3 Adrian Tomine first editions are documented on this shelf, from Summer Blonde (2002) to Killing and Dying (2015). Each linked guide gives the points of issue that separate a true first printing of that Adrian Tomine title from later printings and book-club copies — the publisher and year to expect, the number-line or edition-statement conventions, and the tells that show up in online listings.
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- Summer Blonde — 2002 · Drawn & QuarterlyFirst book edition collecting Optic Nerve issues 5 through 8, Drawn & Quarterly, 2002, issued in both hardcover (with dust jacket) and softcover. A first printing carries no later-printing statement on the indicia; reprintings are noted there. The stories first appeared serially in the Optic Nerve comic-book issues; the 2002 Drawn & Quarterly volume is the first collected book edition. The hardcover and softcover were both first-edition states issued in 2002. No book-club edition; later printings are stated on the indicia.
- Shortcomings — 2007 · Drawn & QuarterlyFirst book edition: Montreal, Drawn & Quarterly, 2007, hardcover with dust jacket, ISBN 1897299168, collecting Optic Nerve issues 9 through 11 with black-and-white illustration. A first printing carries no additional-printing statement in the indicia, and the dust jacket retains its printed price. The floral pattern printed on the jacket recurs meaningfully by the book's final chapter. The material first appeared serially in Optic Nerve issues 9 through 11 (and was excerpted in McSweeney's Quarterly Concern number 13); the 2007 Drawn & Quarterly hardcover is the first book edition. No book-club edition; the later Drawn & Quarterly softcover and the Faber (UK, ISBN 0571233295) issue are separate later formats, not the first hardcover.
- Killing and Dying — 2015 · Drawn & QuarterlyFirst book edition: Drawn & Quarterly hardcover, 2015, bound in color pictorial boards under a printed translucent mylar dust jacket through which the boards show, with color pictorial endpapers. A first printing carries no later-printing statement on the indicia. Several of the six stories first appeared in Optic Nerve issues 12 through 14; the 2015 Drawn & Quarterly hardcover is the first collected book edition. No book-club edition.
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