# Is "Horns" by Joe Hill a First Edition?

> **Quick answer.** A first edition of Horns by Joe Hill (William Morrow, New York, 2010) is identified by: The first printing is the William Morrow (New York) hardcover of 2010, ISBN 0061147958 / 9780061147951, 370 pp. The US William Morrow hardcover (New York, February 2010) is the true first and is what dealer catalogues uniformly treat as the first edition.

**Checklist — a true first has these:**
- The first printing is the William Morrow (New York) hardcover of 2010, ISBN 0061147958 / 9780061147951, 370 pp
- Two points must be present together on the copyright page: a stated "First Edition" and a complete descending number line running to 1; dealers describe first printings as "stated first edition, first printing" with the full number line intact
- The jacket should be a priced jacket, with the price present at the front flap and not clipped
- No first-state text error, binding variant, or jacket variant is documented for this title, so the edition statement plus the number line are the whole of the identification
- Publisher imprint reads William Morrow, New York
- Not a book-club edition (see below)

| | |
|---|---|
| Author | Joe Hill |
| Publisher | William Morrow, New York |
| Year | 2010 |
| True first | US edition |
| Format | Hardcover (trade) |
| Key point | The first printing is the William Morrow (New York) hardcover of 2010, ISBN 0061147958 / 9780061147951, 370 pp |
| Book-club edition exists? | No |

## Points of issue
The first printing is the William Morrow (New York) hardcover of 2010, ISBN 0061147958 / 9780061147951, 370 pp. Two points must be present together on the copyright page: a stated "First Edition" and a complete descending number line running to 1; dealers describe first printings as "stated first edition, first printing" with the full number line intact. The jacket should be a priced jacket, with the price present at the front flap and not clipped. No first-state text error, binding variant, or jacket variant is documented for this title, so the edition statement plus the number line are the whole of the identification.

## Is this the true first?
The US William Morrow hardcover (New York, February 2010) is the true first and is what dealer catalogues uniformly treat as the first edition. The census claim of a simultaneous UK issue is REFUTED by the dates found: the Gollancz (London) hardcover, ISBN 0575079169 / 9780575079168, is dated 16 March 2010 — roughly a month after Morrow — so it follows rather than accompanies the US issue. The Gollancz hardcover is nonetheless collected as the first UK edition; its copyright page carries a number line containing 1 (reported by one dealer as 1357108642, by another as "the numbers 1-10 present"). Both the Morrow and the Gollancz hardcovers are collected; the Morrow has precedence.

## Telling it from reprints & book-club editions
No US book-club issue is documented for Horns. Reprint tells are the absence of the "First Edition" statement and/or a number line that no longer runs to 1. The 2011 William Morrow paperback and the Gollancz trade paperback (2 June 2011, ISBN 9780575099999) are later formats, not firsts, and the Daniel Radcliffe film tie-in issues are later still — "first thus" at best.

## Source
New Mexico Literacy Project — Is *Horns* by Joe Hill a first edition? https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/horns
CC BY 4.0. Part of the Canonical First-Edition Points of Issue dataset (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/api/first-edition-titles.json). Last reviewed 2026-07-04.