2 Carl Laymon (Richard Laymon) first editions are documented on this shelf, from Your Secret Admirer (1980) to Nightmare Lake (1983) across 2 different publishers. Each linked guide gives the points of issue that separate a true first printing of that Carl Laymon (Richard Laymon) 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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Your Secret Admirer — 1980 · ScholasticScholastic YA paperback original as by Carl Laymon (ISBN 0-590-30352-X); Laymon's only book for Scholastic. Paperback original under the Carl Laymon byline; no earlier edition exists. N/A (paperback original).
Nightmare Lake — 1983 · DellDell paperback original in the Twilight: Where Darkness Begins young-adult horror line (number 11), published March 1983 under the Carl Laymon byline (ISBN 0-440-95945-4), a mass-market paperback of about 146 pages. As a paperback original there is no dust jacket; the price is printed on the cover. Written by Richard Laymon under the Carl Laymon pseudonym. Paperback original under the Carl Laymon byline; no earlier hardcover or other edition precedes it. N/A (paperback original); later Dell reprints, where they exist, carry an advanced printing line on the copyright page.

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