2 Rebecca Yarros first editions are documented on this shelf, from Fourth Wing (The Empyrean, Book 1) (2023) to Iron Flame (2023) across 2 different publishers. Each linked guide gives the points of issue that separate a true first printing of that Rebecca Yarros 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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Fourth Wing (The Empyrean, Book 1) — 2023 · Red Tower Books / Entangled PublishingTrue first is the US trade hardcover, Entangled: Red Tower Books, 2 May 2023 (ISBN 9781649374042), black paper-covered boards in a pictorial dust jacket. The decisive point is the copyright-page number line: a first printing runs complete to 1. This title reprinted hard and fast, and the trade is full of later printings correctly catalogued off the line — dealers list "first edition, 4th printing as indicated by…. US precedes: Red Tower Books (Entangled) is the originating publisher and the 2 May 2023 US hardcover is the true first. There is no original-language or foreign precedence question — the book is American and English-language. Piatkus (Little, Brown UK) issued the UK editions in 2023, collected as the first UK; sources consulted did not agree on the exact Piatkus release date, so no day-level UK claim is made…. No book-club edition documented. The confusion on this title comes from retailer and special editions rather than clubs, and several are actively mis-catalogued as firsts. The Limited/Holiday Special Edition (ISBN 9781649376169, 2023) is a different edition with new pictorial endpapers, black sprayed edges, gilt spine and two exclusive Xaden-POV bonus chapters — one dealer listing consulted offered it as "first….
Iron Flame — 2023 · Red Tower Books / Entangled PublishingThe US first printing is identified by the copyright-page statement 'First Edition November 2023' above a complete number line running to 1 — that statement, not the edge treatment, is the reliable first-printing determinant. The standard US retail hardcover was issued with solid black stencil-sprayed page edges and illustrated/mapped endpapers, but sprayed edges are NOT a first-only point: retailer-exclusive…. The originating true first is the US Red Tower Books edition, released November 7, 2023; the UK Piatkus (Little, Brown) edition appeared the same day and is collected in parallel. US and UK are effectively simultaneous, and the distinguishing evidence is the 'First Edition November 2023' statement plus number line — not 'sprayed/patterned edges,' which recur across variants and later stock. No book-club edition is a factor for this recent title; the real trap is conflating the many retailer-exclusive sprayed-edge and signed variants with the trade first — the copyright-page 'First Edition November 2023' statement and full number line settle it.

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