# Is "Lost Girls" by Alan Moore & Melinda Gebbie a First Edition?

> **Quick answer.** A first edition of Lost Girls by Alan Moore & Melinda Gebbie (Top Shelf Productions, 2006) is identified by: Three-volume slipcased hardcover set, Top Shelf Productions, 2006, ISBN 1-891830-74-0 (978-1-891830-74-7). Portions were serialized earlier in the anthology Taboo; the 2006 Top Shelf three-volume slipcased set is the first complete edition.

**Checklist — a true first has these:**
- Three-volume slipcased hardcover set, Top Shelf Productions, 2006, ISBN 1-891830-74-0 (978-1-891830-74-7)
- Each oversized volume has a sewn-signature binding and its own dust jacket, all housed in a slipcase
- The first printing has no additional-printing statement
- Explicit erotic content
- Correct publisher/imprint: Top Shelf Productions

| | |
|---|---|
| Author | Alan Moore & Melinda Gebbie |
| Publisher | Top Shelf Productions |
| Year | 2006 |
| True first | world edition |
| Format | Comic / graphic novel |
| Key point | Three-volume slipcased hardcover set, Top Shelf Productions, 2006, ISBN 1-891830-74-0 (978-1-891830-74-7) |
| Book-club edition exists? | No |

## Points of issue
Three-volume slipcased hardcover set, Top Shelf Productions, 2006, ISBN 1-891830-74-0 (978-1-891830-74-7). Each oversized volume has a sewn-signature binding and its own dust jacket, all housed in a slipcase. The first printing has no additional-printing statement. Explicit erotic content.

## Is this the true first?
Portions were serialized earlier in the anthology Taboo; the 2006 Top Shelf three-volume slipcased set is the first complete edition. To finance the first printing, Top Shelf also offered a numbered subscription limited to the first 500 customers, issued in the same 2006 slipcased format. The later single-volume softcover (2009) is a first thus.

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

## Source
New Mexico Literacy Project — Is *Lost Girls* by Alan Moore & Melinda Gebbie a first edition? https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/lost-girls
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.