harper imprints the presence of the '1' in the number line is the decisive point.", "First lacks later-printing notice in both eras." ], "notablePoints": [ "Founded 1971 by Daniel Halpern in New York; significant poetry list and the influential Ecco/Antaeus connection; acquired by HarperCollins in 1999 and now operates as a Harper imprint.", "Era caveat is crucial: a pre-1999 Ecco first is an independent-press book; post-1999 Ecco firsts follow HarperCollins identification rules (see harpercollins entry).", "Strong reprint/'Neglected Books of the Twentieth Century' series — those are 'first thus' editions, not first-ever printings." ], "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/publishers/ecco-press" }, { "slug": "europa-editions", "name": "Europa Editions", "category": "regional-specialty", "region": "US", "era": "2005–present", "idMethods": [ "Copyright page states 'First publication [year] by Europa Editions' / 'First Edition'; English-translation first printings note the translation copyright and first English-language publication", "Descending number line ending in 1 where present (modern standard)", "US-based (New York) English-language arm of Italy's Edizioni E/O, founded 2005; identification is conventional", "Distinguish 'first English-language edition' (the Europa printing) from the original-language first edition published abroad" ], "notablePoints": [ "For translated works (e.g., Elena Ferrante), the Europa Editions printing is the first English-language edition, NOT the world first — a key distinction for collectors who must decide which 'first' they want", "Ferrante's Neapolitan Novels first English printings are the notable collectible firsts in this catalog; verify via copyright-page first-publication statement and number line", "Uniform paperback-original format is standard; many titles have no hardcover first" ], "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/publishers/europa-editions" }, { "slug": "faber-and-faber", "name": "Faber & Faber", "category": "uk-commonwealth", "region": "UK", "era": "1929-present (Faber & Gwyer from 1925)", "idMethods": [ "First printings state \"First published in [Year]\" (often \"First published in mcmxxxx\") on the copyright/verso page, with no list of later impressions", "Prior to 1968 the year was set in ROMAN NUMERALS (e.g. 'First published in mcmliv'); from 1968 onward Arabic numerals were used — a key dating tell", "Since WWII the month was generally dropped from the statement (pre-war statements sometimes named the month)", "Later impressions add a 'Second impression / Reprinted [year]' line beneath the original statement; presence of such a line rules out a first printing", "In the modern era (later 20th c. onward) Faber adopted a descending number line ending in 1 (10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1); lowest digit = printing" ], "notablePoints": [ "Roman-to-Arabic numeral switch at 1968 is the single most useful Faber dating shortcut", "T.S. Eliot was a director; Faber poetry firsts (Eliot, Auden, Hughes, Larkin, Heaney, Plath) are heavily collected and dust jackets/price-clipping matter greatly", "Golding 'Lord of the Flies' (1954) firsts have specific points; the statement is in Roman numerals", "Book-club reprints and US co-editions are common confusions" ], "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/publishers/faber-and-faber" }, { "slug": "uk-book-club-tells", "name": "Faber-style note: book-club & confusions (cross-publisher)", "category": "uk-commonwealth", "region": "UK", "era": "1930s-1990s (peak UK book-club era)", "idMethods": [ "UK book-club editions typically OMIT the price from the dust-jacket flap and/or carry a small blind-stamped dot/dimple on the rear board (BCA, World Books) — these are NOT trade firsts even if the copyright page copies the first-edition statement", "Book-club copies often have cheaper paper, no price, a printed jacket credit line ('This edition... by arrangement with...'), and sometimes a stated 'Book Club edition'", "True UK trade first = priced dust jacket (un-clipped), 'First published [year]' statement, no club arrangement line, no blind dimple" ], "notablePoints": [ "The single most common UK first-edition error: a book-club reprint that copies the original 'First published' line verbatim. The dust-jacket price (or its absence) and the blind dot are the decisive tells", "Price-clipped jackets create ambiguity — examine paper, boards and the arrangement credit", "This applies across Cape, Heinemann, Collins, Hodder, Michael Joseph etc." ], "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/publishers/uk-book-club-tells" }, { "slug": "fantasy-press", "name": "Fantasy Press", "category": "science-fiction-fantasy", "region": "US", "era": "1946–1961", "idMethods": [ "Trade first edition: copyright page typically without later-printing notation; check against the known single print run (~3,000 copies)", "Signed/limited state is identified by a tipped-in or bound-in 'limitation leaf' after the title page, stating the limitation number and signed by the author (anywhere from ~250 to 500 numbered/signed copies per title)", "Trade copies lack the limitation leaf; presence of the numbered, author-signed leaf marks the limited issue" ], "notablePoints": [ "Founded 1946 by Lloyd Arthur Eshbach in Reading, PA; published E. E. 'Doc' Smith's Lensman/Skylark, Heinlein, Williamson, van Vogt in hardcover", "Quality bindings, good paper, and interior illustrations are house hallmarks", "Signed limited issues (esp. Heinlein) command multiples of the trade price", "Polaris Press was a short-lived associated imprint" ], "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/publishers/fantasy-press" }, { "slug": "fsg", "name": "Farrar, Straus and Giroux", "category": "us-trade", "region": "trade", "era": "", "idMethods": [ "“First printed [Year]” / “First published [Year]” statement", "No number line — the statement is the sole identifier" ], "notablePoints": [ "Because there is no number line, the copyright-page wording is the sole textual identifier — read it carefully." ], "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/publishers/fsg" }, { "slug": "fsg-byr", "name": "Farrar, Straus and Giroux Books for Young Readers (FSG BYR)", "category": "childrens-ya", "region": "US", "era": "1946–present", "idMethods": [ "FSG house convention applies: descending number line on copyright page; first printing ends in 1 (e.g. 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1)", "FSG historically did NOT state 'First Edition' — relied on the number line; a first printing is identified by the line reaching 1 with no later-printing date added", "Some titles add 'First edition, (Year)' on copyright page in modern era; number line still controls" ], "notablePoints": [ "FSG BYR is prestige literary children's/YA: Madeleine L'Engle's A Wrinkle in Time (FSG, 1962 — Newbery), William Steig (Sylvester and the Magic Pebble — Caldecott; Shrek!), Roald Dahl US, Uri Shulevitz", "Because FSG often omitted the words 'First Edition', collectors MUST read the number line — absence of 'First Edition' wording is normal and not disqualifying", "Now part of Macmillan Children's Publishing Group" ], "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/publishers/fsg-byr" }, { "slug": "fawcett-gold-medal", "name": "Fawcett Gold Medal", "category": "mystery-crime", "region": "US", "era": "1950-1970s", "idMethods": [ "Gold Medal pioneered the PAPERBACK ORIGINAL — so the Gold Medal paperback is itself the first edition (no prior hardcover) for most of its crime/noir list. Identification centers on first-PRINTING points, not first-edition statements.", "First printing is identified by the Gold Medal serial number and the copyright-page printing notice: a true first usually has NO 'Second printing'/'Third printing' line; later printings explicitly state the printing and often a later printing date.", "Gold Medal numbering began at 101 (e.g., 'The Persian Cat' = 103). The serial number and cover price help fix the printing/era; reissues were given new numbers and/or new cover prices.", "Watch the copyright page for 'First printing, [month year]' on early titles; a printing-history block listing multiple printings means it is a later issue." ], "notablePoints": [ "Founded 1950 by Fawcett; defined mid-century noir (John D. MacDonald, Charles Williams, Day Keene, Gil Brewer). The paperback original = the first edition is the single most important concept here.", "Fawcett Crest is the REPRINT imprint (hardcover reprints in paperback) — a Crest edition is not a Gold Medal first.", "Reissues reused titles with new serial numbers and cover art; only the first printing with the original number/price and no printing-history block is the first.", "Cover-price changes (25c → 35c → 50c) are a quick era/printing tell." ], "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/publishers/fawcett-gold-medal" }, { "slug": "folio-society", "name": "Folio Society", "category": "fine-private-press", "region": "UK", "era": "1947–present", "idMethods": [ "Most Folio Society books are illustrated REPRINTS (not first editions of the text) issued in a slipcase, NOT individually numbered — they are trade fine editions, not limited", "Identify the FIRST Folio printing by the dated 'Printed in...' / 'First published... by The Folio Society' statement and absence of a 'reprinted' line; later Folio reprints add reprint dates and may change the binding cloth", "The genuinely collectible Folio items are the explicitly NUMBERED LIMITED EDITIONS (e.g., the Letter Press Shakespeare, deluxe facsimiles) — these have a printed limitation leaf and number, often with a certificate", "Original slipcase (and any tissue/extra) is part of the desirable state; no commercial number line" ], "notablePoints": [ "Founded 1947 by Charles Ede (London); a subscription society issuing handsomely illustrated editions of established texts — generally NOT rare-book 'firsts'", "DO NOT treat an ordinary Folio Society volume as a first edition of the work — it is a later illustrated reprint; only the stated numbered Limited Editions carry limitation value", "Early Folio Society titles (late 1940s–50s) and out-of-print sold-out limited editions command premiums", "Slipcase presence and edition (first Folio printing vs. later reprint, and standard vs. numbered limited) are the key distinctions" ], "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/publishers/folio-society" }, { "slug": "franklin-library", "name": "Franklin Library", "category": "fine-private-press", "region": "US", "era": "1973–c.2000", "idMethods": [ "Two distinct categories: (1) 'Signed First Edition' series — true first printings with a SEPARATELY BOUND-IN leaf bearing a GENUINE author autograph; (2) classics reprints where the introduction is signed but that signature is FACSIMILE (reprinted), not original", "Genuine signed firsts: author signature stands alone on its own conjugate/inserted leaf; facsimile signatures appear at the END of a printed introduction", "Binding tells: full genuine leather throughout the run; imitation leather and quarter-bound genuine leather only in the 1970s–80s; full-leather volumes carry a satin ribbon page-marker bound in", "Gilt page edges, moiré or silk endpapers, gilt spine decoration; no copyright-page number line — identify by the signature leaf type and series statement" ], "notablePoints": [ "Franklin produced NO reprints of its own titles in the rare sense — but most volumes are reprints of classic TEXTS, so they are not collectible firsts of the work; the Signed First Edition Society volumes ARE genuine signed firsts (e.g., signed by living authors at publication)", "Key confusion: facsimile 'signed' introduction vs. a genuinely signed bound-in leaf — only the latter is an authentic autograph", "Quarter-bound and imitation-leather volumes are less valued than full genuine leather", "Franklin Library (Franklin Mint) ceased operations c.2000; values track the author and signature authenticity" ], "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/publishers/franklin-library" }, { "slug": "putnam", "name": "G. P. Putnam's Sons", "category": "us-trade", "region": "trade", "era": "", "idMethods": [ "“First Impression” plus a number line", "Statement removed on later printings" ], "notablePoints": [ "Note the unusual wording — Putnam uses “First Impression” rather than “First Edition.”" ], "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/publishers/putnam" }, { "slug": "gallery-books", "name": "Gallery Books", "category": "us-trade", "region": "US", "era": "2009 (as Gallery)–present; Pocket 1939–present", "idMethods": [ "States 'First Gallery Books hardcover edition (Year)' or 'First Edition' on the copyright page WITH a descending number line ending in 1.", "Pocket Books legacy mass-markets: printing-history line; true first lists only the first printing.", "S&S-family convention: explicit 'First [Imprint] edition' statement plus line-to-1.", "Saga Press (SF/fantasy) uses the same stated-edition + number line approach." ], "notablePoints": [ "Gallery Books launched 2009 as the renamed/expanded Pocket Books trade hardcover program within Simon & Schuster.", "Pocket Books (founded 1939) was the first major US mass-market paperback house — many genre/franchise firsts are Pocket paperbacks.", "Threshold Editions is the conservative-politics S&S imprint; Saga Press is the SF/fantasy line — both follow S&S convention.", "Franchise tie-ins (Star Trek etc.) are collected differently; rely on the printing line." ], "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/publishers/gallery-books" }, { "slug": "gehenna-press", "name": "Gehenna Press", "category": "fine-private-press", "region": "US", "era": "1942–2000 (Baskin d. 2000; some posthumous completion)", "idMethods": [ "Letterpress limited editions, most with a printed colophon stating a small limitation (often well under 300, some only a few dozen)", "Colophon often signed by Leonard Baskin (and/or collaborating poet, e.g., Ted Hughes, Anthony Hecht); original wood engravings/etchings by Baskin are integral", "Hand-numbered limitation; deluxe sub-states may add an extra signed print suite or special binding", "No number line — identify by the signed/numbered colophon and Baskin's engraved device" ], "notablePoints": [ "Founded 1942 by Leonard Baskin (Northampton, MA; named for the biblical valley of Gehenna)", "Celebrated collaborations with Ted Hughes (e.g., 'Crow' related work, 'A Primer of Birds'), Anthony Hecht ('The Seven Deadly Sins')", "Books are art objects; Baskin's wood engravings and the press device authenticate", "Very small editions make every numbered copy scarce; condition of the prints matters" ], "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/publishers/gehenna-press" }, { "slug": "allen-and-unwin", "name": "George Allen & Unwin", "category": "uk-commonwealth", "region": "UK", "era": "1914-1990 (UK independent); Australian arm continues", "idMethods": [ "First editions state \"First published [Year]\" or \"First published in [Year]\" on the copyright page (frequently with the printer named), later printings noted with added impression lines", "First printing = the 'First published' statement with NO subsequent-impression notation", "Early/mid-20th-c. titles list later printings as 'Second impression [year]' etc. beneath the original line", "Confirm clean copyright page free of reprint lines" ], "notablePoints": [ "Published J.R.R. Tolkien — 'The Hobbit' (1937) and 'The Lord of the Rings' (1954-55) true firsts have famously intricate points: 'Hobbit' first issue with green cloth & dustjacket, and the LotR Fellowship 'first impression' with the corrected/uncorrected text and the well-known signature-line points", "Also Bertrand Russell, Arthur Waley translations", "Allen & Unwin Australia became an independent Commonwealth house — distinguish from the UK parent" ], "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/publishers/allen-and-unwin" }, { "slug": "gibbs-smith", "name": "Gibbs Smith", "category": "regional-specialty", "region": "US", "era": "1969–present", "idMethods": [ "Number line on copyright page indicating printing; first printing shows the full line ending in 1", "'First Edition' statement present on many trade titles; format follows modern American convention", "Layton, Utah publisher founded 1969 (as Peregrine Smith) by Gibbs M. Smith; Western Americana, architecture/design, cookbooks, humor", "Printing year and number line read together; revised editions stated explicitly" ], "notablePoints": [ "Earlier output under the 'Peregrine Smith' / 'Gibbs M. Smith, Inc., Peregrine Smith Books' imprint — same conventional identification; the imprint name on the title page dates the era", "Strong in regional Western art/architecture monographs that get reprinted; later printings drop the '1'", "No idiosyncratic house code" ], "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/publishers/gibbs-smith" }, { "slug": "gnome-press", "name": "Gnome Press", "category": "science-fiction-fantasy", "region": "US", "era": "1948–1962", "idMethods": [ "First editions generally STATE 'First Edition' on the copyright page — but this alone is NOT conclusive: in offset reprints Gnome sometimes left a prior publisher's 'First Edition' statement standing", "Confirm via binding measurements/bulk and priority dust-jacket points (rear-panel ad titles, jacket art state) documented title-by-title in the Gnome bibliography", "Beware copies bound from Gnome sheets but carrying a 'Doubleday Science Fiction' designation at the spine base — these are late reissues, NOT true Gnome firsts regardless of the copyright statement" ], "notablePoints": [ "Founded 1948 by Martin Greenberg and David Kyle; published Asimov's 'Foundation' trilogy, Robert E. Howard's Conan in hardcover, and Clarke", "Famously undercapitalized — variant bindings/jackets and sheet reissues make point-by-point checking essential", "'Foundation' (1951) priority points: cloth binding of specified bulk; priority jacket rear panel advertises only three titles (Foundation; Tomorrow and Tomorrow / The Fairy Chessmen; The Sword of Conan)", "Definitive reference: 'Gnome Press: The Complete History and Bibliography'" ], "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/publishers/gnome-press" }, { "slug": "golden-cockerel-press", "name": "Golden Cockerel Press", "category": "fine-private-press", "region": "UK", "era": "1920–1961", "idMethods": [ "Letterpress limited editions with a printed colophon stating the limitation; many titles in tiered states — e.g., a numbered standard edition plus a smaller SPECIAL/deluxe edition (extra plates, full-morocco binding, sometimes signed)", "Original wood engravings by major artists (Eric Gill, Robert Gibbings, John Buckland Wright, Eric Ravilious, etc.) integral to the book; the cockerel device authenticates", "Deluxe/special copies are at a lower number range and stated separately in the colophon", "No number line — colophon limitation and engraver/device identify" ], "notablePoints": [ "Founded 1920 by Harold Taylor; revived under Robert Gibbings (1924–33), then Christopher Sandford — its golden age for wood-engraved illustration", "Landmark: 'The Four Gospels' (1931) designed and engraved by ERIC GILL — one of the great illustrated press books; Gill also engraved 'The Canterbury Tales'", "Tiered states (ordinary numbered vs. deluxe full-morocco special) are the key collation point", "Standard reference: 'The Golden Cockerel Press: A Bibliography' (Cockerel checklists); beware that the press changed hands several times" ], "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/publishers/golden-cockerel-press" }, { "slug": "golden-gryphon-press", "name": "Golden Gryphon Press", "category": "science-fiction-fantasy", "region": "US", "era": "1997–2010s", "idMethods": [ "Trade first edition: copyright-page first-printing indication (number line with '1' / no later printings)", "Signed limited states identified by a tipped-in or bound signature/limitation page", "Most output is single-print-run hardcover, so absence of later-printing notation typically confirms the first" ], "notablePoints": [ "Founded 1997 by Jim Turner (formerly of Arkham House) and continued by his brother Gary Turner; specialized in single-author short-story collections", "Small print runs; quality production reminiscent of Arkham House lineage" ], "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/publishers/golden-gryphon-press" }, { "slug": "grabhorn-press", "name": "Grabhorn