2 Jonathan Safran Foer first editions are documented on this shelf, from Everything Is Illuminated (2002) to Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (2005). Each linked guide gives the points of issue that separate a true first printing of that Jonathan Safran Foer 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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Everything Is Illuminated — 2002 · Houghton MifflinHoughton Mifflin, 2002, first edition, first printing, identified by a solitary '1' on the copyright page (a single terminal '1' rather than a long stated line). Bound in black boards; issued in a black-and-white photographic dust jacket with the printed price present on the front flap (present regardless of any clipping); 276 pages. Foer's debut novel. The US Houghton Mifflin hardcover is the true first; the UK Hamish Hamilton edition follows. The hardcover first precedes the trade-paperback reprint. No notable book-club edition; later hardcover printings advance the number sequence, and reprints appear under paperback imprints such as Perennial/Harper.
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close — 2005 · Houghton MifflinCopyright page carries the complete number line descending to 1 (10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1); the presence of the numeral 1 marks the first printing. Bound in cloth over boards; the text is interleaved throughout with found photographs and graphic devices, and closes with the distinctive flip-book sequence of images on the final leaves, a feature reproduced faithfully in the true first issue. The first-issue dust…. The US Houghton Mifflin hardcover (April 2005) is the true first; the UK Hamish Hamilton edition follows. No notable book-club edition; later reprints appear under paperback imprints, most commonly the Mariner/Houghton Mifflin softcover.

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