2 Reginald Hill first editions are documented on this shelf, from A Clubbable Woman (1970) to Bones and Silence (1990) across 2 different publishers. Each linked guide gives the points of issue that separate a true first printing of that Reginald Hill 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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A Clubbable Woman — 1970 · Collins Crime ClubCollins Crime Club firsts of this period carry no first-printing statement, so the identification is negative: the copyright page shows the 1970 date and nothing indicating a later impression. ILAB's publisher guide records Collins (U.K.) as "no statement on the first edition; presumably subsequent printings would be noted"; other guides describe a "First published 1970" line with no additional printings listed —…. UK Collins Crime Club, London, 1970 is the true first — the census claim is confirmed. It is Hill's first book and the first Dalziel & Pascoe novel. The first American edition did not follow until fourteen years later: Foul Play Press / The Countryman Press, Woodstock, Vermont, published 28 September 1984, in dark grey cloth with gilt-stamped spine titling, 256pp. That US edition is collected in its own right as…. "Crime Club" on the spine is not a book-club tell — Collins Crime Club was a William Collins hardcover imprint (1930–1994), not a subscription club; readers joined only a mailing list. No book-club issue of the 1970 first is documented. Later-issue traps: the Fontana/Collins paperback (1972) and the 1984 Foul Play Press US edition are reprints / "first thus", not firsts.
Bones and Silence — 1990 · William Collins / Collins Crime ClubUK Collins (Crime Club) first, 1990: 'First published 1990' with a number line ending in 1; bound in blue cloth with gilt spine lettering and a pictorial dust jacket. Eleventh Dalziel and Pascoe novel; it won the 1990 CWA Gold Dagger. UK Collins Crime Club 1990 is the true first; the US Delacorte edition is a first-thus / first American edition. BCA / book-club editions and later printings are not firsts; club editions lack the jacket price and may carry a board code.

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