2 Whitley Strieber first editions are documented on this shelf, from The Wolfen (1978) to The Hunger (1981) across 2 different publishers. Each linked guide gives the points of issue that separate a true first printing of that Whitley Strieber 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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The Wolfen — 1978 · William Morrow, New YorkThe first printing carries the "First Edition" statement on the copyright page together with a complete number line reading 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10. The number line is the load-bearing point, not the statement: the standard publisher guide records that Morrow has used a number row since 1973 and only sometimes a first-edition statement, and that Morrow occasionally failed to strip the first-edition statement from…. The census claim is confirmed: William Morrow, New York, 1978 is the true first of Strieber's debut novel. A first British edition was published the same year by Hodder & Stoughton, London (ISBN 0-340-23532-2) and is separately collected as the UK first, but it follows the Morrow printing — Strieber is American and the book was a US origination. The 1992 UK reissue (Melvyn Grant cover) and the later illustrated…. No Wolfen-specific book-club record surfaced in the sources consulted, but the standard tells for US hardcovers of this period apply and should be checked: a blind stamp (dot, circle or square) impressed into the rear board near the spine, a jacket with no price at the front flap, thinner paper and a smaller trim size, and — for Book-of-the-Month copies — a code printed sideways at the foot of the last page….
The Hunger — 1981 · William Morrow and Company, New YorkIdentification rests on the number row on the copyright page: Morrow has used a descending or interleaved number line since 1973, and the presence of the numeral 1 in that row marks the first printing. Do not rely on a "First Edition" slug alone — Morrow is documented by both the ILAB and Quill & Brush publisher guides as having used a first-edition statement only intermittently and as being notoriously…. The census claim stands: the true first is the US edition, William Morrow and Company, New York, 1981. The first UK edition is The Bodley Head, London, 1981 (ISBN 0-370-30398-9), bound in black cloth/boards with silver spine lettering; its copyright page reads "First published in Great Britain in 1981," a formula that itself signals prior publication abroad and therefore confirms US precedence rather than a…. Book-club copies of the 1981 Morrow issue circulate and are frequently mis-sold as firsts. The documented tells are a jacket with no price at the front flap, a small blind stamp (impressed square, circle, or dot) on the lower rear board, and a smaller trim size with thinner paper and cheaper binding than the trade issue. A separate club-issue ISBN (0-7394-1997-8) also appears in the record for this title. A club….

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