2 Susanna Clarke first editions are documented on this shelf, from Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell (2004) to Piranesi (2020) across 2 different publishers. Each linked guide gives the points of issue that separate a true first printing of that Susanna Clarke 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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Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell — 2004 · BloomsburyFirst printing identified by the number line beginning with 1 (full line present). Portia Rosenberg illustrations; priced jacket. A simultaneously issued variant exists (black boards / white endpapers / black jacket vs. white boards / black endpapers). The US issue states 'First U.S. Edition'. Precedence by date actually favors the US issue: the US edition was published 8 September 2004, two weeks ahead of the UK Bloomsbury edition (30 September 2004). Both are Bloomsbury-family firsts; collectors prize the UK issue, but the US issue holds chronological precedence. Identify either first printing by the number line beginning with 1. Book-club and later printings show number lines that do not begin with 1. Verify the full number line beginning with 1 and the correct Bloomsbury imprint for the issue in hand.
Piranesi — 2020 · Bloomsbury — London and New York, both September 15, 2020Both Bloomsbury printings are dated September 15, 2020, and first printings are identified by a complete number line on the copyright page: dealers describe the London printing (ISBN 978-1-5266-2242-6) as carrying the full 1–10 line, and later impressions have the low numbers stripped, so the presence of the 1 is the point. The New York printing (ISBN 978-1-6355-7563-7) is a separate setting with its own full…. Simultaneous — and the census's assertion that 'the UK printing is generally taken as primary' could not be established as a rule; treat precedence as unsettled rather than stating it. Bloomsbury published Piranesi in London and in New York on the same day, September 15, 2020. Both are collected and both should be named: the London printing (978-1-5266-2242-6) is the home-market issue for an English author and is…. No book-club edition is documented for this title. The tells that matter are impression and issue tells rather than club tells: a stripped number line marks a later impression, and the two retailer exclusives — the Waterstones issue (signed bound-in leaf plus the extra chapter 'Two Interviews') and the Barnes & Noble issue (black boards, copper-foil columns, front-panel sticker) — were sold alongside the trade….

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