2 Khaled Hosseini first editions are documented on this shelf, from The Kite Runner (2003) to A Thousand Splendid Suns (2007) across 2 different publishers. Each linked guide gives the points of issue that separate a true first printing of that Khaled Hosseini 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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The Kite Runner — 2003 · Riverhead BooksCopyright-page number line reads '1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2' — this exact sequence is the key first-printing point. Quarter black cloth spine over green boards with gilt lettering; pictorial dust jacket with its printed price, unclipped. ISBN 1-57322-245-3. The US Riverhead first is the true first, preceding the UK Bloomsbury edition (2003). Hosseini's debut novel. Later printings show altered number lines lacking the leading 1. Book-club and reprint copies are far more common than the true first.
A Thousand Splendid Suns — 2007 · Riverhead BooksTrue first is Riverhead Books, New York, 2007, approx. 372 pp, ISBN 978-1-59448-950-1; the copyright page carries the number line 1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2 (no separate 'First Edition' slug). Binding is green paper boards with a gilt circular medallion to the front, a black cloth spine lettered in gilt, and maroon/burgundy endpapers; the rear jacket bears five review blurbs plus an Isabel Allende blurb, with the price…. US Riverhead (May 22, 2007) is the recognized true first; the UK Bloomsbury edition is near-simultaneous 2007 and the collected first in Britain. Both are 2007 English-language firsts, with US Riverhead holding trade precedence. A signed limited first edition (one of 1,500) is a special issue distinct from the trade first. Later trade printings drop the 1 from the number line; confirm the green-boards/gilt-medallion binding and the first-issue jacket ISBN-correction point.

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