4 Aimee Bender first editions are documented on this shelf, from The Girl in the Flammable Skirt (1998) to The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake (2010). Each linked guide gives the points of issue that separate a true first printing of that Aimee Bender 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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- The Girl in the Flammable Skirt — 1998 · DoubledayDoubleday copyright page states 'FIRST EDITION' with a full number line descending to 1; Doubleday anchor colophon. ISBN 0-385-49215-4 (9780385492157). Published July 1998. Bender's debut story collection and a New York Times Notable Book; the most collected Bender title, with signed and inscribed copies sought after. US Doubleday hardcover (1998) is the true first. Book-club editions are lighter, lack the number line and the printed flap price, and may show a small blind-stamped dot or square on the rear board.
- An Invisible Sign of My Own — 2000 · DoubledayDoubleday copyright page states 'FIRST EDITION' with a full number line descending to 1; Doubleday anchor colophon. Bender's first novel, following her 1998 story collection. A true first carries the unclipped flap price. US Doubleday hardcover (2000) is the true first. Book-club editions omit the number line and the flap price and may carry a rear-board blind stamp.
- Willful Creatures — 2005 · DoubledayDoubleday copyright page states 'FIRST EDITION' with a full number line descending to 1; Doubleday anchor colophon. Bender's second story collection (ISBN 0-385-50113-7). A true first carries the unclipped flap price. US Doubleday hardcover (2005) is the true first. Book-club copies lack the number line and the flap price.
- The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake — 2010 · DoubledayDoubleday, June 2010, ISBN 0385720963. The copyright page states 'FIRST EDITION' with a full number line descending to 1, beneath the Doubleday anchor colophon. Bound in tan and light-blue paper-covered boards lettered in silver foil, in a color pictorial dust jacket that retains its printed front-flap price. Bender's best-known novel. US Doubleday hardcover (June 2010, ISBN 0385720963) is the true first; the UK edition followed. A separate Powell's IndieSpensable issue exists in a lemon cloth slipcase with laid-in interview sheets. Book-club editions are lighter in weight and lack the number line and the printed flap price.
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