3 N. K. Jemisin first editions are documented on this shelf, from The Fifth Season (2015) to The Stone Sky (2017) across 2 different publishers. Each linked guide gives the points of issue that separate a true first printing of that N. K. Jemisin 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 Fifth Season — 2015 · OrbitFirst edition is the Orbit trade paperback original (US, August 4, 2015), in wraps, first printing identified by a full number line ending in 1, with the original printed cover price. The first edition is a trade paperback, not a hardcover. Won the 2016 Hugo for Best Novel; first volume of the Broken Earth Trilogy. True first is the Orbit trade paperback original (2015); no simultaneous hardcover. Subterranean Press later issued a signed/limited hardcover, a separate state. No book-club edition. The trap is expecting a hardcover. Confirm the trade paperback first printing by the full number line ending in 1.
- The Obelisk Gate — 2016 · OrbitFirst edition is the Orbit trade paperback original (US, August 16, 2016), in wraps, first printing identified by a number line ending in 1, with the original printed cover price. Second volume of the Broken Earth Trilogy; won the 2017 Hugo for Best Novel. The Orbit 2016 trade paperback original is the true first edition. A later Subterranean Press signed/limited hardcover is a separate state, a first thus. No book-club edition. Verify the trade paperback first printing by the number line ending in 1.
- The Stone Sky — 2017 · OrbitFirst edition is the Orbit trade paperback original (US, August 15, 2017), in wraps, first printing identified by a full number line ending in 1, with the original printed cover price. Like its predecessors, the first edition is a trade paperback. Won the 2017 Nebula and the 2018 Hugo (Jemisin's third consecutive Hugo for Best Novel); third volume of the Broken Earth Trilogy. True first is the Orbit trade paperback original (2017); no hardcover first. Subterranean Press later issued signed/limited hardcovers of the trilogy as separate prized states. No book-club edition. The trap is expecting a hardcover. Confirm the trade paperback first printing by the full number line ending in 1. (The Fifth Season and The Obelisk Gate are likewise paperback-original firsts.).
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