# Is "Finders, Keepers: Eight Collectors" by Stephen Jay Gould a First Edition?

> **Quick answer.** A first edition of Finders, Keepers: Eight Collectors by Stephen Jay Gould (W. W. Norton, 1992) is identified by: Norton first printing with a number line ending in 1 and a price on the dust jacket; illustrated quarto with color photographs by Rosamond Wolff Purcell. US true first (W.

**Checklist — a true first has these:**
- Norton first printing with a number line ending in 1 and a price on the dust jacket; illustrated quarto with color photographs by Rosamond Wolff Purcell
- Text by Gould, images by Purcell
- Publisher imprint reads W. W. Norton
- Not a book-club edition (see below)

| | |
|---|---|
| Author | Stephen Jay Gould |
| Publisher | W. W. Norton |
| Year | 1992 |
| True first | US edition |
| Format | Hardcover (trade) |
| Key point | Norton first printing with a number line ending in 1 and a price on the dust jacket… |
| Book-club edition exists? | Yes |

## Points of issue
Norton first printing with a number line ending in 1 and a price on the dust jacket; illustrated quarto with color photographs by Rosamond Wolff Purcell. Text by Gould, images by Purcell.

## Is this the true first?
US true first (W. W. Norton, ISBN 0393030547). A separate UK edition was issued by Hutchinson Radius the same year; the Norton is the US first.

## Telling it from reprints & book-club editions
No BCE.

## Source
New Mexico Literacy Project — Is *Finders, Keepers: Eight Collectors* by Stephen Jay Gould a first edition? https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/finders-keepers-eight-collectors
CC BY 4.0. Part of the Canonical First-Edition Points of Issue dataset (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/api/first-edition-titles.json). Last reviewed 2026-07-03.