# Is "The Collected Stories of Deborah Eisenberg" by Deborah Eisenberg a First Edition?

> **Quick answer.** A first edition of The Collected Stories of Deborah Eisenberg by Deborah Eisenberg (Picador, 2010) is identified by: Issued by Picador (the Farrar, Straus and Giroux trade-paperback imprint) as a paperback original; the first printing is identified by a number line ending in 1 on the copyright page. The US Picador paperback original (2010) is the true first edition; the collection won the 2011 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction.

**Checklist — a true first has these:**
- Issued by Picador (the Farrar, Straus and Giroux trade-paperback imprint) as a paperback original; the first printing is identified by a number line ending in 1 on the copyright page
- No simultaneous Picador cloth edition is documented
- Publisher imprint reads Picador
- Not a book-club edition (see below)

| | |
|---|---|
| Author | Deborah Eisenberg |
| Publisher | Picador |
| Year | 2010 |
| True first | US edition |
| Format | Hardcover (trade) |
| Key point | Issued by Picador (the Farrar, Straus and Giroux trade-paperback imprint) as a paperback original; the first printing is identified by a… |
| Book-club edition exists? | No |

## Points of issue
Issued by Picador (the Farrar, Straus and Giroux trade-paperback imprint) as a paperback original; the first printing is identified by a number line ending in 1 on the copyright page. No simultaneous Picador cloth edition is documented.

## Is this the true first?
The US Picador paperback original (2010) is the true first edition; the collection won the 2011 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction.

## Telling it from reprints & book-club editions
No book-club edition is recorded. There is no documented hardcover state to distinguish; the first edition is the trade paperback.

## Source
New Mexico Literacy Project — Is *The Collected Stories of Deborah Eisenberg* by Deborah Eisenberg a first edition? https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-collected-stories-of-deborah-eisenberg
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.