Press", "category": "fine-private-press", "region": "US", "era": "1919–1965 (Grabhorn-Hoyem 1966–1973)", "idMethods": [ "Fine letterpress limited editions (San Francisco); printed colophon with stated limitation, often signed by the Grabhorns or the artist", "Distinctive bold display typography, decorated papers, and the Grabhorn device authenticate; handmade papers", "Deluxe sub-states at lower numbers (special binding/extra plates) stated in the colophon", "No number line — colophon limitation and Grabhorn imprint/device identify" ], "notablePoints": [ "Founded 1919 (Indiana, moved to San Francisco 1920) by brothers Edwin and Robert Grabhorn; the preeminent Western American fine press", "Landmark: the Grabhorn 'Leaves of Grass' (Whitman, 1930, with Valenti Angelo illustrations) — a high point of American fine printing", "Lineage continues: Grabhorn-Hoyem (1966–73) then Andrew Hoyem's Arion Press — useful for distinguishing successor imprints", "Standard reference: 'The Grabhorn Press: A Bibliography' (the two-volume bibliographies, 1940 & 1957)" ], "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/publishers/grabhorn-press" }, { "slug": "grand-central-publishing", "name": "Grand Central Publishing", "category": "us-trade", "region": "US", "era": "1970s (as Warner)–present", "idMethods": [ "Modern: states 'First Edition' on the copyright page AND uses a descending number line; first printing retains the lowest number (1 or, for Warner-era, sometimes 10).", "Warner Books-era (pre-2007): 'First Printing: (Month Year)' on the copyright page plus a number line; true first lists only the first printing.", "Hachette-family convention: 'First Edition' / 'First Printing' statement is the reliable signal alongside the line.", "Absence of later printings on the copyright page confirms a first." ], "notablePoints": [ "Was Warner Books until 2007, when Hachette acquired Time Warner Book Group and renamed it Grand Central Publishing.", "Now part of Hachette Book Group USA.", "Mulholland Books is the crime/thriller imprint (launched 2011) — same Hachette convention.", "Twelve is the prestige one-book-a-month imprint; Forever is the romance line." ], "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/publishers/grand-central-publishing" }, { "slug": "graywolf-press", "name": "Graywolf Press", "category": "poetry-literary", "region": "US", "era": "1974–present", "idMethods": [ "Modern convention: copyright page states 'First Edition' and carries a descending number line (10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1); the lowest number present indicates the printing — a first shows '1'.", "First printing has no additional printing/date notice beyond the stated first.", "Earliest Graywolf (late 1970s Port Townsend era) included letterpress/limited chapbooks with rear colophons — identified by limitation statement rather than a number line." ], "notablePoints": [ "Founded 1974 by Scott Walker (with Kathleen Foster) in Port Townsend, WA — literally in space provided by Copper Canyon Press; relocated to Saint Paul, Minnesota (1984).", "Now a major nonprofit literary press (distributed via Macmillan/FSG): poetry, fiction, essays — Tracy K. Smith, Claudia Rankine's Citizen, Maggie Nelson's The Argonauts.", "Citizen (2014) went through many printings rapidly — number line is the practical way to separate first from later printings.", "Because of Macmillan distribution, later printings follow standard trade number-line conventions." ], "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/publishers/graywolf-press" }, { "slug": "gregynog-press", "name": "Gregynog Press", "category": "fine-private-press", "region": "UK (Wales)", "era": "1923–1940 (original); 1974–present (revived)", "idMethods": [ "Hand-press letterpress limited editions printed at Gregynog Hall, Wales; printed colophon with stated limitation (usually small)", "A subset of each edition bound in elaborate SPECIAL bindings by the Gregynog bindery (George Fisher) — these specially-bound copies are a distinct, far more valuable sub-state, identified in the colophon and by the binding", "Original wood engravings (Blair Hughes-Stanton, Agnes Miller Parker, etc.); press device authenticates", "No number line — colophon limitation plus binding state (ordinary vs. special binding) identify" ], "notablePoints": [ "Founded 1923 (active to 1940) by the Davies sisters; revived 1974 as 'Gwasg Gregynog' — distinguish original press from the modern Welsh-language revival", "Renowned for its special bindings — the small number of specially-bound copies (often a dozen or fewer per title) are the prizes; the ordinary cloth/quarter-leather copies are the standard state", "Wood-engraved work by Hughes-Stanton and Agnes Miller Parker is a hallmark", "Standard reference: Dorothy A. Harrop, 'A History of the Gregynog Press'" ], "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/publishers/gregynog-press" }, { "slug": "grove-atlantic", "name": "Grove Press / Grove Atlantic", "category": "us-trade", "region": "trade", "era": "", "idMethods": [ "Stated on the copyright page", "Dust-jacket rear-panel letter code on later printings (pre-1993)", "Number line (1993–present)" ], "notablePoints": [ "The dust-jacket rear-panel letter code is the Grove-specific tell for later printings before 1993." ], "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/publishers/grove-atlantic" }, { "slug": "hachette-books", "name": "Hachette Books", "category": "us-trade", "region": "US", "era": "1991 (as Hyperion)–present", "idMethods": [ "States 'First Edition' on the copyright page with a descending number line ending in 1.", "Hyperion-era (Disney-owned, pre-2013): used 'First Edition' + number line; sometimes 'First U.S. Edition' for imports.", "Hachette-family standard: stated edition plus line-to-1; reprints drop the statement and/or the 1.", "Check for 'First Edition' AND the 1 together." ], "notablePoints": [ "The trade imprint was Hyperion (founded 1991 by Disney); Hachette acquired most of Hyperion's adult list in 2013 and renamed it Hachette Books.", "Part of Hachette Book Group USA (the US arm of French parent Hachette Livre / Lagardère).", "Disney-era Hyperion firsts carry Hyperion imprint on title page — still identified by 'First Edition' + line-to-1.", "Sibling imprints Basic Books and PublicAffairs (Perseus, acquired 2016) follow the same Hachette convention." ], "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/publishers/hachette-books" }, { "slug": "hamish-hamilton", "name": "Hamish Hamilton", "category": "uk-commonwealth", "region": "UK", "era": "1931-present", "idMethods": [ "First editions state \"First published in Great Britain [Year]\" or \"First published [Year]\" on the copyright page; later printings noted", "First printing = statement present with no list of later impressions", "Under Penguin ownership (modern era) descending number lines ending in 1 appear; lowest digit = printing", "Absence of reprint lines is the core first-printing confirmation" ], "notablePoints": [ "Quality literary list: J.D. Salinger (UK), Raymond Chandler (UK), Nancy Mitford, Truman Capote (UK), Georges Simenon", "Many titles were UK issues of American books — watch for US true-first precedence vs UK first", "Now an imprint within Penguin" ], "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/publishers/hamish-hamilton" }, { "slug": "harcourt-brace", "name": "Harcourt, Brace & Co.", "category": "vintage-us", "region": "US", "era": "1919-1990s", "idMethods": [ "1919-1921 (Harcourt, Brace & Howe): number '1' on copyright page = first printing, '2' = second, etc.", "1921-1931: no statement on first printings; the first-edition notice (when later adopted) was simply absent, so rely on no later-printing notice.", "c.1931 onward: stated 'First Edition' or 'First American Edition' on copyright page; the statement was removed on subsequent printings.", "Occasionally through the 1940s used a '1' to denote first printing.", "1960-1970 (Harcourt, Brace & World): continued 'First Edition' / 'First American Edition'.", "1973-1983 (HBJ): used a letter code 'BCDE...' (no leading A) plus 'First Edition'.", "From ~1983: letter row 'ABCDE' — presence of leading 'A' = first printing; 'BCDE' = second, etc." ], "notablePoints": [ "The leading 'A' in the letter row only signals a first AFTER ~1983; the 1973-1983 books that read 'First Edition / BCDE' are also firsts despite lacking the A — a common point of confusion.", "Reynal & Hitchcock and Coward-McCann were absorbed into Harcourt (1948) — older torch-colophon books may carry over.", "Because the first-edition statement was simply removed on reprints, a copy with no statement at all and no later-printing notice can still be a true first in the 1921-1931 window." ], "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/publishers/harcourt-brace" }, { "slug": "hard-case-crime", "name": "Hard Case Crime", "category": "mystery-crime", "region": "US", "era": "2004-present", "idMethods": [ "Mass-market and trade paperback originals with pulp-style painted covers; copyright page carries a printing statement and/or number line. First printing shows 'First Hard Case Crime edition' (or 'First edition') and a number line ending in '1'.", "Each title has a series number (the 'HCC-0xx' designation) — useful for series collecting but the printing is set by the copyright-page line.", "Note the distributor era: early titles (2004-2010) were distributed via Dorchester/Leisure; the relaunch (2011+) is under Titan Books — copyright-page imprint wording differs by era." ], "notablePoints": [ "Founded 2004 by Charles Ardai and Max Phillips; mixes reprints of vintage noir with new originals (Lawrence Block, Stephen King's 'The Colorado Kid' and 'Joyland', Donald Westlake's posthumous 'Memory').", "Stephen King's 'The Colorado Kid' (HCC-013, 2005) first printing is a key — confirm first-printing line; widely reprinted.", "Some titles also have signed/limited hardcover states (e.g., via PS Publishing or special editions) — those are separate, not the paperback first.", "Because the line is mostly paperback originals, the paperback IS the first edition; there is no earlier hardcover to chase for new works." ], "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/publishers/hard-case-crime" }, { "slug": "harper-brothers", "name": "Harper & Brothers", "category": "vintage-us", "region": "US", "era": "1912-1962 (code 1912-1949)", "idMethods": [ "1912-1949: month/year letter code on copyright page. Month: A=Jan, B=Feb, C=Mar, D=Apr, E=May, F=Jun, G=Jul, H=Aug, I=Sep, K=Oct, L=Nov, M=Dec (J skipped).", "Year code (J skipped): M=1912, N=1913 ... Z=1925, then A=1926, B=1927 ... Z=1950 (cycles).", "Code reads as two letters (month-year), e.g. 'K-Z' = October 1925.", "For firsts, the year letter code should match (or precede) the year on the title page; a code LATER than the title-page year indicates a reprint.", "From 1922: also began printing 'First Edition' on the copyright page in addition to the code.", "Letter code discontinued after 1949; later Harper & Row used standard statements/number lines." ], "notablePoints": [ "The letter code is the defining Harper point — memorize that J is skipped in BOTH month and year sequences.", "Between 1912-1922 there is usually no 'First Edition' words — you MUST decode the letter code against the title-page date.", "A matching code confirms first printing; mismatched (later) code on otherwise-identical book = book-club or later printing.", "Becomes Harper & Row in 1962 after merger with Row, Peterson; the vintage code applies only to the Harper & Brothers era." ], "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/publishers/harper-brothers" }, { "slug": "harper-perennial", "name": "Harper Perennial", "category": "us-trade", "region": "US", "era": "1980s–present", "idMethods": [ "States 'First [Harper] Perennial edition (Year)' on the copyright page, with a descending number line ending in 1 for that printing.", "Because it is predominantly a trade-paperback REPRINT line, the 'first Perennial edition' is usually NOT the first edition of the work.", "To find the true first, trace back to the original Harper / Harper & Row / HarperCollins hardcover.", "Line ending in 1 + 'First Perennial edition' = first of that paperback printing only." ], "notablePoints": [ "Harper Perennial is HarperCollins's flagship trade-paperback imprint (descended from Perennial Library).", "Key confusion point: collectors must NOT treat a 'First Harper Perennial edition' as a true first edition — it is almost always a later trade-paper reissue.", "Some Harper Perennial titles ARE paperback originals (e.g. certain story collections, P.S. editions) — those can be firsts.", "Part of HarperCollins." ], "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/publishers/harper-perennial" }, { "slug": "harpercollins", "name": "HarperCollins", "category": "us-trade", "region": "trade", "era": "", "idMethods": [ "Stated \"First Edition\" (1922–present)", "Modern titles add a number line", "Letter date-codes (Harper & Brothers, 1912+)" ], "notablePoints": [ "Documented to occasionally leave “First Edition” on later printings; always cross-check the number line." ], "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/publishers/harpercollins" }, { "slug": "harpercollins-childrens", "name": "HarperCollins Children's Books (formerly Harper & Row Junior Books / Harper & Brothers)", "category": "childrens-ya", "region": "US", "era": "1817–present (date-code era 1912–1949; stated-First-Edition + number-line era 1949–present)", "idMethods": [ "Modern (post-1990 HarperCollins, and Harper & Row from c.1975): stated 'First Edition' on copyright page PLUS a full descending number line ending in 1 (e.g. 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1)", "CRITICAL QUIRK: Harper repeatedly FAILED to remove the 'First Edition' statement from later printings — the NUMBER LINE is the authoritative signal, not the words. A book stating 'First Edition' but with a number line that does not reach 1 is a LATER printing", "1922–1949 (Harper & Brothers): two-letter date code on copyright page — first letter = month (A=Jan ... excluding J; K=Oct, L=Nov, M=Dec), second letter = year (M=1922-cycle). 'First Edition' also stated from 1922 but code is the precise tell", "Greenwillow (founded 1974 by Susan Hirschman): follows Harper house style — stated 'First Edition' + number line to 1" ], "notablePoints": [ "Home of the most-collected picture books: Maurice Sendak (Where the Wild Things Are, Harper & Row 1963), Shel Silverstein, Margaret Wise Brown (Goodnight Moon), Crockett Johnson, Garth Williams — verify via number line because 'First Edition' carry-over is rampant", "Harper & Brothers → Harper & Row in 1962 → HarperCollins in 1990; ID conventions carried through with the same 'forgot to delete First Edition' habit", "Book-club editions (Weekly Reader, Junior Literary Guild) of Harper picture books are common: smaller trim, cheaper paper, no price on jacket flap, often a blind stamp on lower-right rear board" ], "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/publishers/harpercollins-childrens" }, { "slug": "harvard-university-press", "name": "Harvard University Press", "category": "university-academic", "region": "US", "era": "1913–present (title-page-year practice strongest mid-20th c.; number lines common from the 1970s–80s onward)", "idMethods": [ "Classic Harvard tell: the YEAR OF PUBLICATION is printed on the TITLE PAGE of a first edition; on later printings the year is removed from the title page and a printing/reprint notice is added to the copyright page (verso). Absence of a copyright-page reprint notice plus the year on the title page = first printing.", "Modern HUP (and Belknap) books carry a descending number line on the copyright page; lowest digit present indicates the printing (a '1' = first printing).", "Copyright page states 'First printing' on many recent titles, or lists 'Second printing,' 'Third printing,' etc. for subsequent runs; a copyright year matching the title-page year with no later-printing line supports a first." ], "notablePoints": [ "The title-page-year convention is the single most reliable Harvard point and is documented in ILAB's by-publisher guide — check that the title-page year was NOT stripped.", "Belknap Press is HUP's flagship imprint (e.g., Rawls, A Theory of Justice, 1971) and follows the same copyright-page conventions.", "Loeb Classical Library volumes are heavily reprinted/revised; rely on the copyright-page printing history and 'Revised'/'Reprinted with corrections' notes rather than assuming first state.", "Book-club editions are rare for HUP scholarly titles; the bigger confusion is later printings that retain the same copyright year — check the number line and title-page year, not just the copyright date." ], "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/publishers/harvard-university-press" }, { "slug": "henry-holt", "name": "Henry Holt & Company", "category": "vintage-us", "region": "US", "era": "1866-1990s", "idMethods": [ "Pre-1945: identified by the LACK of a later-printing statement on the copyright page.", "1945 onward: usually placed a first-edition statement on the copyright page of US-produced books (no statement on books produced outside the US).", "After 1985: first-edition statement PLUS a number row (presence of '1' = first)." ], "notablePoints": [ "The 'no statement on non-US-produced books' caveat means an imported/co-produced title may be a first despite lacking the statement.", "Merged into Holt, Rinehart & Winston in 1960; reverted to Henry Holt branding after 1985 — convention shifts at those boundaries.", "Robert Frost's longtime US publisher; individual Frost titles have their own points." ], "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/publishers/henry-holt" }, { "slug": "henry-holt-and-company", "name": "Henry Holt and Company", "category": "us-trade", "region": "US", "era": "1866–present", "idMethods": [ "Pre-1945: first editions identified chiefly by the ABSENCE of any later-printing statement on the copyright page.", "1945–c.1985: usually placed a 'First Edition' statement on the copyright page of US-produced books (no statement on books produced outside the US).", "c.1976/1985 onward: 'First Edition' statement PLUS a descending number line ending in 1 — the modern reliable test.", "Imports/co-productions may read 'First American Edition' and lack the line." ], "notablePoints": [ "Founded 1866 (Henry Holt); long, complex history — was part of Holt, Rinehart and Winston for decades, then re-emerged as Henry Holt under Holtzbrinck/Macmillan.", "Now part of Macmillan. Era matters: a mid-century Holt first relies on absence-of-reprint logic, NOT a number line.", "Metropolitan Books and Times Books are prestige imprints under Holt — same convention.", "No statement on UK-produced sheets is a common confusion — check where the book was manufactured." ], "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/publishers/henry-holt-and-company" }, { "slug": "heritage-press", "name": "Heritage Press", "category": "fine-private-press", "region": "US", "era": "1935–c.1980s", "idMethods": [ "NO limitation page and NO signed colophon — this absence distinguishes Heritage from its parent LEC (the books otherwise often share the same plates/illustrations)", "Original issue accompanied by the 'Sandglass' — a 4-page (sometimes folded) pamphlet describing the book and illustrator; the Sandglass code/number helps date the printing", "Sandglass numbering and the publisher's address/colophon device indicate New York (early) vs. later Connecticut/Norwalk printings; earlier NY issues are generally the desirable first Heritage state", "Slipcase usually present; check Sandglass for printing identification rather than a copyright-page number line" ], "notablePoints": [ "Heritage is a reprint/trade arm of LEC — not 'firsts' in the rare-book sense, but collectors distinguish first Heritage issue (New York) from later reprints via the Sandglass and materials", "Many copies now lack the Sandglass (it was loose); its presence materially affects collector value", "Common confusion: buyers list Heritage copies as 'LEC' — only the signed numbered colophon makes it LEC", "Connecticut-era reissues use cheaper cloth/paper than early NY printings" ], "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/publishers/heritage-press" }, { "slug": "hodder-and-stoughton", "name": "Hodder & Stoughton", "category": "uk-commonwealth", "region": "UK", "era": "1868-present", "idMethods": [ "Pre-1940s: no consistent practice — first/later printing identification is unreliable and requires jacket/ad/binding/bibliographic analysis", "1940s onward: may state \"First Printed [Year]\" on firsts and note subsequent printings (transitional, not universal)", "By 1976: consistent \"First published in [Year]\" on the copyright page of firsts, with later printings/impressions explicitly noted", "Modern era (number line): later Hodder/Sceptre titles carry a printer's-key number line (lowest digit = printing; '1' present = first); number lines are a general post-~1970 trade practice — the exact year Hodder adopted them is not documented, so do not assert a precise 'mid-1990s' start date", "First printing = era-appropriate statement present AND no later-impression/printing notation; for pre-1940s books rely on points/bibliography, not the copyright page" ], "notablePoints": [ "Large commercial house; John Buchan's Richard Hannay sequels were Hodder firsts (Greenmantle 1916, Mr Standfast 1919) — but his most famous title, 'The Thirty-Nine Steps' (1915), was FIRST published by William Blackwood & Sons, NOT Hodder & Stoughton; do not cite it as a Hodder first", "Pre-war inconsistency makes early Hodder firsts genuinely difficult — beware confident copyright-page claims; identification often needs binding/jacket/ad and bibliographic points", "Later-printing dust jackets can sometimes be flagged by a small roman-numeral code on the rear panel (e.g. 