2 Jorie Graham first editions are documented on this shelf, from Erosion (1983) to The Dream of the Unified Field: Selected Poems 1974-1994 (1995) across 2 different publishers. Each linked guide gives the points of issue that separate a true first printing of that Jorie Graham 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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Erosion — 1983 · Princeton University PressPrinceton Series of Contemporary Poets. Issued simultaneously in cloth and in wrappers. Cloth issue: ISBN 0691065705 (ISBN-13 9780691065700), bound in cloth (black or light gray, no established priority) with dust jacket. Wrappers issue: ISBN 0691014051 (ISBN-13 9780691014050). The cloth-in-jacket copy is the collector's preferred form. US Princeton true first. Graham's second collection. The cloth and wrappers were issued simultaneously, so both are true-first issues; cloth is generally preferred. Later printings in the series add a printing statement; the softcover is a simultaneous true-first issue but secondary to cloth.
The Dream of the Unified Field: Selected Poems 1974-1994 — 1995 · The Ecco PressWinner of the 1996 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. The first edition was published by Ecco (Hopewell, New Jersey) in 1995 in quarter cloth over boards with a pictorial dust jacket designed by Michael Ian Kaye. First printings carry the Ecco first-edition statement with an unadvanced number line and the original unclipped jacket. US Ecco edition (1995) is the true first. Carcanet issued the first British edition. No book-club issue; on the genuine first printing the number line is intact and unadvanced.

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