2 Madeline Miller first editions are documented on this shelf, from The Song of Achilles (2011) to Circe (2018) across 2 different publishers. Each linked guide gives the points of issue that separate a true first printing of that Madeline Miller 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 Song of Achilles — 2011 · BloomsburyTrue first is Bloomsbury, London, 20 September 2011 (ISBN 9781408816035): black cloth boards with lettering to the spine, 352 pp., first printing identified by a complete publisher's number line ending in 1 on the copyright page. The first American edition is Ecco (HarperCollins), New York, 6 March 2012 (ISBN 9780062060617): white boards with gilt spine lettering and rough-cut (deckle) edges, again with a full…. UK precedes: Bloomsbury London, September 2011, is the true first; Ecco US, March 2012, is the first American edition and is separately collected — both editions are collected and should be named. Be alert to a widely-propagated error: Wikipedia's infobox credits "Ecco Press (HarperCollins)" with a 20 September 2011 US publication, conflating the Bloomsbury UK date with the Ecco imprint. That is not supported by…. No book-club edition documented in the dealer census consulted. The reprint tells are the number line (lowest digit above 1) and later jacket states carrying prize wording. "First thus" traps: the 2021 10th Anniversary edition (so marked), and the 2025 Deluxe Edition with sprayed/stenciled edges and endpapers featuring a map of Homer's Greece — neither is a first edition of the text.
Circe — 2018 · Little, Brown and CompanyTrue first is Little, Brown and Company, New York, 10 April 2018 (ISBN 9780316556347). The copyright page carries the Hachette-style dated statement reported as "First Edition, April 2018" together with a complete number line ending in 1 ("10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1") — the number line to 1 is the decisive test and is independently confirmed by dealers; later printings are catalogued off the number line (the printed…. US precedes — the reverse of The Song of Achilles, which is exactly the trap on this author. Little, Brown (US) published on 10 April 2018, confirmed by both the author's own site and the standard reference record; Bloomsbury issued the UK edition afterwards. Both editions are collected and both should be named. One caveat, stated plainly: sources disagree on the exact UK date — the reference record and UK trade…. No book-club edition documented in the dealer census consulted. Reprint tells are the copyright page number line and the loss of the dated "First Edition, April 2018" statement. The main confusion sources are retailer and signed-limitation variants — the Bloomsbury numbered signed issue of 250 and the later Folio Society edition — rather than club issues.

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