'ii' = second printing jacket)", "Sceptre (founded 1986) is the modern literary imprint; many Booker-era authors (Keneally, David Mitchell, Fay Weldon)" ], "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/publishers/hodder-and-stoughton" }, { "slug": "holiday-house", "name": "Holiday House", "category": "childrens-ya", "region": "US", "era": "1935–present", "idMethods": [ "Modern: 'FIRST EDITION' stated on copyright page, typically accompanied by a descending number line ending in 1", "Number line is the controlling signal when both are present; first printing requires '1'", "Older mid-century titles: stated 'First Edition' / 'First printing' with no number line" ], "notablePoints": [ "Independent children's-only publisher founded 1935 (one of the oldest US children's specialists)", "Home of many Caldecott/Newbery honorees; Neal Porter Books (a Holiday House imprint) carries prestige picture books", "Generally clean, consistent 'FIRST EDITION'-plus-number-line conventions — fewer carry-over errors than Harper" ], "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/publishers/holiday-house" }, { "slug": "houghton-mifflin", "name": "Houghton Mifflin", "category": "us-trade", "region": "trade", "era": "", "idMethods": [ "“First Printing” statement (pre-1970s)", "Number line (1970s–present)" ], "notablePoints": [ "One of the more straightforward American houses to authenticate." ], "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/publishers/houghton-mifflin" }, { "slug": "unknown-publisher", "name": "I'm not sure / publisher not listed", "category": "regional-specialty", "region": "general", "era": "", "idMethods": [ "Universal first-edition checks that apply to any publisher" ], "notablePoints": [ "Also rule out an advance review copy or uncorrected proof — those say “ADVANCE REVIEW COPY,” “UNCORRECTED PROOF,” or “NOT FOR SALE,” usually in paper wrappers, and are pre-publication documents, not the first edition." ], "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/publishers/unknown-publisher" }, { "slug": "indiana-university-press", "name": "Indiana University Press", "category": "university-academic", "region": "US", "era": "1950–present", "idMethods": [ "Copyright page states later printings; first printings carry the copyright line alone or 'First edition' / a printing line. Modern titles use a number line where '1' = first printing.", "Midland Books is the paperback line — typically a later issue, not the original first edition.", "Revised editions are dated and numbered." ], "notablePoints": [ "Midland Books paperbacks reissue cloth first editions — confirm whether a paperback is the true first appearance or a reprint.", "Standard academic later-printing-noted convention for older books." ], "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/publishers/indiana-university-press" }, { "slug": "jb-lippincott", "name": "J. B. Lippincott Company", "category": "vintage-us", "region": "US", "era": "1836-1978", "idMethods": [ "From ~1925: printed 'First Edition' on the copyright page of books deemed important; novels and children's books often NOT so marked.", "Reliably indicated later printings ('Second Printing', 'Third Printing', etc.), so absence of a later-printing notice is a key signal for the unmarked titles.", "Mid-1970s: added a descending number line; presence of '1' = first printing." ], "notablePoints": [ "Because 'First Edition' was applied selectively, the absence of that statement does NOT mean a copy is a reprint — check for the absence of any 'Nth Printing' notice instead.", "Publisher of Harper Lee's 'To Kill a Mockingbird' (1960): the famous first has 'First Edition' on the copyright page and the Lippincott colophon; jacket points (Truman Capote blurb, printed price) matter for that title." ], "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/publishers/jb-lippincott" }, { "slug": "johns-hopkins-university-press", "name": "Johns Hopkins University Press", "category": "university-academic", "region": "US", "era": "1878–present (oldest continuously operating US university press; number lines standard later 20th c.)", "idMethods": [ "First printings carry the copyright line with no later-printing notice; subsequent printings/editions are stated. Modern titles add a number line where '1' = first printing.", "Copyright page commonly prints '9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1' or similar; lowest figure = printing.", "Revised editions are explicitly dated and numbered (notably the many serial editions of reference/medical titles)." ], "notablePoints": [ "Johns Hopkins Paperbacks is a paperback reissue line — typically a later printing/issue, not the original first edition.", "Hopkins publishes heavily revised medical, reference, and scholarly serials where edition number matters more than printing — match the specific edition.", "Standard academic later-printing-noted convention for older books." ], "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/publishers/johns-hopkins-university-press" }, { "slug": "jonathan-cape", "name": "Jonathan Cape", "category": "uk-commonwealth", "region": "UK", "era": "1921-present", "idMethods": [ "First printings state \"First published [Year]\" or \"First published in Great Britain [Year]\" on the copyright page with NO additional impression lines and traditionally NO number line", "Later printings noted by added lines (e.g. 'Second impression [year]', 'Reprinted...') — their presence disqualifies a first", "In the modern era Cape (under Random House) adopted a descending number line ending in 1; lowest digit indicates printing", "Absence of any later-printing notation combined with the 'First published' line is the core first-printing signal" ], "notablePoints": [ "Ian Fleming's James Bond novels were published by Cape — 'Casino Royale' (1953) and especially 'Goldfinger'/'Dr No' have famous dust-jacket and binding points; first-state jackets are decisive for value", "Cape published Joyce, Hemingway (UK), T.E. Lawrence, Roald Dahl (UK adult/children), Ian McEwan — high-demand modern firsts", "Watch for US issues and book-club editions sharing sheets", "Older Cape titles predate number lines — rely on the statement + absence of reprint notes" ], "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/publishers/jonathan-cape" }, { "slug": "kelmscott-press", "name": "Kelmscott Press", "category": "fine-private-press", "region": "UK", "era": "1891–1898", "idMethods": [ "Hand-press letterpress limited editions (1891–1898), each with a printed colophon stating the limitation (paper copies plus a small number on VELLUM)", "Morris's proprietary types — Golden, Troy, and Chaucer types — plus woodcut borders/initials and the Kelmscott device; on handmade Batchelor paper or vellum", "Vellum copies are a distinct, far smaller and more valuable sub-state stated in the colophon", "No number line; identify via the colophon, the Morris types, and the press device. Beware later facsimiles/reprints of Kelmscott titles" ], "notablePoints": [ "Founded 1891 by William Morris (Hammersmith, London); launched the modern private-press movement", "The 'Kelmscott Chaucer' (1896, 425 on paper + 13 on vellum, with Burne-Jones woodcuts) is the supreme private-press book", "Vellum vs. paper is the principal state distinction and a huge value driver", "Standard reference: William S. Peterson, 'A Bibliography of the Kelmscott Press'" ], "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/publishers/kelmscott-press" }, { "slug": "knopf-byr", "name": "Knopf Books for Young Readers (Knopf BFYR)", "category": "childrens-ya", "region": "US", "era": "1915–present (children's line mid-20th c. onward)", "idMethods": [ "Knopf house convention applies: stated 'First Edition' on copyright page, historically with the Borzoi colophon", "KEY Knopf quirk inherited by the children's arm: on a true first the number line and the words must AGREE — Knopf's rule is the printing line; a stated 'First Edition' with a number line not ending in 1 is a later printing", "Modern Knopf BFYR (Random House Children's): full number line ending in 1, plus 'First Edition'" ], "notablePoints": [ "Borzoi (running-dog) device is the Knopf signature; appears in children's titles too", "Now part of Random House Children's Books (Penguin Random House)", "Roald Dahl US editions, Judith Viorst (Alexander...), and many picture books carry the Knopf imprint" ], "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/publishers/knopf-byr" }, { "slug": "limited-editions-club", "name": "Limited Editions Club", "category": "fine-private-press", "region": "US", "era": "1929–present (classic Macy era 1929–1956; Shiff era 1979 onward)", "idMethods": [ "Every LEC title is a true limited edition with a printed colophon/limitation leaf (usually at the rear) stating the limitation number out of the edition (commonly 1,500 for the classic Macy era, later varying)", "The colophon is hand-numbered and bears the SIGNATURE of the illustrator/artist (and sometimes the author, translator, or designer); the autograph(s) on the colophon are the primary authentication", "The 'Monthly Letter' (newsletter describing the book's making) accompanied each volume on issue; presence is corroborating but not part of the book proper", "Slipcase typically present; first issue carries the original slipcase and the numbered/signed colophon" ], "notablePoints": [ "Founded 1929 by George Macy; a subscription club issuing ~12 finely-made books per year, each a single limited printing — so there is rarely a 'second printing' to confuse, but later LEC management (after 1970, under Sidney Shiff from 1979) issued smaller, more lavish editions", "DO NOT confuse with Heritage Press: Heritage reprints the same titles in cheaper materials WITHOUT a numbered/signed limitation leaf — the absence of the signed colophon is the tell that a copy is Heritage, not LEC", "Famous signed colophons include Matisse's Ulysses (1935, signed by Matisse; only ~250 of 1,500 also signed by Joyce), Picasso's Lysistrata (1934)", "Condition of the signature and completeness (slipcase + Monthly Letter) drive value" ], "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/publishers/limited-editions-club" }, { "slug": "little-golden-books", "name": "Little Golden Books (Golden Books / Western Publishing / Simon & Schuster)", "category": "childrens-ya", "region": "US", "era": "1942–present (letter-code system 1947–c.2000)", "idMethods": [ "1947–1970: edition letter hidden in the LOWER-RIGHT CORNER of the LAST page (sometimes under the rear cover/pastedown) — 'A' = 1st edition/printing, 'B' = 2nd, 'C' = 3rd, etc. THE defining Little Golden Book point of issue", "Pre-1947: edition stated on the first or second page of the book", "1971–1991: a series of letters on the first few pages; the letter FARTHEST LEFT indicates the printing (A = first)", "1991–c.2000: Roman numerals for the year, followed by letter 'A' (first edition) or 'R' (revised)" ], "notablePoints": [ "The 'A' on the back/last page is the single most cited tell in mid-century picture-book collecting — you often must lift the rear cover slightly to see it", "Earliest LGBs (1942–) had dust jackets and blue spines; later gold foil spines. Spine number and price ('25 CENTS') help date but are not printing indicators", "Reissues with identical art are extremely common — same title can have dozens of printings spanning decades; only the edition letter distinguishes them. The Poky Little Puppy, Scuffy the Tugboat, Tootle, Saggy Baggy Elephant are heavily reprinted", "Western Publishing (Racine, WI) produced them; rights later to Golden Books Family Entertainment, then Random House (1999/2001). Modern Random House LGBs use a standard number line" ], "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/publishers/little-golden-books" }, { "slug": "little-brown", "name": "Little, Brown and Company", "category": "us-trade", "region": "trade", "era": "", "idMethods": [ "“First Edition” or “First Printing” statement", "Number line (late 1970s–present)" ], "notablePoints": [ "The Catcher in the Rye (1951) first states “First Edition” cleanly; its points of issue concern the jacket (Lotte Jacobi rear-panel photo, price position)." ], "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/publishers/little-brown" }, { "slug": "little-brown-byr", "name": "Little, Brown Books for Young Readers (LBYR)", "category": "childrens-ya", "region": "US", "era": "1837–present (children's line mid/late-20th c.)", "idMethods": [ "Little, Brown house convention: modern firsts state 'First Edition' / 'First North American Edition' on copyright page, generally with a number line ending in 1", "Historically Little, Brown stated 'First Edition' or 'Published (Month, Year)' and removed it on later printings; combine with number line", "First printing requires number line to reach 1" ], "notablePoints": [ "LBYR published Stephenie Meyer's Twilight (2005) — a major modern YA point-of-issue collectible; true first = full number line to 1 plus 'First Edition: October 2005'", "Also home to the Alvin Ho / Clementine lines and many picture books", "Part of Hachette Book Group; older Little, Brown was independent then Time Warner — imprint conventions consistent across ownership" ], "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/publishers/little-brown-byr" }, { "slug": "macmillan", "name": "Macmillan", "category": "us-trade", "region": "trade", "era": "", "idMethods": [ "“First printing” (US, 1936+)", "“First Published [Year]” (UK, mid-1920s+)", "Number line (1970s–present)" ], "notablePoints": [ "US and UK Macmillan conventions differ — establish which imprint you hold first." ], "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/publishers/macmillan" }, { "slug": "macmillan-uk", "name": "Macmillan (UK)", "category": "uk-commonwealth", "region": "UK", "era": "1843-present", "idMethods": [ "Pre-mid-1920s: no statement on firsts; only later printings were noted (rely on negative evidence + dating)", "Mid-1920s onward: \"First published [Year]\" stated on the copyright page of first editions; later printings noted", "Modern Pan Macmillan/Picador titles use a number line ending in 1; lowest digit = printing", "First printing = era-appropriate statement (or, pre-1920s, absence of any reprint note) with no later-impression lines" ], "notablePoints": [ "One of the oldest UK houses (1843): Tennyson, Hardy, Kipling, Yeats, Lewis Carroll (Macmillan published 'Alice')", "Pre-1920s 'no statement' policy makes Victorian/Edwardian Macmillan firsts dependent on advertisement dating and binding states", "Distinct from the US Macmillan company (separated mid-20th c.) — provenance matters for transatlantic authors" ], "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/publishers/macmillan-uk" }, { "slug": "mark-v-ziesing", "name": "Mark V. Ziesing Books", "category": "science-fiction-fantasy", "region": "US", "era": "1980s–1990s", "idMethods": [ "Limited and trade states identified by the limitation/colophon leaf stating the numbered (and sometimes lettered) run, frequently signed", "First printing indicated by absence of later-printing notation; most titles are single small print runs", "Confirm slipcase/binding state as called for in the limitation" ], "notablePoints": [ "Mark Ziesing's specialty press (1980s–1990s); high-design horror/SF including Stephen King's 'The Dark Tower III: The Waste Lands' trade-ancillary work and Lucius Shepard, Bruce Sterling titles", "Published the collectible signed limited of King's 'Nightmares & Dreamscapes'-era and other genre high spots; production design itself is a collecting draw" ], "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/publishers/mark-v-ziesing" }, { "slug": "mcclelland-and-stewart", "name": "McClelland & Stewart", "category": "uk-commonwealth", "region": "Canada", "era": "1906-present", "idMethods": [ "PRIMARY (era-dependent): M&S has no single universal first-printing convention; method depends on the period. For earlier/mid-century Canadian firsts, identify by the ABSENCE of any later-printing/number line on the copyright page, combined with a 'First published [Year]' (or 'First printing [Year]') statement and the M&S imprint. A genuine M&S first frequently has NO number line at all — do not reject it for lacking one.", "Modern titles (roughly 1990s-present): a printer's-key number line IS used; lowest digit indicates the printing, so a line ending in 1 (e.g. '1 2 3 4 5' or '5 4 3 2 1', sometimes with year digits) indicates a first printing. Verified example: Atwood, The Robber Bride (M&S, 1993) carries a full M&S number line.", "Corroborate with the printer's imprint / colophon for early-20th-century titles (e.g. L.M. Montgomery M&S firsts of the 1920s show printer names like Warwick Bros. & Rutter, with Hunter-Rose on later printings).", "CRITICAL caution: a number line ending in 1 does NOT by itself confirm an M&S first, because many of these authors had simultaneous or precedent US/UK editions that also use number lines. Verified counterexample: Atwood, Bodily Harm — the M&S Canadian first (1981) has NO number line and is identified by the absence of a subsequent-printing statement, while the number line '10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1' belongs to the US Simon & Schuster edition (1982), NOT the M&S first." ], "notablePoints": [ "'The Canadian Publishers' — M&S published the Canadian firsts of Margaret Atwood, Margaret Laurence, Leonard Cohen, Alice Munro, and Mordecai Richler (note: Munro's M&S titles came largely via the Douglas Gibson Books imprint from 1986).", "New Canadian Library (launched 1958, founded by Malcolm Ross) is a quality paperback REPRINT series of Canadian literary works — NOT first editions.", "Many of these Canadian authors also had US and/or UK firsts; verify which national edition has true precedence, since the M&S edition is not always the first printing and the foreign edition may carry the number line.", "Founding note: the firm dates to 1906 but as 'McClelland & Goodchild'; the 'McClelland & Stewart' name dates from 1919, so '1906-present' is only correct for the company lineage, not the M&S imprint name." ], "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/publishers/mcclelland-and-stewart" }, { "slug": "mcgraw-hill", "name": "McGraw-Hill Book Company", "category": "vintage-us", "region": "US", "era": "1909-1980s (consistent statement from 1956)", "idMethods": [ "Pre-1956: McGraw-Hill may not have used a first-edition statement at all. Where one appears, it is on the COPYRIGHT PAGE (not the title page); the safest pre-1956 signal is a single un-amended copyright date with no later-printing/reprint notice.", "From 1956 onward: adopted a consistent 'First Edition' statement on the COPYRIGHT PAGE and noted subsequent printings.", "From around 1972: began using a number line (number row), sometimes alongside a 'First Edition' statement. Absence of later printings supports a first, BUT note