5 Joe Sacco first editions are documented on this shelf, from Palestine (2000) to Footnotes in Gaza (2009) across 4 different publishers. Each linked guide gives the points of issue that separate a true first printing of that Joe Sacco 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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- Palestine — 1996 (two-part collected) / 1993 (serial) · Fantagraphics BooksSerialized as Palestine issues 1 to 9 (Fantagraphics, 1993 to 1995). First collected book form: the two-part set Palestine: A Nation Occupied (collecting issues 1 to 5) and Palestine: In the Gaza Strip (collecting issues 6 to 9), Fantagraphics, 1996. The single-volume Palestine collection with Edward Said's introduction (Fantagraphics, 2001, ISBN 1-56097-432-X / 9781560974321) is the most cited collected book…. The 1993 to 1995 single issues are the true first appearance of Sacco's comics journalism here. The two-part collected set appeared in 1996; the canonical single-volume collected book is the 2001 edition introduced by Edward Said. Distinguish serial issues, the 1996 two-volume collection, and the 2001 single-volume edition. No book-club edition. The 2001 Said-introduced single-volume collection is told apart from the earlier 1996 two-part set by title, contents (all nine issues in one volume), and the presence of Said's introduction.
- Safe Area Goražde — 2000 · Fantagraphics BooksDeluxe hardcover, Fantagraphics Books, published June 2000 (ISBN 1-56097-392-7), with a foreword by Christopher Hitchens. The hardcover preceded the softcover issue (ISBN 1-56097-470-2). First-printing copies show no later-printing statement on the indicia/copyright page. The Fantagraphics deluxe hardcover (June 2000) is the true first edition and precedes the paperback. The work was created for book publication and was not serialized. No book-club edition; the softcover and the later expanded 'Special Edition' (2011) are subsequent issues, not the first. Distinguish the 2000 hardcover from these by the original ISBN and the absence of the added Special Edition material.
- Notes from a Defeatist — 2003 · Fantagraphics BooksFirst edition, Fantagraphics Books, 2003; first printing. Collects Sacco's earlier journalistic, autobiographical and satirical short work from the 1980s-the printed price, including When Good Bombs Happen to Bad People, More Women More Children More Quickly, and How I Loved the War. ISBN 1560975105 / 9781560975106. First-thus collection (2003) gathering earlier material; the original stories appeared previously in periodical form, so the individual pieces predate this volume. Later printings are reprints of the 2003 collection.
- The Fixer: A Story from Sarajevo — 2003 · Drawn & QuarterlyFirst Drawn & Quarterly edition, 2003; original graphic-novel hardcover, first printing. Issued as a hardcover without a dust jacket (printed pictorial boards). ISBN 1896597602 / 9781896597607. The 2003 Drawn & Quarterly hardcover is the true first, first printing, and the originating edition. The Jonathan Cape UK edition did not appear until 2004 (a paperback), so the D&Q hardcover clearly precedes all other issues. No book-club issue; later printings and the 2004 Jonathan Cape UK paperback are subsequent to, and reprint the text of, the D&Q first edition.
- Footnotes in Gaza — 2009 · Metropolitan Books / Henry HoltFirst edition hardcover, Metropolitan Books (an imprint of Henry Holt / Macmillan), 2009; ISBN 0805073477 / 9780805073478. First printing carries a complete number line ending in 1 on the copyright page and a first-issue jacket retaining its printed price (amount aside). An oversized, heavy volume of roughly 432 pages of comics journalism about the 1956 killings at Khan Younis and Rafah. The first book edition is the 2009 Metropolitan Books / Henry Holt hardcover (US). Metropolitan is the Holt imprint under which it appeared, so references to Holt and to Metropolitan describe the same first printing. Later printings are indicated by a shortened number line no longer ending in 1.
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