NMLP P-037945 · True-first precedence · minted 2026-07-19
Heart-Shaped Box
Joe Hill · William Morrow, New York · 2007
US precedes UK — the census note's 'simultaneous' is NOT supported and is corrected here. William Morrow, New York, 13 February 2007 is the true first; the UK first is Gollancz (Orion), London, reported as 15 March 2007 (ISBN 9780752889184), roughly a month later. Both are collected: the Gollancz hardcover is the first UK edition and first impression, identified by its own full number line, and Gollancz additionally issued a signed slipcased limited state. Separately, Subterranean Press published a limited edition in 2011 — 300 cloth copies numbered 201-500 signed by Hill; a deluxe issue of 200 numbered 1-200, signed, adding the deleted first chapter as an appendix plus an exclusive author's afterword and two two-color illustrations; and 15 leatherbound copies lettered A-O in a custom traycase. A Lividian Publications signed slipcased limited of 1,750 followed in 2022. The census note is correct that the Subterranean issue is a separate later collected state, not the first edition.
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New Mexico Literacy Project — True-first precedence NMLP P-037945 for "Heart-Shaped Box" by Joe Hill (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-037945, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).