A Game of Thrones

Precedence between the US Bantam Spectra and the UK HarperCollins Voyager editions (both August 1996) is genuinely disputed. US advance/proof copies circulated at the June 1996 ABA convention, and George R.R. Martin himself regards the Bantam edition as the true first; most collectors treat the US Bantam trade hardcover -- with a far smaller first printing than later volumes in the series -- as the key collectible first. The UK Voyager hardcover (August 1996) has its own competing precedence claim and is collected as the first British edition with separate points. Both are legitimately 'a first'; identify whichever you hold and note the unsettled precedence.