2 Anthony Hope first editions are documented on this shelf, from The Prisoner of Zenda (1894) to Rupert of Hentzau (1898). Each linked guide gives the points of issue that separate a true first printing of that Anthony Hope 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 Prisoner of Zenda — 1894 · J. W. ArrowsmithFirst published by J. W. Arrowsmith, Bristol, in 1894, one of the numbered volumes in Arrowsmith's series of single-volume popular novels; the book went through further issues within the year given its immediate popularity. Because the novel was brand new on release, the true first issue is identified by the absence of The Prisoner of Zenda's own title from the list of Arrowsmith titles in the publisher's rear…. An American edition from Henry Holt, New York, followed the Arrowsmith Bristol edition the same year.
Rupert of Hentzau — 1898 · J. W. ArrowsmithFirst published in book form by J. W. Arrowsmith, Bristol, in 1898; the sequel to The Prisoner of Zenda, it was written in 1895 but withheld from book publication until after serialization in Pall Mall Magazine and McClure's Magazine (December 1897-June 1898). The first edition is illustrated with eight full-page plates by Charles Dana Gibson, including a tissue-guarded frontispiece, and is bound in blue-green…. An American edition, also illustrated by Charles Dana Gibson, was published the same year by Henry Holt & Co., New York; it does not have priority over the Arrowsmith Bristol first. Later reprints, including 20th-century and modern paperback editions, lack Gibson's original plates and tissue-guarded frontispiece and are not the 1898 first.

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