2 Olga Tokarczuk first editions are documented on this shelf, from Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead (2009) to Flights (2017) across 2 different publishers. Each linked guide gives the points of issue that separate a true first printing of that Olga Tokarczuk 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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Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead — 2009 · Wydawnictwo Literackie, KrakówThe true first is Prowadź swój pług przez kości umarłych, Wydawnictwo Literackie, Kraków, 2009 (the title is from Blake's The Marriage of Heaven and Hell); the novel was nominated for the Nike in 2010, and the Wydawnictwo Literackie imprint with the 2009 copyright line is the identification. The first edition in English is Fitzcarraldo Editions, London, published 12 September 2018, translated by Antonia…. Polish is the true first (Wydawnictwo Literackie, Kraków, 2009). The census is correct that the UK precedes for English: Fitzcarraldo Editions, London, 12 September 2018 precedes the American edition — Riverhead Books, New York, 13 August 2019, hardcover, ISBN 978-0-525-54133-2 — by eleven months; both the Fitzcarraldo and the Riverhead are collected, the Fitzcarraldo as the first in English and the Riverhead as…. No book-club issue is documented. The reprint tells are the Fitzcarraldo 'International Edition' (ISBN 978-1-913097-25-7, 2019) and the plain non-flapped Fitzcarraldo paperback, both later issues distinct from the 2018 flapped first, plus the Riverhead paperback of 2020 (ISBN 978-0-525-54134-9). Post-Nobel Fitzcarraldo printings look identical to the first from the outside — the house design does not change….
Flights — 2017 · Fitzcarraldo EditionsFirst English edition, Fitzcarraldo Editions 2017 (Jennifer Croft's translation of 'Bieguni'), in Fitzcarraldo's signature blue flexible card wrappers with french-fold flaps (paperback original, no dust jacket), with 'First published by Fitzcarraldo Editions in 2017' on the verso. The US Riverhead hardcover followed in 2018. 2018 International Booker Prize winner. The Polish 'Bieguni' (Wydawnictwo Literackie, 2007) is the true first of the work; the Fitzcarraldo 2017 is the true first in English (Croft translation) and the prize-winning edition. The blue-wrapper Fitzcarraldo first is highly collected, with interest heightened by Tokarczuk's later Nobel Prize in Literature. The Riverhead US edition is distinguished by imprint and format (hardcover). Later Fitzcarraldo printings state additional impressions on the verso. No book-club edition.

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