# Is "Legends & Lattes" by Travis Baldree a First Edition?

> **Quick answer.** A first edition of Legends & Lattes by Travis Baldree (Cryptid Press, 2022) is identified by: The true first is Baldree's self-published trade paperback under his own Cryptid Press imprint, ISBN 9798985663211, released 22 February 2022 at 305 pages, with commissioned cover art by Carson Lowmiller; the Cryptid Press ebook was released the same day. Self-published US precedes; the census claim is correct.

**Checklist — a true first has these:**
- The true first is Baldree's self-published trade paperback under his own Cryptid Press imprint, ISBN 9798985663211, released 22 February 2022 at 305 pages, with commissioned cover art by Carson Lowmiller; the Cryptid Press ebook was released the same day
- It was produced print-on-demand through BOTH Amazon KDP and IngramSpark, so — as with any POD title — there is no fixed first printing, no printer's key, and no dust jacket: copies were manufactured to order, and a KDP-printed copy carries a manufacturing stamp on the final leaf while an IngramSpark-printed copy will not, meaning two physically different first-edition copies exist with no priority between them
- Identification rests on the "Cryptid Press" imprint statement on the copyright page and the ISBN 9798985663211, and on the text state: the first edition does NOT contain the prequel story added to the Tor issue
- Any claimed number line or jacket point for this book is spurious
- Publisher imprint reads Cryptid Press
- Not a book-club edition (see below)

| | |
|---|---|
| Author | Travis Baldree |
| Publisher | Cryptid Press |
| Year | 2022 |
| True first | US edition |
| Format | Hardcover (trade) |
| Key point | The true first is Baldree's self-published trade paperback under his own Cryptid Press imprint, ISBN 9798985663211, released 22 February… |
| Book-club edition exists? | No |

## Points of issue
The true first is Baldree's self-published trade paperback under his own Cryptid Press imprint, ISBN 9798985663211, released 22 February 2022 at 305 pages, with commissioned cover art by Carson Lowmiller; the Cryptid Press ebook was released the same day. It was produced print-on-demand through BOTH Amazon KDP and IngramSpark, so — as with any POD title — there is no fixed first printing, no printer's key, and no dust jacket: copies were manufactured to order, and a KDP-printed copy carries a manufacturing stamp on the final leaf while an IngramSpark-printed copy will not, meaning two physically different first-edition copies exist with no priority between them. Identification rests on the "Cryptid Press" imprint statement on the copyright page and the ISBN 9798985663211, and on the text state: the first edition does NOT contain the prequel story added to the Tor issue. Any claimed number line or jacket point for this book is spurious.

## Is this the true first?
Self-published US precedes; the census claim is correct. Cryptid Press, 22 February 2022, is the first edition. Tor Books issued a SECOND EDITION in US trade paperback on 8 November 2022, and Tor UK issued the first British edition — and the first hardcover of the book in any market — in the same month (ISBN 9781035007301, 10 November 2022). The Tor UK hardcover is collected in its own right as the first hardcover and first British edition, but it is a second edition and must never be described as the first.

## Telling it from reprints & book-club editions
No book-club issue. The Tor issue is textually distinguishable rather than a plain reprint: it adds the prequel story "Pages to Fill: A Legends & Lattes Story," and the presence of that story rules a copy out as the first edition on internal evidence alone — the single most useful tell for this title.

## Source
New Mexico Literacy Project — Is *Legends & Lattes* by Travis Baldree a first edition? https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/legends-lattes
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.