McGraw-Hill occasionally failed to remove the 'First Edition' statement from later printings, so once a number line is present the lowest number in the row is the more reliable indicator." ], "notablePoints": [ "Primarily a technical/educational/reference publisher — for textbooks, 'edition' typically means a revised edition, NOT a first printing; treat textbook 'editions' with caution.", "Whittlesey House was McGraw-Hill's trade/general imprint (McGraw-Hill entered trade publishing under it in 1930) and is where most collectible vintage McGraw-Hill firsts appear.", "Pre-1956 practice was inconsistent; a single un-amended copyright date plus no reprint notice is the safest pre-1956 signal." ], "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/publishers/mcgraw-hill" }, { "slug": "mcsweeneys", "name": "McSweeney's", "category": "regional-specialty", "region": "US", "era": "1998–present", "idMethods": [ "Highly designed copyright/colophon pages; many books and especially the 'Quarterly Concern' issues are produced as distinct physical objects where the issue number and elaborate colophon are the identifying apparatus, not a conventional number line", "Trade book titles generally do carry a standard number line ending in 1 and/or a stated 'First Edition' on the copyright page", "San Francisco independent founded 1998 by Dave Eggers; nonprofit since 2014", "For the Quarterly (McSweeney's Issue 1, 2, ... ) treat each issue as a discrete numbered object; variant covers/bindings and 'collector's editions' exist within a single issue number" ], "notablePoints": [ "McSweeney's Quarterly issues are famous for variant formats (boxes, multiple booklets, variant covers within one issue — e.g., Issue 11 collector's edition); a single 'issue' can have multiple physical states, so the collectible point is the issue number plus the specific format/binding variant rather than a printing line", "Some trade titles had simultaneous or near-simultaneous editions and limited signed states — verify limitation statements", "For trade books, conventional stated-first + number line applies; for the Quarterly, rely on issue number and documented format variants" ], "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/publishers/mcsweeneys" }, { "slug": "melville-house", "name": "Melville House Publishing", "category": "regional-specialty", "region": "US", "era": "2001–present", "idMethods": [ "Stated 'First Edition' / 'First Melville House Printing: [year]' on the copyright page is common", "Descending number line ending in 1 on first printings (modern standard)", "Brooklyn (Hoboken origin) independent founded 2001 by Dennis Johnson and Valerie Merians; conventional identification", "Series titles (Art of the Novella, Neversink) are reprints of public-domain works — 'first' refers to the Melville House edition/printing, not the work" ], "notablePoints": [ "Many catalog titles are reissues of classics; a 'first edition' designation refers to Melville House's edition, so confirm it's the first Melville House printing via the number line", "Distinctive uniform series design (Art of the Novella) — no per-title points of issue", "No proprietary house key" ], "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/publishers/melville-house" }, { "slug": "mercury-mysteries", "name": "Mercury Publications / Mercury Mysteries (Lawrence Spivak)", "category": "mystery-crime", "region": "US", "era": "1937-1950s", "idMethods": [ "Digest-sized paperback reprint/abridgment line (1937-1950s) tied to The American Mercury / Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine; identify by series number (Mercury Mystery #/Bestseller Mystery #/Jonathan Press #).", "Generally REPRINTS or abridgments, not firsts; the series number and digest format are the identifiers. Copyright page notes the original publisher.", "First-printing-of-the-digest can be inferred from the series number and absence of a reprint note, but the magazine/original hardcover is usually the true first." ], "notablePoints": [ "Edited/published in the orbit of Lawrence Spivak and Frederic Dannay (Ellery Queen); important historically for keeping detective fiction in print cheaply.", "Confused with Fawcett/Dell only superficially — Mercury is digest-sized and reprint-oriented.", "Occasionally the digest is the first BOOK appearance of a story that ran only in a magazine; in those cases note 'first book appearance,' not 'first edition.'" ], "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/publishers/mercury-mysteries" }, { "slug": "methuen", "name": "Methuen & Co.", "category": "uk-commonwealth", "region": "UK", "era": "1889-present", "idMethods": [ "Since 1905: state \"First published in [Year]\" or \"First published in Great Britain [Year]\" on the copyright page of firsts, with later printings noted", "Pre-1905: no copyright-page statement on firsts; later printings sometimes indicated by a 'thousands' statement on the title page (e.g. 'Forty-third Thousand') — a higher 'thousand' = later printing", "First printing = the 'First published' statement (post-1905) OR absence of any 'thousand'/reprint notation (pre-1905)", "Modern Methuen (and as Bloomsbury imprint) uses number lines" ], "notablePoints": [ "The 'Nth Thousand' title-page convention is a classic Edwardian-era tell — the FIRST thousand printing is the true first; later 'thousands' are reprints, not firsts", "Published Kenneth Grahame ('The Wind in the Willows', 1908), A.A. Milne ('Winnie-the-Pooh' Methuen, 1926), Oscar Wilde, Robert Graves", "Milne/Pooh firsts have specific binding and first-issue points highly sought after" ], "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/publishers/methuen" }, { "slug": "michael-joseph", "name": "Michael Joseph", "category": "uk-commonwealth", "region": "UK", "era": "1935-present", "idMethods": [ "First editions state \"First published [Year]\" or \"First published in Great Britain [Year]\" on the copyright page with later printings noted", "First printing = statement present AND no subsequent-impression lines", "Modern (Penguin-owned) titles use number lines ending in 1", "Confirm via clean copyright page free of 'Reprinted/Second impression' notation" ], "notablePoints": [ "Strong commercial fiction list: H.E. Bates, Dick Francis, Monica Dickens, James Herriot (UK), Catherine Cookson", "Now an imprint within Penguin Random House", "Book-club and Reprint Society (World Books) editions are common look-alikes to weed out" ], "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/publishers/michael-joseph" }, { "slug": "milkweed-editions", "name": "Milkweed Editions", "category": "regional-specialty", "region": "US", "era": "1984–present", "idMethods": [ "Stated 'First Edition' or 'Published [year] by Milkweed Editions' on the copyright page; literary titles frequently carry a stated first", "Descending number line ending in 1 on first printings (modern standard)", "Nonprofit press, Minneapolis, founded 1980 (book program 1984); conventional contemporary identification — no proprietary house key", "Copyright-page colophon naming the typeface/designer is common but is decorative, not an edition point" ], "notablePoints": [ "Poetry collections often print in small runs; first printings are scarce but identified normally via stated-first + number line", "Watch for later printings of breakout titles (e.g., heavily reprinted nature/essay titles) where '1' has dropped off the line", "No book-club-edition tradition for most Milkweed titles" ], "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/publishers/milkweed-editions" }, { "slug": "mit-press", "name": "MIT Press", "category": "university-academic", "region": "US", "era": "1962–present (number line standard)", "idMethods": [ "Copyright page carries a descending number line ('10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1'); the lowest number present indicates the printing — a '1' = first printing. This is MIT Press's standard modern convention.", "Older/first printings may state 'First MIT Press edition' or 'First printing, 19xx'; later printings are noted on the copyright page.", "Revised editions are dated and numbered." ], "notablePoints": [ "Bradford Books (cognitive science/philosophy of mind imprint, e.g., Dennett titles) is an MIT Press imprint and follows MIT Press copyright-page conventions; a 'Bradford Book' line is an imprint identifier, not a printing indicator.", "MIT technical/textbook titles reprint heavily with an unchanged copyright year — the number line is essential; do not infer first printing from the copyright date alone.", "Some co-publications with other houses show that partner's printing history." ], "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/publishers/mit-press" }, { "slug": "mountaineers-books", "name": "Mountaineers Books / The Mountaineers", "category": "regional-specialty", "region": "US", "era": "1960s–present", "idMethods": [ "Number line on copyright page; first printing carries the full descending line ending in 1", "Many titles state the printing explicitly ('First edition, [year]' or 'First printing')", "Nonprofit outdoor/conservation press of The Mountaineers club (Seattle), publishing since the 1960s; conventional identification", "Because guidebooks are serially revised, the EDITION number (1st/2nd/3rd edition) is the key bibliographic point, often printed as 'Second edition: first printing'" ], "notablePoints": [ "Flagship 'Mountaineering: The Freedom of the Hills' runs to many numbered editions; collectors track edition (content revision) not just printing", "Distinguish edition statements from printing lines — a guidebook can be a 'first printing' of a 'fourth edition'", "Braided River conservation titles are large-format; standard number-line identification applies" ], "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/publishers/mountaineers-books" }, { "slug": "museum-new-mexico-press", "name": "Museum of New Mexico Press", "category": "southwest-nm", "region": "southwest", "era": "", "idMethods": [ "ISBN prefix 978-0-89013", "Negative-evidence (no reprint language)", "Number line when present", "Exhibition catalogs are usually single-printing" ], "notablePoints": [ "Frequently confused with UNM Press — the ISBN prefix settles it.", "Acquired the Red Crane Books catalog in 2007." ], "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/publishers/museum-new-mexico-press" }, { "slug": "new-directions", "name": "New Directions", "category": "poetry-literary", "region": "US", "era": "1936–present (convention shifts ~1970)", "idMethods": [ "Late 1940s through 1969: a true first has NO additional printings/dates listed on the copyright page — there is no consistent 'First Edition' statement in this era, so absence of later-printing notice plus correct first-state binding is the signal.", "Modern era (roughly 1970s onward): copyright page reads 'First published clothbound (ISBN ...) and as New Directions Paperbook NNN (ISBN ...) in [year]' — the explicit 'First published ... in [year]' line identifies the first.", "Modern paperbacks carry a descending number line; lowest digit (1) present indicates first printing.", "Binding/format state matters: ND frequently issued a title simultaneously in cloth and as a numbered NDP wrappers edition — the clothbound is generally the more collected 'first', but both can be first printings of the same year.", "NDP series numbers (e.g., 'New Directions Paperbook 74') and 'New Classics' (NC) / numbered-series designations help place edition and date." ], "notablePoints": [ "Founded 1936 by James Laughlin; the premier US avant-garde/poetry house (Pound, Williams, Rexroth, Snyder, Levertov, Bishop, Borges, Nabokov early titles).", "Pre-1970 ND books rarely say 'First Edition' outright — collectors rely on copyright-page silence about later printings plus dust jacket and binding points; consult Connolly/Pound bibliographies for famous titles.", "Simultaneous cloth + wraps issue is a recurring confusion: a wrappers NDP copy can still be a genuine first printing even though a cloth issue also exists.", "Number-line convention only became reliable in the later 20th century; do not expect a number line on a 1940s–50s ND book." ], "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/publishers/new-directions" }, { "slug": "night-shade-books", "name": "Night Shade Books", "category": "science-fiction-fantasy", "region": "US", "era": "1997–present (independent era 1997–2013)", "idMethods": [ "Trade first: copyright-page number line with '1' present and no later printings listed (standard modern-trade convention; no documented Night Shade-specific number-line quirk, so treat as the generic default)", "Signed/limited states: where issued, confirm via the signed limitation sheet/colophon stating the run size and number. Night Shade did produce some signed first states and deluxe issues of its collected-edition projects, but a documented pattern of BOTH numbered AND lettered states for early titles is unverified — do not assume a lettered state exists without seeing the limitation statement", "Match against ISFDB/dealer bibliographic records for the specific title, since Night Shade limited-state practice was inconsistent across titles rather than a uniform house standard" ], "notablePoints": [ "Founded 1997 by Jason Williams (San Francisco); known for reviving classic weird fiction via the 5-volume Collected Fantasies of Clark Ashton Smith and the Collected Fiction of William Hope Hodgson, and for launching Paolo Bacigalupi (debut novel The Windup Girl, 2009, Hugo/Nebula winner)", "CORRECTION: 'Glen Cook reissues' is misattributed — the Black Company omnibus reissues (Chronicles of the Black Company, etc.) were published by Tor / Tom Doherty Associates, NOT Night Shade. Night Shade's only notable Cook title was 'The Best of Glen Cook' (2019), a Skyhorse/Start-era collection, not an independent-era reissue", "After the 2013 financial collapse (precipitated in part by the demise of Borders) the imprint was acquired and continued under Skyhorse/Start Publishing; post-2013 printings carry different distribution/imprint language, and the independent-era (1997-2013) firsts are the collectible ones" ], "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/publishers/night-shade-books" }, { "slug": "nonesuch-press", "name": "Nonesuch Press", "category": "fine-private-press", "region": "UK", "era": "1922–1968 (active core 1920s–30s)", "idMethods": [ "Limited editions, but Nonesuch was distinctive for using COMMERCIAL trade printers and fine machine composition to high design standards rather than a single hand press", "Printed colophon/limitation statement giving the number; some titles in larger limitations than the hand-presses", "Meynell's elegant typography and the Nonesuch device authenticate; first issue identified by the limitation leaf and absence of later-issue/reprint statements", "No number line — colophon and limitation statement identify" ], "notablePoints": [ "Founded 1922 by Francis Meynell (with David Garnett and Vera Mendel); proved fine design could be achieved using ordinary trade printers — a different philosophy from Kelmscott/Doves", "Famous: the 'Nonesuch Dickens' (1937–38, 24 vols., each set issued with an original Dickens electrotype plate) — the plate is a famous point distinguishing the genuine set", "Larger editions and machine printing mean Nonesuch books are more available than the hand-presses", "Standard reference: John Dreyfus, 'A History of the Nonesuch Press' (with bibliography)" ], "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/publishers/nonesuch-press" }, { "slug": "northland-press", "name": "Northland Press / Northland Publishing", "category": "southwest-nm", "region": "southwest", "era": "", "idMethods": [ "ISBN prefix 0-87358 (all eras)", "Flagstaff, Arizona imprint line", "Fine-press colophon with limitation on early limited editions", "Number line / negative-evidence on trade editions" ], "notablePoints": [ "Two production traditions: early Weaver-era fine-press limiteds and later trade editions under Northland Publishing." ], "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/publishers/northland-press" }, { "slug": "officina-bodoni", "name": "Officina Bodoni", "category": "fine-private-press", "region": "Italy", "era": "1922–1977 (Hans Mardersteig; continued by son Martino)", "idMethods": [ "Hand-press letterpress limited editions, most with a printed colophon giving the limitation, the date, and Mardersteig's imprint; many hand-numbered", "Use of Mardersteig's own recut types (notably the 'Dante' type, and his revival of original Bodoni types) and fine handmade papers — typographic identity authenticates", "Colophon names the press (Officina Bodoni, Verona/Montagnola) and printing details; deluxe copies on special paper or with extra plates at lower numbers", "No number line — colophon limitation and Mardersteig imprint identify; distinguish hand-press Officina Bodoni from machine-printed Stamperia Valdonega work" ], "notablePoints": [ "Founded 1922 by Hans (Giovanni) Mardersteig, first at Montagnola (Switzerland), from 1927 at Verona; one of the greatest 20th-century fine presses", "Mardersteig also designed the Dante and Griffo types; printed the official complete works for Italian and German publishers", "The standard reference is the Officina Bodoni bibliography ('Officina Bodoni: An Account...' / the editions catalogue) — consult it for exact limitations", "Distinguish Officina Bodoni (hand-press, fine limited) from Stamperia Valdonega (Mardersteig family commercial press, machine-set) — different collectibility" ], "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/publishers/officina-bodoni" }, { "slug": "oxford-university-press-academic", "name": "Oxford University Press", "category": "university-academic", "region": "UK", "era": "first editions: no statement until late 1980s; number line late 1980s–present", "idMethods": [ "Until the late 1980s OUP made NO affirmative first-edition statement; first printings carried only the copyright/publication line, while LATER printings were noted ('Reprinted 19xx,' 'Second impression') on the copyright page.", "From the late 1980s OUP adopted a number row/line on the copyright page; the lowest number present indicates the printing ('1' = first).", "Clarendon Press scholarly works follow the same conventions and often add impression/reprint dates." ], "notablePoints": [ "Pre-late-1980s rule (per ILAB): NO statement on firsts, reprints noted — so 'no reprint line + earliest copyright date' is the working signal for older Oxford and Clarendon books.", "Oxford World's Classics and Oxford Paperbacks are reprint/series lines — not first printings of the original.", "OUP USA (New York) titles may show separate US printing histories from the UK edition; distinguish UK Clarendon firsts from US co-editions.", "This entry covers OUP's academic/trade scholarly output; a separate oxford-up entry already exists in the reference — this captures the era caveat and Clarendon specifically." ], "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/publishers/oxford-university-press-academic" }, { "slug": "oxford-up", "name": "Oxford University Press", "category": "university-academic", "region": "trade", "era": "", "idMethods": [ "No statement before the late 1980s (negative-evidence)", "Number line (late 1980s–present)" ], "notablePoints": [ "Known to bind first-edition sheets at later dates — binding variants matter, so the copyright page alone is not always sufficient." ], "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/publishers/oxford-up" }, { "slug": "picador-uk", "name": "Pan Macmillan / Picador (UK)", "category": "uk-commonwealth", "region": "UK", "era": "1947 (Pan) / 1972 (Picador)-present", "idMethods": [ "First printings carry a number line, typically descending ending in 1 (1 present = first); lowest digit indicates printing", "Copyright page shows the original year with no later-edition or reprint statement", "Picador originated as a quality paperback imprint (1972) and later issued hardcover firsts — distinguish a Picador first paperback edition from an earlier hardcover true first elsewhere", "First printing = number line ending in 1 + no reprint notation" ], "notablePoints": [ "Picador's literary list: Cormac McCarthy (UK), Bret Easton Ellis (UK), Graham Swift, many Booker authors", "Because Picador often issued UK paperback editions of books first published elsewhere, 'first Picador edition' is frequently NOT the true first edition of the