# Is "Anno Dracula" by Kim Newman a First Edition?

> **Quick answer.** A first edition of Anno Dracula by Kim Newman (Simon & Schuster, London, 1992) is identified by: The true first is the Simon & Schuster (London) 1992 hardcover in cloth with dust jacket; L.W. UK Simon & Schuster, London, 1992 precedes the US Carroll & Graf, New York, 1993 hardcover; this is corroborated independently by Newman's official site (johnnyalucard.com, which lists S&S 1992 hardback then Carroll & Graf 1993 hardback), by L.W.

**Checklist — a true first has these:**
- The true first is the Simon & Schuster (London) 1992 hardcover in cloth with dust jacket
- L.W. Currey records the copyright-page statement 'First published in Great Britain by / Simon & Schuster Ltd in 1992', and the title page bears the multi-city imprint 'London, Sydney, New York, Tokyo, Singapore, Toronto'
- First printing carries the complete number line on the copyright page in addition to that statement
- ISBN 0-671-71780-4
- The jacket should be priced with the price present at the front flap (unclipped)
- UK stock of this period commonly shows page tanning, which is characteristic and not a printing point
- Publisher imprint reads Simon & Schuster, London

| | |
|---|---|
| Author | Kim Newman |
| Publisher | Simon & Schuster, London |
| Year | 1992 |
| True first | UK edition |
| Format | Hardcover (trade) |
| Key point | The true first is the Simon & Schuster (London) 1992 hardcover in cloth with dust jacket |
| Book-club edition exists? | No |

## Points of issue
The true first is the Simon & Schuster (London) 1992 hardcover in cloth with dust jacket; L.W. Currey records the copyright-page statement 'First published in Great Britain by / Simon & Schuster Ltd in 1992', and the title page bears the multi-city imprint 'London, Sydney, New York, Tokyo, Singapore, Toronto'. First printing carries the complete number line on the copyright page in addition to that statement; ISBN 0-671-71780-4. The jacket should be priced with the price present at the front flap (unclipped). UK stock of this period commonly shows page tanning, which is characteristic and not a printing point. CONTESTED POINT, flagged rather than asserted: L.W. Currey catalogs the title as printed 'ANNO-DRACULA' with a hyphen across two separate listings, and Wikipedia-derived text describes an 'errant hyphen' on the first edition that was discarded in later editions; however, Kim Newman's own official site gives the title unhyphenated, and AbeBooks dealers cataloging ISBN 0-671-71780-4 uniformly render it without a hyphen. The hyphen is therefore NOT confirmed as a reliable first-printing point and must not be relied on alone — verify against the copyright-page statement and number line instead.

## Is this the true first?
UK Simon & Schuster, London, 1992 precedes the US Carroll & Graf, New York, 1993 hardcover; this is corroborated independently by Newman's official site (johnnyalucard.com, which lists S&S 1992 hardback then Carroll & Graf 1993 hardback), by L.W. Currey, and by dealer listings describing 'First British edition, first printing'. Both the UK 1992 and the US 1993 are collected, the UK being the true first. The novel is itself an expansion of Newman's earlier novella Red Reign, so the 1992 book is the first appearance in expanded book form, not the first appearance of the material.

## Telling it from reprints & book-club editions
No book-club edition documented in the sources consulted. 'First thus' traps: the Pocket Books UK paperback (1993) and Avon US paperback (1994) are reprints; the Titan Books 2011 paperback and later printings add substantial new material — a new afterword by Newman, annotations, articles and alternate endings — making them textually distinct first-thus editions rather than firsts. Titan also issued a signed 30th-anniversary hardback in 2022, which is a modern limited edition, not a first.

## Source
New Mexico Literacy Project — Is *Anno Dracula* by Kim Newman a first edition? https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/anno-dracula
CC BY 4.0. Part of the Canonical First-Edition Points of Issue dataset (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/api/first-edition-titles.json). Last reviewed 2026-07-04.