3 Amos Oz first editions are documented on this shelf, from My Michael (Mikha'el Sheli) (1972) to A Tale of Love and Darkness (Sippur al Ahava ve-Hoshekh) (2004) across 3 different publishers. Each linked guide gives the points of issue that separate a true first printing of that Amos Oz 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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- My Michael (Mikha'el Sheli) — 1972 · Chatto & WindusFirst English edition, 1972, translated by Nicholas de Lange. Both the UK Chatto & Windus and the US Knopf (Borzoi colophon, FIRST AMERICAN EDITION statement) appeared in 1972, in cloth with dust jacket. The Hebrew original appeared in 1968. This was the first of de Lange's many translations of Oz. The 1972 issue is the first English edition. UK Chatto & Windus and US Knopf are near-simultaneous and precedence is not firmly documented, so verify by imprint and jacket on the copy in hand. Bantam and Vintage paperbacks are reprints. For the US first, confirm the Borzoi FIRST AMERICAN EDITION statement.
- Black Box (Kufsah Shehorah) — 1988 · Harcourt Brace JovanovichFirst English edition, translated by Nicholas de Lange, 1988, issued by Harcourt Brace Jovanovich in the US and Chatto & Windus in the UK. Epistolary novel. Cloth with dust jacket; the US printing carries a number line ending in 1 on the true first. Hebrew original published 1987. The 1988 English edition is the first in English. US HBJ and UK Chatto & Windus both appeared in 1988; confirm priority by imprint and copyright page rather than assuming. The novel won the Prix Femina Etranger. Later Vintage and Harvest paperbacks are reprints, not the first edition.
- A Tale of Love and Darkness (Sippur al Ahava ve-Hoshekh) — 2004 · HarcourtFirst English edition, translated by Nicholas de Lange, 2004, issued by Harcourt in the US and Chatto & Windus in the UK. Cloth with dust jacket; the US Harcourt printing carries a full number line ending in 1 on the true first. Memoir; the Hebrew original appeared in 2002. The 2004 English edition is the first in English. The US Harcourt and UK Chatto & Windus printings both appeared in 2004; the US Harcourt is generally treated as the first English-language edition, with the UK Chatto issue contemporaneous. Confirm by imprint and copyright page. Later Vintage and Mariner paperbacks are reprints, not the first edition.
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