2 Gwyneth Jones first editions are documented on this shelf, from Bold as Love (2001) to Life (2004) across 2 different publishers. Each linked guide gives the points of issue that separate a true first printing of that Gwyneth Jones 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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Bold as Love — 2001 · GollanczUK Gollancz hardcover, London 2001, full title Bold as Love: A Near Future Fantasy (ISBN 0575070307). Bound in green linen with gilt titles stamped to the spine, in the first-issue dust jacket with cover art by Anne Sudworth; the copyright page carries the statement 'This edition first published in Great Britain in 2001 by Gollancz', identifying the first printing. The UK Gollancz 2001 hardcover is the true first and the only true first; no earlier competing US edition appeared. Won the 2002 Arthur C. Clarke Award and was shortlisted for the 2001 BSFA Award. First book of the Bold as Love cycle. Later Gollancz S.F. reissues, the SF Masterworks edition, and print-on-demand issues are reprints, distinguished by their own series wording and later ISBNs; the true first is the green-linen 2001 hardcover with the Sudworth jacket.
Life — 2004 · Aqueduct PressUS Aqueduct Press trade paperback original, 2004 (ISBN 0-9746559-2-9); first printing, roughly 370 pages. A full-length standalone novel of the scientist Anna Senoz, issued as a full-size trade paperback distinct from Aqueduct's short-form Conversation Pieces chapbook series. The copyright page carries the Aqueduct Press imprint with the 2004 date. The US Aqueduct Press 2004 trade paperback is the true first edition. It won the Philip K. Dick Award presented at Norwescon in 2005 for works published in 2004. A scarce small-press original from an independent feminist science-fiction publisher. Later printings and reissues are reprints; there is no book-club edition.

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