work", "Pan was the mass-market paperback arm; Pan firsts are paperback-original firsts in some cases" ], "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/publishers/picador-uk" }, { "slug": "pantheon-books", "name": "Pantheon Books", "category": "us-trade", "region": "US", "era": "1942–present", "idMethods": [ "Modern Pantheon (Knopf Doubleday / PRH): states 'First Edition' on the copyright page AND uses a descending number line ending in 1.", "A true first has both the 'First Edition' statement and the 1 present; reprints drop 'First Edition' and/or the 1.", "Earlier Pantheon (pre-RH, founded 1942): identification by absence of additional printings and by stated 'First Edition' / 'First Printing' where present.", "Borzoi/Knopf-family typography appears on some post-merger Pantheon books." ], "notablePoints": [ "Founded 1942 by Kurt Wolff and Helen Wolff; literary/intellectual list (Camus, Pasternak's Doctor Zhivago US, Boris Vian, graphic novels later — Maus).", "Acquired by Random House 1961; now part of the Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group within Penguin Random House.", "Follows the RH/Knopf 'First Edition' + line-to-1 convention in the modern era — among the cleaner houses to identify.", "Schocken (sister imprint, Jewish-interest) follows the same convention." ], "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/publishers/pantheon-books" }, { "slug": "penguin-books", "name": "Penguin Books", "category": "uk-commonwealth", "region": "UK", "era": "1935-present", "idMethods": [ "For reprint titles, firsts are flagged \"First published [elsewhere/date]\" with the Penguin printing noted as \"Published in Penguin Books [Year]\" — the FIRST PENGUIN PRINTING is identified by 'Published in Penguin Books [year]' with no later Penguin reprint line", "Penguin paperback originals: first printing identified by the dated 'Published... [year]' line and absence of a 'Reprinted' line", "Modern Penguin uses descending number lines ending in 1; lowest digit = printing", "Penguin numbering/series numbers (the historic Penguin number) and cover-design generation help date early printings" ], "notablePoints": [ "Penguin is overwhelmingly a REPRINT publisher — a 'Penguin first edition' is usually NOT the true first edition of the work (the hardcover elsewhere is); collectors must distinguish 'first Penguin printing' from 'first edition'", "The 1960 'Lady Chatterley's Lover' Penguin (the obscenity-trial edition) is a notable collected printing with its own points", "Allen Lane (hardcover imprint) and Viking are where Penguin-group TRUE firsts appear", "Early Penguins are collected by series number and cover generation rather than edition statements" ], "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/publishers/penguin-books" }, { "slug": "pennyroyal-press", "name": "Pennyroyal Press", "category": "fine-private-press", "region": "US", "era": "c.1970s–present", "idMethods": [ "Limited letterpress editions with a printed, hand-numbered colophon; signed by Barry Moser and frequently by the author/editor", "Original Moser wood engravings throughout; the engraved Pennyroyal device/colophon authenticates", "Deluxe vs. standard states distinguished by binding and extra signed print suites stated in the colophon", "No number line — colophon limitation statement is definitive" ], "notablePoints": [ "Founded by Barry Moser (West Hatfield, MA) in the 1970s; famous for the Pennyroyal 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland' (1982) and 'Through the Looking-Glass'", "The Pennyroyal Caxton Bible (1999, with the University of California / Caxton) is the monumental project — a King James Bible illustrated by Moser, one of the great late-20th-c. American fine-press books", "Distinguish Pennyroyal Press proper from the later 'Pennyroyal Caxton' imprint used for the Bible", "Trade reprints of some Moser-illustrated titles exist (e.g., via UC Press/Godine) — not the limited letterpress first" ], "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/publishers/pennyroyal-press" }, { "slug": "picador-us", "name": "Picador (US)", "category": "us-trade", "region": "US", "era": "1994–present", "idMethods": [ "States 'First Edition' or 'First Picador Edition (Year)' / 'First Picador USA Edition (Year)' on the copyright page WITH a descending number line ending in 1.", "Macmillan-family (FSG/Holt/St. Martin's) convention: 'First Edition' statement + number line to 1.", "Many Picador US titles are trade-paperback reprints of FSG/Holt/SMP hardcovers — a 'First Picador Edition' is the first of that Picador printing, NOT necessarily the first edition of the work; confirm against the original hardcover.", "Line ending in 1 plus statement = first of that Picador printing." ], "notablePoints": [ "Picador USA launched in 1995 (not 1994) as St. Martin's Press's literary imprint; became a separate Holtzbrinck division in 2000; now part of Macmillan's trade group alongside FSG, Holt, SMP.", "Frequently a trade-paperback reprinter — so a 'first Picador edition' is often NOT the first edition of the title; check the original hardcover.", "Picador US DID originate some titles (paperback originals, which ARE firsts) from ~1995 until April 2019; as of April 2019 it stopped publishing originals and reprints exclusively, so for titles published 2019+ a 'First Picador Edition' is essentially never the true first edition of the work.", "Distinct from UK Picador (Pan Macmillan), which originates its own line; do not conflate." ], "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/publishers/picador-us" }, { "slug": "childrens-book-club-editions", "name": "Picture-book & Children's Book-Club / Special Editions (cross-publisher identification)", "category": "childrens-ya", "region": "US", "era": "1920s–present (peak club era 1940s–1980s)", "idMethods": [ "NO PRICE on the dust jacket flap (clipped or never printed) is the leading book-club tell for trade-publisher picture books", "Blind stamp (small debossed dot, circle, square, star, or maple leaf) on the LOWER-RIGHT corner of the REAR board", "Smaller trim size and cheaper/thinner paper stock than the trade edition; plain endpapers matching text stock (no decorative color)", "A short vertical string of numbers/capital letters near the gutter on a rear page; absence of ISBN on early club editions", "Explicit club imprint on jacket/spine/copyright page (e.g. 'Weekly Reader Children's Book Club', 'A Junior Literary Guild Selection' note — note: a Guild SELECTION line can appear on trade firsts too, so use it with other signals)" ], "notablePoints": [ "Mid-century picture books circulated massively through clubs — Sendak, Eric Carle, Dr. Seuss, McCloskey all have club look-alikes that fool buyers; the trade first is worth many multiples of the club copy", "Caldecott/Newbery MEDAL on the cover (gold/silver foil printed INTO the art) generally means a later printing — true firsts predate the award and lack the seal (a stick-on foil seal is removable and ambiguous; a printed-in seal is diagnostic of a later state)", "Book Fair / Scholastic Book Club editions of modern titles carry distinct ISBNs and printing strings and are explicitly not trade firsts", "Always cross-check trim size + price + blind stamp + paper together; any single signal can mislead" ], "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/publishers/childrens-book-club-editions" }, { "slug": "poisoned-pen-press", "name": "Poisoned Pen Press", "category": "mystery-crime", "region": "US", "era": "1997-present", "idMethods": [ "Modern copyright-page number line; first printing shows the full descending line ending in '1' and often a 'First Edition' statement.", "Many titles issued simultaneously in hardcover, trade paperback, and a numbered library 'large print' — each format's first printing is set by its own number line.", "Post-2018 Sourcebooks-era titles follow Sourcebooks/Landmark copyright conventions (number line, 'First Edition')." ], "notablePoints": [ "Founded 1997 in Scottsdale AZ (associated with The Poisoned Pen bookstore); acquired by Sourcebooks in 2018 — pre- and post-acquisition copyright pages look different.", "Some titles were UK or original-market firsts reprinted by Poisoned Pen for the US (e.g., British Library Crime Classics distributed in the US) — those are first-thus/first US, not the world first.", "British Library Crime Classics reprints distributed by Poisoned Pen are reprints of vintage texts; the 'first edition' line refers only to that modern reissue." ], "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/publishers/poisoned-pen-press" }, { "slug": "prime-press", "name": "Prime Press", "category": "science-fiction-fantasy", "region": "US", "era": "1947–c.1953", "idMethods": [ "First state identified by single print run and absence of later-printing notation; some titles issued in a signed/numbered limited state with a limitation statement", "Match original dust jacket and confirm title-page/copyright date agreement" ], "notablePoints": [ "Philadelphia fan-founded specialty house (late 1940s–early 1950s) contemporaneous with Fantasy Press, Gnome, and Shasta", "Small print runs make condition and jacket presence decisive; signed limiteds exist for some titles" ], "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/publishers/prime-press" }, { "slug": "princeton-university-press", "name": "Princeton University Press", "category": "university-academic", "region": "US", "era": "1905–present (number-line/printing statements standard from the later 20th c.)", "idMethods": [ "Copyright page states 'First printing' or carries a number line; lowest number present indicates the printing. A '1' in the line = first printing.", "Subsequent printings are noted on the copyright page ('Second printing,' 'Third printing, with corrections,' etc.); absence of any later-printing statement on an unrevised text indicates a first.", "Revised/expanded editions state the new edition and original publication date — these are not first printings of the original first edition." ], "notablePoints": [ "Bollingen Series (e.g., the Collected Works of C. G. Jung, the I Ching, Joseph Campbell) was published under Princeton University Press from 1967; Bollingen volumes are commonly reprinted with corrections, so check the printing line and 'with corrections' notes carefully.", "Princeton Classics and Princeton Science Library are reprint/paperback lines — a book in these series is by definition a later issue of an earlier first edition, not a first printing.", "Heavily reprinted academic staples (e.g., Strunk's editions, Kuhn-adjacent titles) keep the same copyright year across printings; rely on the number line, not the copyright date." ], "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/publishers/princeton-university-press" }, { "slug": "ps-publishing", "name": "PS Publishing", "category": "science-fiction-fantasy", "region": "UK", "era": "1999–present", "idMethods": [ "States identified by a signed limitation sheet: typically a signed/numbered hardcover (e.g. /100, /200, /500) and a more exclusive signed/lettered (often 26, A–Z) traycased state, plus sometimes an unsigned trade", "First printing indicated by the limitation statement and absence of later printings; the slipcase/traycase and jacket variant distinguish states", "Confirm the run figure printed on the limitation/signature leaf" ], "notablePoints": [ "Founded 1999 by Peter Crowther (UK); prolific in novellas and signed limited SF/F/horror (Ramsey Campbell, Stephen Baxter, Gene Wolfe)", "Many titles exist only as small signed limiteds, making the signed/numbered the true first; lettered is the prestige state", "Drugstore Indian Press issues cheaper paperback reprints — NOT the collectible firsts" ], "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/publishers/ps-publishing" }, { "slug": "putnam-philomel-childrens", "name": "Putnam / Philomel / Grosset & Dunlap (Penguin children's, formerly G.P. Putnam's Sons)", "category": "childrens-ya", "region": "US", "era": "1838–present (Putnam); Philomel 1980–present; Penguin number-line era 1980s–present", "idMethods": [ "Modern Penguin house style: full descending number line ending in 1; often 'First Impression' / 'First Edition' stated", "Philomel (founded 1980 by Ann Beneduce) follows the same number-line-to-1 rule", "Grosset & Dunlap mass-market series (Nancy Drew, Hardy Boys) have their OWN complex format-based points (list-of-titles-on-rear-flap, no number line in early eras) — distinct from trade picture-book ID" ], "notablePoints": [ "Philomel published Eric Carle's later works and Patricia Polacco; Jan Brett titles at Putnam", "Grosset & Dunlap early series-book firsts are dated by the advertised title list on the dust jacket / rear, NOT a number line — a specialist subfield with frequent reprints", "All consolidated under Penguin Young Readers (Penguin Random House)" ], "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/publishers/putnam-philomel-childrens" }, { "slug": "quinto-sol-publications", "name": "Quinto Sol Publications", "category": "southwest-nm", "region": "southwest", "era": "", "idMethods": [ "Imprint “Quinto Sol Publications, Inc.” with a Berkeley, California address", "No number lines and no explicit first-edition statements — identification is by physical points of issue", "ISBN prefix 0-88412" ], "notablePoints": [ "The press that created the Chicano literary canon. All four Premio Quinto Sol winners are now deceased — their signature pools are closed.", "Identification is physical, not statement-based: match imprint, format, pagination, cover, and paper stock." ], "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/publishers/quinto-sol-publications" }, { "slug": "random-house", "name": "Random House", "category": "us-trade", "region": "trade", "era": "", "idMethods": [ "Stated \"First Edition\" plus a number line containing 1", "Descending number line (10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1)" ], "notablePoints": [ "Convention has been consistent since 1976, making Random House among the easiest American houses to authenticate." ], "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/publishers/random-house" }, { "slug": "random-house-trade-imprint", "name": "Random House (trade imprint)", "category": "us-trade", "region": "US", "era": "1927–present", "idMethods": [ "Classic convention (mid-20th c. onward): the words 'FIRST EDITION' stated on the copyright page; on a TRUE first that statement appears WITH the number line — and when a later printing occurs, Random House REMOVES the words 'First Edition' (the line alone remains).", "Number line: descending, first printing retains '1'. Random House's well-known rule is that 'First Edition' + a complete number line ending in 2 can occur on later states, so the safest test is 'First Edition' present AND lowest number 1.", "Pre-number-line era: 'First Edition' / 'First Printing' statement, or absence of later-printing notation.", "Borzoi/RH device and pricing on jacket flap; BCEs lack price and have rear-board blind stamp." ], "notablePoints": [ "Founded 1927 by Bennett Cerf and Donald Klopfer (out of the Modern Library reprint business).", "Key Random House point of issue: on later printings the firm DROPS 'First Edition' from the copyright page — so seeing 'First Edition' is meaningful, but always confirm the 1 is present in the line.", "Now the namesake of Penguin Random House; the modern 'First Edition' + line-to-1 convention is the family standard many sibling imprints follow.", "Modern Library is a REPRINT/classics line — not a source of true firsts." ], "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/publishers/random-house-trade-imprint" }, { "slug": "red-crane-books", "name": "Red Crane Books", "category": "southwest-nm", "region": "southwest", "era": "", "idMethods": [ "ISBN prefix 1-878610", "Red Crane Books imprint", "“First edition” stated on some titles", "Number line when present; otherwise negative-evidence" ], "notablePoints": [ "Cookbook series, Larry Frank's santos photography, and the New Mexico Poetry Renaissance anthology; no longer an independent press." ], "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/publishers/red-crane-books" }, { "slug": "reynal-hitchcock", "name": "Reynal & Hitchcock", "category": "vintage-us", "region": "US", "era": "1933-1948", "idMethods": [ "Until 1947: NO first-edition statement on US-originated firsts; subsequent printings WERE noted on the copyright page, so the ABSENCE of any later-printing notice is the identifying point for a first. This is the only documented general R&H convention (per the standard ILAB/QBbooks 'First Edition Identification by Publisher' guide).", "For books published after 1947, defer to Harcourt, Brace & Co. identification points, since R&H was absorbed by Harcourt in 1948 and later issues of R&H titles carry Harcourt imprints/points.", "No general device or 'edition' statement marks an R&H first. Identification is title-by-title via established issue points (binding, colophon, dust-jacket price/address) rather than a house-wide rule." ], "notablePoints": [ "Founded 1933 by Eugene Reynal and Curtice Hitchcock; absorbed by Harcourt, Brace in 1948 — later issues of their titles may bear Harcourt imprints and points.", "There is NO general 'tell' for an R&H first beyond the absence of a later-printing notice on the copyright page; the firm did not use a house-wide first-edition device or statement.", "Publisher of Saint-Exupery's 'The Little Prince' (1943) US first, which has its own well-documented points: salmon (not blue) cloth, a 5-line colophon on the final page [p.94], no further printings stated on the copyright page, and a first-issue dust jacket with the printed price and the 386 Fourth Avenue address." ], "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/publishers/reynal-hitchcock" }, { "slug": "rinehart-co", "name": "Rinehart & Company", "category": "vintage-us", "region": "US", "era": "1929-1960", "idMethods": [ "The primary tell of a first printing is a colophon in a circle on the copyright page: 'FR' in a circle for Farrar & Rinehart (1929-1946) and 'R' in a circle for Rinehart & Co. (1946-1960). The colophon was simply REMOVED on later printings.", "Subsequent printings are identified by the ABSENCE of the colophon, not by any added printing statement. Per ILAB and Quill & Brush, subsequent printings were NOT otherwise noted on the copyright page.", "A secondary (less consistently documented) practice on some Rinehart titles is the year of publication beneath the publisher's name at the foot of the title page, or a 'This book, first published 19.., is printed...' line on the copyright page; treat this as supplementary corroboration, not the definitive test." ], "notablePoints": [ "Lineage: Farrar & Rinehart (1929-1946) -> Rinehart & Co. (1946-1960) -> merged into Holt, Rinehart & Winston (1960). The circled colophon differs accordingly: FR vs. R.", "The cleanest tell is the PRESENCE of the circled colophon (FR or R) on the copyright page, not a 'first published 19..' sentence. A copy lacking the colophon is a later printing.", "There is generally NO later-printing notice; do not rely on the presence of a printing statement to disqualify a first. Absence of the colophon is the disqualifier." ], "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/publishers/rinehart-co" }, { "slug": "rio-grande-books", "name": "Rio Grande Books / LPD Press", "category": "southwest-nm", "region": "southwest", "era": "", "idMethods": [ "ISBN prefixes 0-9641542 and 1-936744", "Los Ranchos de Albuquerque / Albuquerque address", "“First edition” statement typical; otherwise negative-evidence", "Most titles are single-printing" ], "notablePoints": [ "Dual-imprint structure (Rio Grande Books and LPD Press) sometimes both appear on the copyright page. Santero traditions, regional history, and the New Mexico Book Awards." ], "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/publishers/rio-grande-books" }, { "slug": "riverhead-books", "name": "Riverhead Books", "category": "us-trade", "region": "US", "era": "1994–present", "idMethods": [ "States 'First Edition' on the copyright page AND uses a descending number line ending in 1.", "A true first carries both the 'First Edition' statement and the 1; later printings strip the statement and/or shift the lowest number.", "Penguin-family typography/colophon (Penguin device) on spine/title page in later years.", "No price-clip rule peculiarities; standard PRH-era jacket flap pricing." ], "notablePoints": [ "Founded 1994 (originally under Putnam Berkley, then Penguin Putnam); literary fiction and narrative nonfiction (Khaled Hosseini's The Kite Runner, Junot Díaz, Anne Lamott).", "Now an imprint of Penguin Publishing Group within Penguin Random House.", "Modern, clean convention: 'First Edition' + line-to-1 — one of the most reliable to identify because the house only existed in the number-line era.", "Early Riverhead (mid-1990s) under Putnam used the same stated-First-Edition + number line approach." ], "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/publishers/riverhead-books" }, { "slug": "sarabande-books", "name": "Sarabande Books", "category": "poetry-literary", "region": "US", "era": "1994–present", "idMethods": [ "Modern convention: copyright page states 'First Edition' typically with a descending number line; lowest digit (1) = first printing.", "First has no later-printing notice." ], "notablePoints": [ "Founded 1994 in Louisville, Kentucky by Sarah Gorham and Jeffrey Skinner; nonprofit poetry and short-prose press.", "Awards-driven list (Kathryn A. Morton Prize in Poetry, Mary McCarthy Prize in Short Fiction); relatively young press so modern conventions apply throughout.", "Chapbooks (Quarternote series) are small-run and may be numbered/limited — check for a colophon." ], "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/publishers/sarabande-books" }, { "slug": "sasquatch-books", "name": "Sasquatch Books", "category": "regional-specialty", "region": "US", "era": "1986–present", "idMethods": [ "Number line on copyright page; first printing shows complete descending line ending in 1", "'First Edition' / 'First printing [year]' statement appears on many titles", "Seattle regional nonfiction/lifestyle/cookbook publisher founded 1986 (out of Seattle Weekly); conventional modern identification", "Printing/edition statement and number line should be read together" ], "notablePoints": [ "Primarily Pacific Northwest / Western US regional nonfiction, field guides, and cookbooks — frequently revised, so distinguish a 'second edition' (revised content) from a later 'printing' of the same edition", "Revised editions are usually explicitly stated ('Second Edition, Revised'); a revised edition is a different book bibliographically than a first", "No house-specific point of issue" ], "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/publishers/sasquatch-books" }, { "slug": "scholastic-press", "name": "Scholastic (Scholastic Press / Arthur A. Levine Books)", "category": "childrens-ya", "region": "US", "era": "1920–present (Scholastic Press trade imprint 1990s onward)", "idMethods": [ "Full number line on copyright page; first printing includes/begins effectively with '1' — Scholastic uses interleaved year/printing strings (e.g. '1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2' followed by year codes). If the printing portion does not reach 1, it is a later printing", "Frequently states the edition: e.g. 