# Is "It Starts with Us" by Colleen Hoover a First Edition?

> **Quick answer.** A first edition of It Starts with Us by Colleen Hoover (Atria Books, 2022) is identified by: Atria Books, New York, published 18 October 2022, ISBN 978-1-6680-0122-6, 336 pp. Census claim refined.

**Checklist — a true first has these:**
- Atria Books, New York, published 18 October 2022, ISBN 978-1-6680-0122-6, 336 pp. — and the decisive fact is that the US first is a TRADE PAPERBACK ORIGINAL, not a hardcover; no US hardcover trade first exists
- The first printing is identified by a full number line on the copyright page ending in 1; dealers describe the true first as 'first edition, first printing, full number line present' and 'a true first paperback printing, confirmed by the number line ending in 1', exactly as with its predecessor It Ends with Us (Atria, 2016), also a paperback original
- The first UK edition, published the same day — Simon & Schuster UK, London, 18 October 2022, ISBN 978-1-3985-1816-2, 336 pp. — IS a hardback, bound in blue cloth boards with gilt lettering to the spine and issued in an unclipped jacket; a collector who wants a hardback first must go to the UK issue
- Publisher imprint reads Atria Books
- Not a book-club edition (see below)

| | |
|---|---|
| Author | Colleen Hoover |
| Publisher | Atria Books |
| Year | 2022 |
| True first | US edition |
| Format | Hardcover (trade) |
| Key point | Atria Books, New York, published 18 October 2022, ISBN 978-1-6680-0122-6, 336 pp. — and the decisive fact is that the US first is a TRADE… |
| Book-club edition exists? | No |

## Points of issue
Atria Books, New York, published 18 October 2022, ISBN 978-1-6680-0122-6, 336 pp. — and the decisive fact is that the US first is a TRADE PAPERBACK ORIGINAL, not a hardcover; no US hardcover trade first exists. The first printing is identified by a full number line on the copyright page ending in 1; dealers describe the true first as 'first edition, first printing, full number line present' and 'a true first paperback printing, confirmed by the number line ending in 1', exactly as with its predecessor It Ends with Us (Atria, 2016), also a paperback original. The first UK edition, published the same day — Simon & Schuster UK, London, 18 October 2022, ISBN 978-1-3985-1816-2, 336 pp. — IS a hardback, bound in blue cloth boards with gilt lettering to the spine and issued in an unclipped jacket; a collector who wants a hardback first must go to the UK issue.

## Is this the true first?
Census claim refined. Same-day US/UK publication on 18 October 2022 is confirmed, but the point that matters is format, not date: Atria's US issue is the true first and is a trade paperback, while the Simon & Schuster UK issue of the same day is the first hardback. Both are collected and neither displaces the other. Describing this simply as 'Atria (US) 2022' invites the common error of hunting a US hardcover first that was never published — and of then buying the 2024 Special Collector's Edition in its place.

## Telling it from reprints & book-club editions
No book-club edition is documented. The 'first thus' traps are unusually thick here. The US Special Collector's Edition hardcover (ISBN 978-1-6680-2105-7), with foil cover, designed endpapers and added recipes, is a 2024 production and is NOT a first edition, though it is the earliest US hardcover most buyers ever see. In Britain, retailer-exclusive first-impression hardbacks with a blue marbled fore-edge circulate alongside the standard UK first and are a variant of it, not a separate edition. And the print run was enormous — reported at roughly 2.5 million copies across the first four printings, with 800,000 sold on day one — so 2022 Atria copies whose number line no longer reaches 1 are extremely common second-, third- and fourth-printing books that look identical to the first.

## Source
New Mexico Literacy Project — Is *It Starts with Us* by Colleen Hoover a first edition? https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/it-starts-with-us
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.