# Is "The Wild Iris" by Louise Glück a First Edition?

> **Quick answer.** A first edition of The Wild Iris by Louise Glück (The Ecco Press, 1992) is identified by: Won the 1993 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry (Glück later received the 2020 Nobel Prize in Literature). US Ecco (1992) is the true first; the clothbacked hardback in dust jacket is the collector's first.

**Checklist — a true first has these:**
- Won the 1993 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry (Glück later received the 2020 Nobel Prize in Literature)
- The true first is the Ecco Press hardcover of 1992 (Hopewell, NJ), with 'first edition' stated on the copyright page, bound in yellow boards with a cloth backstrip lettered in gilt and a pictorial dust jacket
- A first paperback printing was also issued
- Publisher imprint reads The Ecco Press
- Not a book-club edition (see below)

| | |
|---|---|
| Author | Louise Glück |
| Publisher | The Ecco Press |
| Year | 1992 |
| True first | US edition |
| Format | Poetry |
| Key point | Won the 1993 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry (Glück later received the 2020 Nobel Prize in Literature) |
| Book-club edition exists? | No |

## Points of issue
Won the 1993 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry (Glück later received the 2020 Nobel Prize in Literature). The true first is the Ecco Press hardcover of 1992 (Hopewell, NJ), with 'first edition' stated on the copyright page, bound in yellow boards with a cloth backstrip lettered in gilt and a pictorial dust jacket. A first paperback printing was also issued.

## Is this the true first?
US Ecco (1992) is the true first; the clothbacked hardback in dust jacket is the collector's first.

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

## Source
New Mexico Literacy Project — Is *The Wild Iris* by Louise Glück a first edition? https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/the-wild-iris
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.