'First American edition, October 1998' (Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone)", "Watch for the small 'Printed in the U.S.A. 23' style line; combine the stated edition line with the number line" ], "notablePoints": [ "Harry Potter US firsts (Arthur A. Levine/Scholastic) are the marquee modern children's points-of-issue: Sorcerer's Stone true first = full number line with 1 present AND 'First American edition, October 1998' on copyright page", "Scholastic Book Clubs / Scholastic Book Fairs editions are NOT trade firsts — they often carry distinct ISBNs, 'SCHOLASTIC' club markings, no price, and a different printing string; a giant source of confusion for HP and Captain Underpants", "Arthur A. Levine left in 2019 to found Levine Querido (independent, distributed by Chronicle) — post-2019 'Levine' books are a different company" ], "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/publishers/scholastic-press" }, { "slug": "secker-and-warburg", "name": "Secker & Warburg (Martin Secker & Warburg)", "category": "uk-commonwealth", "region": "UK", "era": "1910 (Martin Secker) / 1936-present (Secker & Warburg)", "idMethods": [ "Pre-1940s: firsts either carried NO statement or occasionally \"First published [Year]\" with no additional printings listed", "1940s onward: consistently state \"First published [Year]\" on the copyright page of firsts with NO additional impressions listed (later printings add lines)", "First printing = statement present AND clean copyright page with no reprint notations", "Modern era: number line under Random House lineage" ], "notablePoints": [ "George Orwell's UK publisher from 'Animal Farm' (1945) and 'Nineteen Eighty-Four' (1949) — both have well-documented dust-jacket points (1984: red vs green jacket variants, both issued)", "Also Thomas Mann (English translations), Angus Wilson, Melvyn Bragg", "Martin Secker (pre-merger) and Secker & Warburg should not be conflated" ], "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/publishers/secker-and-warburg" }, { "slug": "shasta-publishers", "name": "Shasta Publishers", "category": "science-fiction-fantasy", "region": "US", "era": "1947–c.1957", "idMethods": [ "Shasta first editions are identified by an explicit 'First Edition' statement printed on the copyright page (a positive notation), NOT by the absence of later-printing language. Standard reference: the copyright page reads 'First Edition' (so stated). Example: the three Heinlein Future History titles (The Man Who Sold the Moon, The Green Hills of Earth, Revolt in 2100) all carry this statement, making Shasta easier to verify than Fantasy Press.", "Confirm physical issue points where documented per title (e.g., boards with cloth shelf back on the Heinlein titles) and a correct-state first-issue dust jacket with the original printed price; jacket art alone is not a reliable first-edition test.", "It is true that Shasta rarely reprinted, so most titles exist in a single print run — but treat this as corroboration, not the primary identification method. Verify the explicit copyright-page statement first and cross-check against a title-specific bibliography." ], "notablePoints": [ "Founded 1947 by Erle Korshak, T. E. Dikty, and Mark Reinsberg, Chicago-area SF fans (this point is accurate). First book was E. F. Bleiler's reference work The Checklist of Fantastic Literature (1948); operated to c.1957, ~19 titles.", "Shasta published Heinlein's early Future History FICTION collections (The Man Who Sold the Moon 1950, The Green Hills of Earth, Revolt in 2100) — these are fiction, not 'nonfiction.' The claim it published the Bleiler/Dikty 'Best Science Fiction Stories' anthologies is WRONG: those annuals were published by Frederick Fell (1949 onward). Shasta's Bleiler link was the 1948 Checklist, a separate reference book.", "The 'L. Ron Hubbard Kingslayer project' as the collapse-era debacle is WRONG. The notorious episode was the 1953 Shasta/Pocket Books novel CONTEST won by Philip Jose Farmer's 'I Owe for the Flesh' — the prize money was never paid and the winning book was never published, contributing to Shasta's financial demise. 'Kingslayer' is a 1949 Hubbard collection published by Fantasy Publishing Company (FPCI), not Shasta. (Shasta separately turned down a Hubbard Dianetics book.)", "The claim that ALL early Shasta titles featured Hannes Bok jackets is overstated/incorrect. Bok illustrated several prominent early jackets (The Wheels of If, Slaves of Sleep, Kinsmen of the Dragon), and Shasta was noted for fine multicolor jackets, but other artists were also used. Bok art is NOT a reliable blanket attribution aid." ], "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/publishers/shasta-publishers" }, { "slug": "simon-schuster", "name": "Simon & Schuster", "category": "us-trade", "region": "trade", "era": "", "idMethods": [ "Stated \"First Edition\" (1952–present)", "Number line added from the 1970s", "Later printings always noted" ], "notablePoints": [ "Later printings are always noted, which makes the positive statement + number line combination reliable." ], "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/publishers/simon-schuster" }, { "slug": "simon-schuster-byr", "name": "Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers (S&S Children's)", "category": "childrens-ya", "region": "US", "era": "1924–present (children's division mid-20th c. onward)", "idMethods": [ "S&S house convention: full descending number line ending in 1 on the copyright page (S&S has long relied on the number line rather than always wording 'First Edition')", "Many S&S children's firsts state 'First Edition' AND carry a number line to 1; the line is authoritative", "Beach Lane / Paula Wiseman / McElderry sub-imprints all use the parent S&S number-line convention" ], "notablePoints": [ "S&S Children's absorbed Atheneum and Margaret K. McElderry; those imprint names persist on title pages but printing is determined by the S&S number line", "Little Simon (board books) and Aladdin (paperback reprints) are generally not where trade firsts originate", "Beach Lane Books (Allyn Johnston) is a notable contemporary picture-book imprint" ], "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/publishers/simon-schuster-byr" }, { "slug": "soho-crime", "name": "Soho Crime / Soho Press", "category": "mystery-crime", "region": "US", "era": "1986-present", "idMethods": [ "Modern descending number line on the copyright page; a first printing shows the full line ending in '1' (e.g., '10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1'). Lowest digit present = the printing.", "Often accompanied by a 'First published in the United States ...' or 'First edition' statement; rely on the number line as the controlling signal.", "Soho Crime hardcovers typically carry a matching price on the jacket flap; price-clipped or remainder marks indicate handling, not state." ], "notablePoints": [ "Founded 1986 (Soho Press); Soho Crime line specializes in international/atmospheric crime (Cara Black, Qiu Xiaolong, Peter Lovesey reprints).", "Some Soho Crime titles appeared first in the UK or originating country; the US 'first' is then a first US/first-thus, not the true world first — note the copyright-page 'first published' wording.", "Trade-paperback originals exist for parts of the list; a paperback original is its own first, not a 'reprint' of a hardcover." ], "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/publishers/soho-crime" }, { "slug": "st-martins-press", "name": "St. Martin's Press", "category": "us-trade", "region": "US", "era": "1952–present", "idMethods": [ "States 'First Edition' on the copyright page WITH a descending number line ending in 1 ('10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1').", "Reliable test: explicit 'First Edition' statement together with the number-line 1.", "Pre-modern St. Martin's: first printings identified by absence of later-printing statements plus any 'First Edition' wording.", "Minotaur and Thomas Dunne (imprints) carry their own imprint name on the title page but use the same SMP/Macmillan convention." ], "notablePoints": [ "Founded 1952 as the US arm of UK's Macmillan; now part of Macmillan (Holtzbrinck) trade group.", "Minotaur is the flagship mystery/crime imprint; Thomas Dunne Books was a prominent editor imprint (wound down 2020).", "Griffin is the trade-paperback REPRINT line — usually NOT a first.", "Watch for book-club editions of SMP mysteries: BCEs lack the number line / price and have a blind stamp or dot on the rear board." ], "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/publishers/st-martins-press" }, { "slug": "stanford-university-press", "name": "Stanford University Press", "category": "university-academic", "region": "US", "era": "1925–present", "idMethods": [ "Copyright page notes later printings/editions; a first printing shows only the copyright line (no later-printing statement). Modern titles carry a number line where '1' = first printing.", "Stanford copyright pages often print 'Last figure below indicates year of this printing' followed by a year line and/or a separate printing-number line — read both.", "Revised editions are explicitly numbered and dated." ], "notablePoints": [ "The dual 'year line + printing line' on the copyright page is a common academic format; the lowest figures present indicate the first printing.", "Standard convention: later printings marked rather than the first affirmatively stated for older books." ], "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/publishers/stanford-university-press" }, { "slug": "subterranean-press", "name": "Subterranean Press", "category": "science-fiction-fantasy", "region": "US", "era": "1995–present", "idMethods": [ "Trade first edition: copyright-page number line with '1' present and no additional printings listed", "Limited states identified by a signed limitation/signature sheet near the front giving the print run; issued in NUMBERED (signed, e.g. /250, /500, /1000) and more-exclusive LETTERED states (typically 26 copies A–Z), often with slipcase or traycase", "Lettered copies are the top state; the limitation statement text and the hand-applied letter/number are the definitive tell" ], "notablePoints": [ "Founded 1995 (Bill Schafer); high-end SF/F/horror collectibles (King, Gaiman, Martin, Joe Hill)", "Many releases are simultaneous trade + numbered + lettered — 'true first' depends on which state collectors seek; the trade hardcover is the textual first, the lettered is the prestige first", "No second printings of lettered editions" ], "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/publishers/subterranean-press" }, { "slug": "sun-and-moon-press", "name": "Sun & Moon Press", "category": "poetry-literary", "region": "US", "era": "1980s–late 1990s (Green Integer 1999–)", "idMethods": [ "Late-20th-century convention: copyright page states 'First Edition' and frequently carries 'Sun & Moon Classics' series number; a descending number line may be present on later titles.", "First has no later-printing notice; series number fixes the title in the Classics line.", "Successor Green Integer titles bear that imprint and a separate numbered-series scheme." ], "notablePoints": [ "Founded by Douglas Messerli (with Howard N. Fox) in 1976 as a magazine, becoming Sun & Moon Press in the 1980s (College Park, MD / Los Angeles); avant-garde/Language poetry and translation.", "Published Language poets (Bernstein, Hejinian's My Life, Coolidge) and modernist reprints; the numbered 'Sun & Moon Classics' series is the key bibliographic spine.", "After Sun & Moon wound down (~late 1990s), Messerli founded Green Integer (1999) — do not conflate the two imprints; a Green Integer copy is not a Sun & Moon first." ], "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/publishers/sun-and-moon-press" }, { "slug": "sunstone-press", "name": "Sunstone Press", "category": "southwest-nm", "region": "southwest", "era": "", "idMethods": [ "Sun-stone petroglyph logo", "Stated “First edition” or negative-evidence", "Number line on later titles", "Offset vs. print-on-demand paper stock" ], "notablePoints": [ "Original offset printings (c.1970s–2005) feel different from later print-on-demand reissues, which use brighter, thicker, toner-printed stock even when the cover and copyright page look identical." ], "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/publishers/sunstone-press" }, { "slug": "ten-speed-press", "name": "Ten Speed Press", "category": "regional-specialty", "region": "US", "era": "1971–present (PRH/Crown-owned 2009–)", "idMethods": [ "Independent era (1971–2009): number line on copyright page, first printing shows the full descending line ending in 1; many titles also state 'First Edition' or 'First printing'", "Post-2009: acquired by Crown / Random House (now Penguin Random House); identification follows PRH/Crown conventions — number line ending in 1 plus stated 'First Edition' on the copyright page", "Berkeley, CA, founded 1971 by Phil Wood; cookbooks, reference, humor, the famous 'What Color Is Your Parachute?' annual", "For annual/serially revised titles, edition/year statement matters more than printing" ], "notablePoints": [ "Ownership change is the key era caveat: pre-2009 = independent Berkeley imprint, 2009+ = Crown/PRH imprint — title page and copyright-page boilerplate change accordingly", "'What Color Is Your Parachute?' is revised annually; a 'first edition' means little without the year — collect by content year", "Sister imprints Celestial Arts and Tricycle Press (children's) used the same conventional identification", "No idiosyncratic house point of issue" ], "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/publishers/ten-speed-press" }, { "slug": "texas-am-university-press", "name": "Texas A&M University Press", "category": "regional-specialty", "region": "US", "era": "1974–present", "idMethods": [ "University-press convention: copyright page typically states the printing via a number line (often the printing-and-year double line, e.g., a row of printing numbers over a row of years), first printing = lowest numbers present including 1", "Frequently 'First edition' is stated; scholarly/regional titles emphasize the EDITION (content) over the printing", "College Station, TX, founded 1974; Texas/Western Americana, natural history, military history", "Operates the Texas Book Consortium distributing other Texas regional presses — those carry their own imprint names but similar conventions" ], "notablePoints": [ "University-press double number line (printings over years) is common — read the printing row, not just a single descending line", "Regional natural-history and Texana titles get revised; distinguish 'second edition' (revised) from later printings", "No idiosyncratic house point beyond standard scholarly-press practice" ], "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/publishers/texas-am-university-press" }, { "slug": "bodley-head", "name": "The Bodley Head", "category": "uk-commonwealth", "region": "UK", "era": "1887-present", "idMethods": [ "From c.1929 onward, first editions state 'First published [Year]' or 'First published [Month, Year]' / 'First edition published [Month, Year]' on the copyright page; this copyright-page convention does NOT apply to the early John Lane / 1890s era (1887-c.1928)", "Later printings are noted with added impression/'Reprinted'/'Second impression' lines on the copyright page; for post-1929 books the absence of such reprint notation indicates a first printing", "Early Bodley Head / John Lane (1887-1920s) books carry no 'First published' statement and must be identified by title-page date, binding and issue points, advertisements, and standard author bibliographies (e.g., the John Lane 3/6 Christie novels) rather than a copyright-page statement", "Known exception: the first edition of John Cheever's 'The Enormous Radio' (1953) bears a Roman numeral '1' with no first-edition statement, so the statement-plus-no-reprint-notation rule is not universally reliable", "Modern Bodley Head (Random House / Penguin Random House sibling) uses a printer's number line; the lowest digit present (a line ending in or containing 1) indicates a first printing" ], "notablePoints": [ "Early Bodley Head (John Lane, 1890s) is famous for 'The Yellow Book' (1894-97) and 1890s aesthetic/decadent-movement design (Aubrey Beardsley)", "Published Agatha Christie's first novel 'The Mysterious Affair at Styles' (UK, 21 Jan 1921) and her early novels under a Bodley Head contract", "Graham Greene was a director of The Bodley Head (c.1957/58-1968, under Max Reinhardt) and published several of his books there", "Published Maurice Sendak in the UK (Max Reinhardt era)", "Founded 1887 by John Lane and Elkin Mathews; acquired by Random House in 1987 and now a Penguin Random House imprint", "Month is sometimes included in the post-1929 'First published' statement, useful for dating; not present in pre-1929 books" ], "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/publishers/bodley-head" }, { "slug": "doubleday-crime-club", "name": "The Crime Club / Doubleday Crime Club", "category": "mystery-crime", "region": "US", "era": "1928-1991", "idMethods": [ "Follows parent Doubleday house practice: word 'First Edition' on the copyright page denotes a first printing; the statement is removed on later printings (true for most of the run).", "Gutter/printer dating code at the foot of the last page of text is the most reliable tool. Early period (to ~1958) used a numeric week code (1-52). From early 