# Is "Open House" by Robert Coover a First Edition?

> **Quick answer.** A first edition of Open House by Robert Coover (OR Books, 2023) is identified by: First edition is the 2023 paperback from OR Books under its Evergreen Review Books imprint. True first edition is the 2023 OR Books / Evergreen Review Books paperback.

**Checklist — a true first has these:**
- First edition is the 2023 paperback from OR Books under its Evergreen Review Books imprint
- As an OR Books trade paperback it carries the OR Books/Evergreen imprint and the matching ISBN rather than a conventional number line
- The work is a single short metafiction set in a Manhattan penthouse, not a story collection
- Publisher imprint reads OR Books
- Not a book-club edition (see below)

| | |
|---|---|
| Author | Robert Coover |
| Publisher | OR Books |
| Year | 2023 |
| True first | — |
| Format | Hardcover (trade) |
| Key point | First edition is the 2023 paperback from OR Books under its Evergreen Review Books imprint |
| Book-club edition exists? | No |

## Points of issue
First edition is the 2023 paperback from OR Books under its Evergreen Review Books imprint. As an OR Books trade paperback it carries the OR Books/Evergreen imprint and the matching ISBN rather than a conventional number line. The work is a single short metafiction set in a Manhattan penthouse, not a story collection.

## Is this the true first?
True first edition is the 2023 OR Books / Evergreen Review Books paperback.

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

## Source
New Mexico Literacy Project — Is *Open House* by Robert Coover a first edition? https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/open-house
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.