# Is "The Marriage Plot" by Jeffrey Eugenides a First Edition?

> **Quick answer.** A first edition of The Marriage Plot by Jeffrey Eugenides (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2011) is identified by: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York, 2011. The US FSG 2011 hardcover is the true first; the UK Fourth Estate edition follows.

**Checklist — a true first has these:**
- Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York, 2011
- The first printing states 'First Edition, 2011' on the copyright page accompanied by a full number line beginning with 1, with the FSG colophon present and the first-issue jacket carrying the printed flap price
- Publisher imprint reads Farrar, Straus and Giroux
- Not a book-club edition (see below)

| | |
|---|---|
| Author | Jeffrey Eugenides |
| Publisher | Farrar, Straus and Giroux |
| Year | 2011 |
| True first | US edition |
| Format | Hardcover (trade) |
| Key point | Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York, 2011 |
| Book-club edition exists? | No |

## Points of issue
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York, 2011. The first printing states 'First Edition, 2011' on the copyright page accompanied by a full number line beginning with 1, with the FSG colophon present and the first-issue jacket carrying the printed flap price.

## Is this the true first?
The US FSG 2011 hardcover is the true first; the UK Fourth Estate edition follows. Eugenides's third novel, after The Virgin Suicides and Middlesex.

## Telling it from reprints & book-club editions
No separate book-club edition is a concern here. Later printings are shown by a shortened number line (the leading digits dropping away), and subsequent trade reprints appear as Picador paperbacks.

## Source
New Mexico Literacy Project — Is *The Marriage Plot* by Jeffrey Eugenides a first edition? https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-marriage-plot
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.