1959 to 1987 a LETTER prefix was added for year (A=1959, B=1960 ... AA=1985), so a first printing should carry the code matching the stated publication year — a later year-letter on a 'First Edition'-stated book signals a later printing or remainder.", "Crime Club 'Bullseye' symbols (skull = homicide/humor, owl = suspense, gun/pistol = fast action, etc.), introduced 1943 by editor Isabelle Taylor, printed on spine and on the bound-in blurb — useful for series authentication and dating.", "Definitive reference: Ellen Nehr, 'Doubleday Crime Club Compendium 1928-1991', which gives jacket/binding points title-by-title." ], "notablePoints": [ "The Crime Club was a Doubleday imprint (1928-1991), not an independent house; identification piggybacks on Doubleday conventions, with the wrinkle that 'First Edition' was sometimes retained on later printings late in the run — cross-check the gutter code.", "Book Club editions are a major confusion: Doubleday's own Dollar Mystery Guild / Detective Book Club reprints look similar but lack 'First Edition' AND have blind-stamped board dimples or gutter codes that don't match the first-printing year; BCEs are usually cheaper paper and smaller.", "Jackets are everything for value here — many points of issue are jacket price and rear-panel ads, not the book block." ], "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/publishers/doubleday-crime-club" }, { "slug": "mysterious-press", "name": "The Mysterious Press", "category": "mystery-crime", "region": "US", "era": "1975-present", "idMethods": [ "Copyright page states 'First Printing' (often with month and year) plus a descending number line that retains a '1' for the first printing — both present on a true first.", "As the imprint moved through corporate parents (independent → Warner Books → Grand Central / Hachette), follow the prevailing parent's number-line convention; the lowest number present indicates the printing.", "Early independent Mysterious Press (founded 1975 by Otto Penzler) issued numbered/limited signed editions of some titles — look for the limitation page/colophon." ], "notablePoints": [ "Distinct from the related 'Otto Penzler Books' and the Armchair Detective Library; don't conflate imprints.", "Some sought-after firsts (Ellroy, Crumley, Block) exist in both a signed/limited state and a trade first — the limitation colophon distinguishes them.", "Because the imprint changed owners, a stated 'First Printing' should be cross-checked against the number line; a full line with '1' is the safest confirmation." ], "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/publishers/mysterious-press" }, { "slug": "world-publishing", "name": "The World Publishing Company", "category": "vintage-us", "region": "US", "era": "1905-1980s", "idMethods": [ "PRIMARY METHOD (the convention omits this): World Publishing typically printed a code on the TITLE PAGE indicating impression and print date. A first printing shows a bare code such as 'WP 9-50' (= printed Sept 1950; actual publication often 1-2 months later). Variants include 'WP363', 'FD566', 'BPWP865'.", "Later printings are signaled by a NUMBER PREFIXED to that title-page code, e.g. '3HC1058' = 3rd printing, printed Oct 1958. Absence of a leading number on the code supports a first printing.", "Some titles also state 'First Edition' or 'First Printing' on the copyright page (per Quill & Brush), so a copyright-page statement CAN corroborate a first — but it is secondary to and should be cross-checked against the title-page code; do not rely on copyright-page statements alone.", "Confirm the title is a World ORIGINAL, not a reprint: most Tower Books and Forum Books titles are reprints. (Known Tower Books first-edition exceptions: Raymond Chandler's 'Red Wind' and 'Spanish Blood', marked 'First Printing (Month, Year)'.)", "Treat the claim that 'later titles adopted a number line with 1 present' as UNVERIFIED/likely incorrect for World — no evidence found that World used a Scribner/Random-House-style number line; the leading-digit title-page code was its later-printing signal." ], "notablePoints": [ "Cleveland-based (later added a New York office); best known for affordable reprint lines — Tower Books (1940, 49-cent hardcovers) and Forum Books (1942, low-priced reprints) — and for Webster's New World Dictionary (first ed. 1951/1953). Distinguish reprint imprints from true trade firsts.", "Because much of World's output was reprints, Bibles, and reference, confirm a title was a World ORIGINAL before applying first-edition logic.", "Acquired by The Times Mirror Company in 1962; sold to Collins (UK) in 1974; in 1980 Collins broke up World — dictionary line to Simon & Schuster, children's line to Putnam, Bible division to Riverside — dispersing the trade list.", "House practice is less rigorously documented than marquee firms and the title-page printing code is the most reliable World-specific signal — verify points title-by-title, cross-referencing the code, copyright page, and a reference such as McBride or Quill & Brush." ], "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/publishers/world-publishing" }, { "slug": "thomas-y-crowell", "name": "Thomas Y. Crowell Company", "category": "vintage-us", "region": "US", "era": "1870s-1970s", "idMethods": [ "First editions carry only the copyright notice on the copyright page, with NO printing statement and no later-printing notation. The defining tell is the ABSENCE of any 'Second/Third Printing' (etc.) legend under the copyright — Crowell identified its books by marking subsequent printings, not by marking firsts.", "Reprints are flagged by a printing legend beneath the copyright (e.g., 'Second Printing,' 'Third Printing'); a book lacking such a legend is presumed a first. Crowell also commonly placed a colophon at the back of the book where later printings were noted (a practice continued as late as the 1980s).", "A number line ('10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1', with the '1' present indicating a first printing) appears on later/modern Crowell books — some sources note number rows may have been used as early as the 1940s. Per the publisher, an explicit 'first edition' statement plus copyright-page notation of later printings was adopted only around the late 1970s–early 1980s, NOT the late 1960s as claimed." ], "notablePoints": [ "The reliable tell for the earlier period is the ABSENCE of a later-printing legend (and/or an unmarked back-of-book colophon), NOT a 'matching date on title page and copyright page.' The claimed date-matching method is not supported by standard bookseller references; many Crowell title pages did not carry a date at all, so a date-match test is unreliable.", "Crowell was acquired and became part of Harper & Row in 1977/1978 (the Crowell imprint was absorbed into Harper & Row's juvenile/general lists), so the 'merged into Harper & Row (1970s)' point is broadly correct, though Crowell had earlier been part of Dun & Bradstreet's holdings.", "The convention as stated conflates Crowell's actual practice (note the reprint, not the first) with a Scribner-style 'A and seal' / matching-date approach used by other publishers." ], "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/publishers/thomas-y-crowell" }, { "slug": "tin-house-books", "name": "Tin House Books", "category": "poetry-literary", "region": "US", "era": "2005–present", "idMethods": [ "Modern convention: copyright page states 'First U.S. Edition' or 'First Edition' with a descending number line (1 present = first printing).", "First lacks later-printing notice." ], "notablePoints": [ "Founded 2005 in Portland, Oregon / Brooklyn (Win McCormack; Rob Spillman, Lee Montgomery) as the book arm of Tin House magazine.", "Poetry and literary fiction; distributed via W.W. Norton — later printings follow standard trade number-line conventions.", "Young press, conventions consistent." ], "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/publishers/tin-house-books" }, { "slug": "tor-books", "name": "Tor Books", "category": "us-trade", "region": "US", "era": "1980–present", "idMethods": [ "States 'First Edition' on the copyright page WITH a descending number line ending in 1 (e.g. '0 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1' or with the lowest being 1).", "Tor's reliable test: the explicit 'First Edition' line PLUS the number line — both must be present for a hardcover first.", "Mass-market paperback originals: 'First Tor edition (Month Year)' / 'First printing' with no later printings.", "Forge uses the identical convention (sister SF/historical imprint)." ], "notablePoints": [ "Founded 1980 by Tom Doherty; the leading US SF/fantasy house. Now part of Macmillan (Tom Doherty Associates), so follows Macmillan 'First Edition' + line-to-1 convention.", "Tor frequently issues a title FIRST as a hardcover then a mass-market; both can exist — the hardcover with 'First Edition' + line-to-1 is the true first.", "Tordotcom (novellas) and Tor Nightfire (horror) follow the same convention.", "Orb is a trade-paperback REPRINT line — usually NOT a first." ], "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/publishers/tor-books" }, { "slug": "touchstone", "name": "Touchstone", "category": "us-trade", "region": "US", "era": "1981–c.2019", "idMethods": [ "States 'First Touchstone edition (Year)' / 'First Edition' on the copyright page; for a first printing the number line descends to 1 (e.g. '10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1'). Note: S&S-family lines are often interleaved/odd-even split (e.g. '1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2') rather than a clean descending run — the rule is that the LOWEST number present indicates the printing, so the presence of 1 = first printing of that Touchstone edition.", "S&S-family convention: the verbose 'First [Imprint] edition' / explicit 'First Edition' wording on the copyright page is the reliable positive signal; absence of any later-printing statement combined with a 1 in the line supports a first printing.", "Many Touchstone titles are trade-paperback editions — confirm whether it is the FIRST appearance of the work or a reprint of an earlier S&S/Scribner/other hardcover. A 'First Touchstone edition' is the first printing of the TOUCHSTONE edition, which is frequently NOT the first edition of the work.", "Caveat that applies to all S&S imprints: a number line beginning/ending in 1 can still sit on a copyright page that explicitly states 'revised edition' or 'second edition' — always read the full copyright/title page, not just the line, before calling it a first." ], "notablePoints": [ "Touchstone was Simon & Schuster's trade-paperback imprint, founded in 1970 (NOT 1981) — originally paired as 'Touchstone/Fireside.' The claimed 1981 founding date is incorrect.", "The imprint was discontinued in December 2018 (NOT 'c.2019'); it survives only as a backlist imprint. Minor but worth correcting.", "Because it was largely a paperback line, a 'first Touchstone edition' is often a SECOND (or later) edition of a title already published in S&S/Scribner hardcover — distinguish first edition of the work from first Touchstone printing. (This point is correct.)", "Fireside was the sibling trade-paper imprint (self-help/diet/health/reference); the two were rebranded to just 'Touchstone' in 2010, and 'Fireside' was briefly revived in 2016 for the Ladybird 'Grown-Up Guides' series. Same number-line convention applies. (Correct, with added nuance.)", "Part of Simon & Schuster. (Correct.)" ], "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/publishers/touchstone" }, { "slug": "underwood-miller", "name": "Underwood-Miller", "category": "science-fiction-fantasy", "region": "US", "era": "c.1976–1994 (joint imprint)", "idMethods": [ "Editions identified by the limitation/colophon statement: many titles issued in trade plus signed/numbered and sometimes lettered states — the limitation leaf gives the run", "First printings indicated by absence of later-printing notation; the publisher's name 'Underwood-Miller' (joint era) vs. later solo imprints helps date the state", "Match correct binding/slipcase as specified for the limited issue" ], "notablePoints": [ "Tim Underwood and Chuck Miller partnership (c.1976–early 1990s); definitive collectible hardcovers of Jack Vance, Philip K. Dick, Roger Zelazny, Stephen King nonfiction", "After the partnership dissolved, Underwood and Miller continued separately (Underwood Books; Miller's later imprints) — joint 'Underwood-Miller' imprint marks the classic era", "The Jack Vance hardcovers are especially sought; verify signed/numbered limitation state via the colophon" ], "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/publishers/underwood-miller" }, { "slug": "university-arizona-press", "name": "University of Arizona Press", "category": "university-academic", "region": "southwest", "era": "", "idMethods": [ "ISBN prefix 978-0-8165", "Negative-evidence on 1959–early-1970s titles", "Number line consistently from c.1985" ], "notablePoints": [ "Successor volumes (e.g., Asteroids → Asteroids II) are new works, not revised editions of the original." ], "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/publishers/university-arizona-press" }, { "slug": "university-of-california-press", "name": "University of California Press", "category": "university-academic", "region": "US", "era": "1893–present (number lines standard later 20th c.)", "idMethods": [ "First printings state 'First Edition' or carry the copyright line alone with no later-printing notice; subsequent printings/editions are noted on the copyright page.", "Modern UC Press titles use a number line on the copyright page; '1' present = first printing.", "Revised editions give the original and revised publication dates." ], "notablePoints": [ "Like most academic presses, UC Press historically denoted LATER printings rather than stamping the first — absence of a reprint notice is the working signal for older books.", "Many UC Press regional/natural-history titles are reprinted repeatedly with the same copyright year; use the number line.", "Luminos titles are open-access digital-first — print copies are print-on-demand and not collectible 'first printings' in the traditional sense." ], "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/publishers/university-of-california-press" }, { "slug": "university-of-chicago-press", "name": "University of Chicago Press", "category": "university-academic", "region": "US", "era": "1891–present (impression-line style mid-20th c.; number lines later)", "idMethods": [ "Copyright page typically prints a sequence of edition/printing/year codes. Older Chicago books show two date rows: a row of EDITION years and a row of IMPRESSION/printing years; the earliest impression year present indicates the printing date — later printings strip the earliest figures.", "Statement of printing: e.g., 'Published 19xx' / 'First Edition' on first printings; 'Second Impression,' 'Third Impression' for later runs.", "Modern Chicago titles use a number line on the copyright page; a line including '1' = first printing.", "Chicago's own house style (the Chicago Manual) prescribes the impression-line format, so its books are unusually consistent — read the impression line at the foot of the copyright page." ], "notablePoints": [ "The distinctive Chicago 'impression year' line (a row of years, lowest = current printing) is the key tell on mid-20th-century books and can be confused with a number line — read it as impression dates, not a 1-10 sequence.", "Phoenix Books (from 1956) and Midway Reprints are paperback/reprint lines — not first printings of the original cloth first edition.", "Chicago publishes many heavily revised reference works (e.g., the Chicago Manual of Style itself); each 'edition' is numbered and dated — match the edition number to the first." ], "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/publishers/university-of-chicago-press" }, { "slug": "university-of-minnesota-press", "name": "University of Minnesota Press", "category": "university-academic", "region": "US", "era": "1925–present", "idMethods": [ "Copyright page carries a number line on modern titles ('10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1'); lowest number present = printing, '1' = first printing.", "First printings otherwise show only the copyright line; later printings/editions are noted.", "Revised editions are explicitly dated and numbered." ], "notablePoints": [ "Strong critical-theory and translation list (Deleuze, Theory and History of Literature series); many translations are reprinted — check the number line.", "Standard academic convention; number line is the most reliable modern signal." ], "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/publishers/university-of-minnesota-press" }, { "slug": "university-of-nebraska-press", "name": "University of Nebraska Press", "category": "university-academic", "region": "US", "era": "1941–present (Bison imprint 1961–present)", "idMethods": [ "Copyright page states 'First Nebraska printing' / 'First printing: 19xx' and lists later Bison/Nebraska printings; absence of a later-printing line = first printing of that edition.", "Modern titles carry a number line; '1' present = first printing.", "Reprints of older works state the original publication date and the 'First Bison Books printing' date." ], "notablePoints": [ "CRITICAL: Bison Books (founded 1961) is largely a REPRINT/paperback imprint of Western Americana and previously published works — a Bison Books copy is typically NOT the first edition of the work; its copyright page will say 'First Bison Books printing 19xx' under an earlier original copyright. Collect the original cloth first edition, not the Bison reissue, unless the Bison printing IS the first appearance.", "Bison Classic Editions are explicitly reissues.", "Potomac Books (military/intelligence/sports) was acquired by Nebraska and may show pre-Nebraska printing history." ], "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/publishers/university-of-nebraska-press" }, { "slug": "unm-press", "name": "University of New Mexico Press", "category": "southwest-nm", "region": "southwest", "era": "", "idMethods": [ "ISBN prefix 978-0-8263", "Negative-evidence (no later-printing language) on pre-1970 titles", "Number line from c.1980" ], "notablePoints": [ "When a hardcover and a simultaneous paperback exist (standard from the mid-1970s), the hardcover in dust jacket is the collector's first.", "A “Revised and expanded edition” (e.g., deBuys's Enchantment and Exploitation) is a separate collecting object, not a reprint." ], "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/publishers/unm-press" }, { "slug": "university-of-north-carolina-press", "name": "University of North Carolina Press", "category": "university-academic", "region": "US", "era": "1922–present", "idMethods": [ "First printings carry the copyright line with no later-printing notice; subsequent printings/editions are stated on the copyright page. Modern titles add a number line where '1' = first printing.", "Copyright page commonly prints a manufacturing/printing line; the lowest figure indicates the printing.", "Revised editions are explicitly dated and numbered." ], "notablePoints": [ "Enduring Editions are print-on-demand reissues of backlist titles — not first printings.", "Strong Southern history/Civil War list; many titles reprint frequently with an unchanged copyright year — use the number line.", "Standard academic later-printing-noted convention for older books." ], "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/publishers/university-of-north-carolina-press" }, { "slug": "university-oklahoma-press", "name": "University of Oklahoma Press", "category": "university-academic", "region": "southwest", "era": "", "idMethods": [ "ISBN prefix 0-8061", "Interlocked OU monogram", "Number line (1970s+)", "Edition statements / printing history (older titles)" ], "notablePoints": [ "Home of the Civilization of the American Indian series (250+ volumes from 1932) and the Western Frontier Library — popular titles reprint often." ], "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/publishers/university-oklahoma-press" }, { "slug": "university-of-texas-press", "name": "University of Texas Press", "category": "university-academic", "region": "US", "era": "1950–present", "idMethods": [ "First printings state 'First Edition' (or 'First edition, 19xx') on the copyright page on many titles, or carry the copyright line alone; later