2 Mark Doty first editions are documented on this shelf, from My Alexandria (1993) to Atlantis (1995) across 2 different publishers. Each linked guide gives the points of issue that separate a true first printing of that Mark Doty 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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My Alexandria — 1993 · University of Illinois PressNational Poetry Series selection (chosen by Philip Levine). Issued in cloth and in wrappers; first printing on the copyright page. Wrappers ISBN 0252063171 (ISBN-13 9780252063176). The University of Illinois Press markets the cloth as the first cloth edition; the cloth issue is the collector's preferred form. US true first precedes the UK Jonathan Cape edition (ISBN 0224041282 / 9780224041287). US Illinois true first (1993); the UK Jonathan Cape edition is later. My Alexandria won the National Book Critics Circle Award, was a 1993 National Book Award finalist, and won the UK's T. S. Eliot Prize (1995). Cloth is the collector's first; softcover is a simultaneous true-first issue. The UK Cape edition is a later first-thus, not the true first; later printing statements indicate reprints.
Atlantis — 1995 · HarperCollinsFirst edition so stated on the copyright page with a full number line descending to 1; HarperCollins hardcover in dust jacket with original price, 103 pp. A HarperPerennial trade paperback (ISBN 0060951060) was issued for the same title; the hardcover (ISBN 0060553626) is the collectible first. Confirm the number line reaches 1. US HarperCollins hardcover is the true first. Signed copies exist (signed on the title page). The HarperPerennial paperback, or any copy with a number line that does not reach 1, indicates it is not the first hardcover printing.

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