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. Correcting the census note: 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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