printings/editions are noted.", "Modern UT Press titles use a number line on the copyright page; '1' present = first printing.", "Revised/expanded editions are dated and numbered." ], "notablePoints": [ "Strong Latin American, Texana, film, and Mexican-American studies lists; many regional titles reprint frequently with an unchanged copyright year — rely on the number line or 'first edition' statement, not the copyright date.", "Standard academic later-printing-noted convention for pre-number-line books." ], "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/publishers/university-of-texas-press" }, { "slug": "university-texas-press", "name": "University of Texas Press", "category": "regional-specialty", "region": "US", "era": "1950–present", "idMethods": [ "Scholarly-press identification: 'First edition' stated on copyright page; number line (often printing-over-year double line) where present, first printing shows 1 and earliest year", "Austin, TX, founded 1950; Latin American studies, Texana, Western/borderlands, film", "Distinguish edition (content) from printing; revised editions stated explicitly" ], "notablePoints": [ "Long-lived scholarly titles reach many printings; the printing row of the number line is the tell", "Borderlands/Chicano studies and Latin American titles are the notable collecting areas; identification is conventional scholarly-press", "No proprietary house key" ], "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/publishers/university-texas-press" }, { "slug": "vanguard-press", "name": "Vanguard Press", "category": "vintage-us", "region": "US", "era": "1926-1988", "idMethods": [ "No printing statement on first editions; Vanguard had no 'First Edition' designation and sometimes even failed to note subsequent printings, so absence of a printing statement is the chief (weak) indicator for pre-1970s titles.", "From the 1970s onward: Vanguard instituted a number row (number line) on the copyright page; a sequence containing '1' indicates a first printing.", "The number row may have been abandoned for some titles in the mid-1980s, so for that period rely again on the absence of a later-printing statement.", "Identification is copyright-page based ONLY; Vanguard does NOT use a number at the foot of the last page. High-spot titles (Dr. Seuss, early Joyce Carol Oates) should be confirmed against a title-specific bibliography rather than a generic publisher rule." ], "notablePoints": [ "Vanguard does NOT share the foot-of-last-page parenthetical numbering convention — that is D. Appleton & Co.'s method ('(1)' = first printing at the foot of the last page), not Vanguard's. Vanguard's points are on the copyright page.", "Published the first books of Dr. Seuss (And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street, 1937; The 500 Hats of Bartholomew Cubbins, 1938) and Joyce Carol Oates's early work (her first book plus ~20 more, including the 1970 National Book Award novel them) — high-spot titles warrant title-level verification.", "Sold to Random House in October 1988 after 62 years as an independent house (founded 1926, originally with Garland Fund backing)." ], "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/publishers/vanguard-press" }, { "slug": "victor-gollancz", "name": "Victor Gollancz", "category": "uk-commonwealth", "region": "UK", "era": "1927-present", "idMethods": [ "Pre-1984: NO first-edition statement was made — first printings carry no 'First published' line; ONLY later printings were noted (so absence of any printing statement = likely first, presence of a reprint note = later)", "From 1984 onward: began stating \"First published in [Year] by Victor Gollancz Ltd\" on the copyright page of firsts", "Modern Gollancz uses number lines; lowest digit = printing", "For pre-1984 titles, confirm via dust-jacket points, dated jackets, and absence of reprint notation rather than a positive statement" ], "notablePoints": [ "The famous plain bright-YELLOW dust jackets with red/black type are an instant Gollancz visual marker (esp. crime/SF)", "Pre-1984 'no statement on firsts' policy is a classic trap — collectors must rely on negative evidence and jacket/ad dating", "Orwell's early books, Daphne du Maurier, Kingsley Amis, John le Carré ('The Spy Who Came in from the Cold', 1963) were Gollancz", "Left Book Club editions (orange limp cloth) are NOT trade firsts" ], "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/publishers/victor-gollancz" }, { "slug": "gollancz", "name": "Victor Gollancz Ltd (incl. Gollancz SF)", "category": "science-fiction-fantasy", "region": "UK", "era": "1927–present (yellow-jacket era c.1927–mid-1980s)", "idMethods": [ "Classic British-house method: 'First published ' on the copyright/verso with NO later-printing or 'reprinted' statements; an unbroken impression line or absence of added impression dates confirms a first", "The distinctive plain YELLOW dust jacket with black + magenta typography (no pictorial art) is a strong era marker for firsts roughly 1920s–mid-1980s", "Match jacket: original unclipped yellow jacket with the correct price; later pictorial jackets (mid-1980s on) accompany the firsts of that later era", "Date on title/copyright page should agree with 'First published' year — added 'Second impression'/reprint lines indicate later states" ], "notablePoints": [ "Yellow jackets became almost synonymous with UK hardcover SF c.1961–mid-1980s; pictorial jackets phased in mid-1980s", "SF list proper introduced under Hilary Rubinstein after the 1961 UK edition of Amis's 'New Maps of Hell'", "SF/Fantasy Masterworks are reprint series — NOT firsts of the contained works", "Now part of the Orion Publishing Group (Hachette UK); the Gollancz SF imprint carries on", "Yellow jackets are fragile and fade/soil easily — condition and an unclipped price strongly affect first-edition value" ], "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/publishers/gollancz" }, { "slug": "viking-childrens", "name": "Viking Children's Books (Viking Junior Books) / Penguin Young Readers Group", "category": "childrens-ya", "region": "US", "era": "1933–present (Viking children's); Penguin number-line era 1980s–present", "idMethods": [ "Viking historical: stated 'First published in (Year) by The Viking Press' / 'Published by The Viking Press in (Year)'; in the 1980s a number row was added to LATER printings only — so a first lacks the number line in that transitional period", "Modern Penguin house style across the children's imprints: full descending number line ending in 1, often with a stated 'First Edition' / 'First American Edition'", "Philomel and Dutton (Penguin children's imprints) likewise use the Penguin number-line-to-1 convention" ], "notablePoints": [ "Viking published Ludwig Bemelmans' Madeline, Robert McCloskey (Make Way for Ducklings — Caldecott), Don Freeman's Corduroy, the original Eric Carle The Very Hungry Caterpillar (Philomel)", "TRANSITION TRAP: for 1980s Viking, presence of a number line can indicate a LATER printing, opposite of the modern rule — date by the 'First published' statement for that era", "Frederick Warne (Beatrix Potter) firsts have their own complex early-1900s points and predate Penguin ownership entirely", "All now consolidated under Penguin Young Readers (Penguin Random House)" ], "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/publishers/viking-childrens" }, { "slug": "viking-penguin", "name": "Viking Press / Penguin", "category": "us-trade", "region": "trade", "era": "", "idMethods": [ "“First Published by Viking in [Year]” statement (1937–present)", "On 1980s titles, a number line appears on later printings only" ], "notablePoints": [ "Counter-intuitive: a number line on a 1980s Viking usually signals a later printing, not a first." ], "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/publishers/viking-penguin" }, { "slug": "vintage-books", "name": "Vintage Books", "category": "us-trade", "region": "US", "era": "1954–present", "idMethods": [ "States 'First Vintage … Edition (Month Year)' on the copyright page with a descending number line ending in 1.", "Predominantly a trade-paperback REPRINT line — 'first Vintage edition' is usually NOT the first edition of the work.", "Trace true firsts to the original Knopf / Random House / Pantheon hardcover.", "Some titles (notably Vintage Contemporaries in the 1980s) were PAPERBACK ORIGINALS — those ARE firsts." ], "notablePoints": [ "Founded 1954 as Random House's quality trade-paperback imprint; now part of the Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group (PRH).", "Vintage Contemporaries (launched 1984, distinctive cover design) issued notable paperback originals — e.g. Jay McInerney's Bright Lights, Big City and Raymond Carver collections — which are collected as true firsts.", "Critical confusion: most Vintage editions are reprints; verify whether a given title was a Vintage original before calling it a first.", "Vintage Crime/Black Lizard reprints classic noir — reprints, not firsts." ], "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/publishers/vintage-books" }, { "slug": "norton", "name": "W. W. Norton", "category": "us-trade", "region": "trade", "era": "", "idMethods": [ "Stated \"First Edition\" plus a number line containing 1" ], "notablePoints": [ "Like HarperCollins, Norton sometimes leaves the first-edition statement on later printings — the number line is the tiebreaker." ], "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/publishers/norton" }, { "slug": "wave-books", "name": "Wave Books", "category": "poetry-literary", "region": "US", "era": "2005–present (Verse Press 2000–2005)", "idMethods": [ "Modern convention: copyright page states 'First Edition' with a descending number line; '1' present indicates the first printing.", "Distinctive minimalist design (heavy use of blind/letterpress-style covers); design is a house signature, not a printing point.", "First lacks later-printing notice." ], "notablePoints": [ "Founded 2005 in Seattle by Charlie Wright; absorbed/continued Verse Press (founded 2000, Matthew Zapruder/Joshua Beckman) — pre-2005 titles may bear the Verse Press imprint.", "Publishes Mary Ruefle, CAConrad, Eileen Myles, Dorothea Lasky; known for fine production and special signed/limited issues with rear colophons.", "Young press, so number-line/stated-first practice is consistent; Verse Press predecessor titles should be identified under that name." ], "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/publishers/wave-books" }, { "slug": "weidenfeld-and-nicolson", "name": "Weidenfeld & Nicolson", "category": "uk-commonwealth", "region": "UK", "era": "1949-present", "idMethods": [ "First editions state \"First published in Great Britain [Year] by Weidenfeld & Nicolson\" on the copyright page; later printings noted", "Modern W&N (Orion group) uses a number line ending in 1; lowest digit = printing", "First printing = statement present and/or number line ending in 1, with no later-edition notation", "Confirm absence of reprint/impression lines" ], "notablePoints": [ "Published the controversial UK first of Nabokov's 'Lolita' (1959), Saul Bellow (UK), Mary Renault, Antonia Fraser", "Founded 1949; now part of the Orion/Hachette group", "Number-line era applies to most of the modern list" ], "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/publishers/weidenfeld-and-nicolson" }, { "slug": "wesleyan-university-press", "name": "Wesleyan University Press", "category": "university-academic", "region": "US", "era": "1957–present (parenthetical-numeral tell pre-1980s; number row from the 1980s)", "idMethods": [ "States 'First Edition' or 'First Printing' on the copyright page of first editions, and notes subsequent printings.", "DISTINCTIVE older tell: pre-1980s Wesleyan books often carry a numeral in parentheses or brackets at the FOOT OF THE LAST PAGE — '(1)' = first printing, '(2)' = second printing, etc. — sometimes in place of a copyright-page statement.", "Since the 1980s, Wesleyan uses a number row/line (and a year row) on the copyright page to indicate printing and year; lowest figures present = first printing." ], "notablePoints": [ "The parenthetical numeral at the foot of the last printed page is the signature Wesleyan point of issue for mid-century books — check the very last page, not just the copyright page.", "Wesleyan Poetry Series is the prestige line (James Wright, Anne Sexton, James Dickey, Robert Bly, etc.) and the most collected — confirm the '(1)' or first-printing statement for true firsts.", "Don't mistake a later 'second printing' poetry volume (very common for award winners) for a first." ], "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/publishers/wesleyan-university-press" }, { "slug": "west-end-press", "name": "West End Press", "category": "southwest-nm", "region": "southwest", "era": "", "idMethods": [ "ISBN prefixes 0-931122 and 0-9826968", "Copyright year matching publication date", "Absence of later-printing notation; some titles state “First edition”" ], "notablePoints": [ "Founder Frank Crawford died in 2019. Distributed through the University of New Mexico Press." ], "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/publishers/west-end-press" }, { "slug": "collins", "name": "William Collins, Sons & Co. (Collins)", "category": "uk-commonwealth", "region": "UK", "era": "1819-1990 (independent); HarperCollins thereafter", "idMethods": [ "First editions either carry NO additional printing statement on the copyright page or state \"First published [Year]\" — practice was not fully consistent, so confirm with jacket/ad dating", "Later printings noted with impression lines; their absence supports a first", "Collins Crime Club titles: rely on dust-jacket advertisement dating and absence of reprint notation; Crime Club firsts have well-catalogued jacket points", "After 1990 (HarperCollins) follow HarperCollins number-line conventions" ], "notablePoints": [ "Collins Crime Club is the key collecting area: Agatha Christie's main UK publisher — Christie firsts are identified largely by FIRST-ISSUE DUST JACKETS and price, not always a clean copyright statement", "The inconsistent copyright-page practice makes jackets and advertisement dating essential for Collins firsts", "Fontana was the mass-market paperback line (not trade firsts)" ], "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/publishers/collins" }, { "slug": "william-heinemann", "name": "William Heinemann", "category": "uk-commonwealth", "region": "UK", "era": "1890-present", "idMethods": [ "1890-1921: year of publication printed on the TITLE PAGE of first editions; on later printings the title-page date was removed and a notice added to the copyright page (a title-page year is the first-printing tell for this era)", "From the 1920s onward: \"First published [Year]\" or \"First published in Great Britain [Year]\" stated on the copyright page, with later impressions noted beneath", "Modern Heinemann adopted number lines; lowest digit = printing", "First printing = statement present AND no list of subsequent impressions" ], "notablePoints": [ "Major literary house: Graham Greene, D.H. Lawrence, Somerset Maugham, John Masters, Anthony Burgess, Olivia Manning", "Early-era (pre-1921) reliance on the title-page date is unusual and a common source of error if collectors only check the copyright page", "Windmill Press colophon appears on many mid-century titles" ], "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/publishers/william-heinemann" }, { "slug": "william-morrow", "name": "William Morrow", "category": "us-trade", "region": "US", "era": "1926–present", "idMethods": [ "Pre-1973: usually printed 'First Printing (Month, Year)' on the copyright page and ALWAYS indicated later printings — so a first shows only the first-printing notation.", "Post-1973 / modern: states 'First Edition' AND uses a number line; the number row indicates year/printing, with the lowest number 1 present on a first.", "Modern HarperCollins-era Morrow: 'First Edition' + descending line ending in 1 is the reliable test.", "Absence of later-printing lines confirms a first across eras." ], "notablePoints": [ "Founded 1926 by William Morrow; acquired by Hearst, then by HarperCollins (1999). Now a HarperCollins imprint.", "The pre-1973 'First Printing (Month Year)' habit is a distinctive, reliable Morrow tell.", "Avon (acquired with Morrow) is the mass-market romance line — many Avon paperback originals are firsts.", "Watch for HarperCollins-era number line that can include a year-code digit; the presence of 1 is the key." ], "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/publishers/william-morrow" }, { "slug": "workman-publishing", "name": "Workman Publishing Company", "category": "regional-specialty", "region": "US", "era": "1968–present (HBG-owned 2021–)", "idMethods": [ "Number line on copyright page; a first printing shows the complete line including '1' (descending style typical, '10 9 8 7 ... 1')", "Many Workman trade nonfiction/calendar/gift titles omit an explicit 'First Edition' statement and rely on the number line alone — absence of a stated-first is normal, so the number line is the primary signal", "Workman self-distributed (including its imprints) until the 2021 Hachette Book Group acquisition; post-2021 titles follow HBG production norms", "Printing date / 'Printed in China' or printer note sometimes present but not an edition signal" ], "notablePoints": [ "Imprints Storey (how-to/country living), Timber (gardening/natural history), Artisan (illustrated/cookbooks), and Algonquin (literary) all use the same conventional number-line approach", "High-volume gift/reference titles are frequently reprinted; the absence of a low number on the line is the reliable tell for a later printing", "Do not expect a colophon device unique to Workman — there is no house point of issue" ], "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/publishers/workman-publishing" }, { "slug": "yale-university-press", "name": "Yale University Press", "category": "university-academic", "region": "US", "era": "1908–present (reprint-statement convention throughout; number lines added in later decades)", "idMethods": [ "Older/standard convention: the copyright page of a REPRINT states the date of first publication and lists subsequent printings/editions; a copy whose copyright page carries only the copyright line (no reprint or later-printing data) is a first printing.", "Revised editions always state the date of the original edition plus the revision — so any 'Second edition'/'Revised edition'/'Reprinted' language rules out a first printing of the first edition.", "Modern Yale titles include a number line on the copyright page; a line containing '1' marks the first printing.", "Some first printings explicitly state 'First published 19xx by Yale University Press' with no further printing history." ], "notablePoints": [ "Yale, like most academic presses, historically identified LATER printings rather than affirmatively stamping the first — so 'no reprint notice' is the operative signal for pre-number-line books.", "Watch dual US/UK imprints: Yale UK (London) and Yale New Haven may show different printing histories for the same title.", "Anchor Yale Bible commentary volumes are frequently revised/reissued — verify edition statements carefully." ], "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/publishers/yale-university-press" }, { "slug": "yolla-bolly-press", "name": "Yolla Bolly Press", "category": "fine-private-press", "region": "US", "era": "1975–c.2008", "idMethods": [ "Letterpress limited editions (Covelo, California); printed colophon with stated limitation, frequently SIGNED by the author and/or illustrator", "Original commissioned art, fine papers; deluxe vs. standard states distinguished by binding and extra signed prints stated in the colophon", "No number line — signed/numbered colophon identifies" ], "notablePoints": [ "Founded 1975 by James and Carolyn Robertson in Covelo, CA (named for the Yolla Bolly mountains); noted for collaborations issuing signed limited editions of contemporary American writers (e.g., Wallace Stegner, Wendell Berry, Barry Lopez)", "Author-signed colophons make these desirable association-quality firsts of the limited issue", "Some titles produced for trade publishers in a deluxe limited concurrent state", "Distinct from other California fine presses (Grabhorn/Arion) — a later, photo-offset-and-letterpress operation" ], "url": "https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/publishers/yolla-bolly-press" } ] }