A Perfect Spy

The census claim holds. The Hodder & Stoughton (London) 1986 edition is the true first and precedes the Alfred A. Knopf (New York) 1986 American edition. Both editions are collected: the Hodder as the true first, the Knopf as the American first. The Knopf is separately identifiable because Knopf has consistently stated "First Edition" on the copyright page since the mid-1930s. Hodder additionally issued a signed limited edition of 250 numbered copies in 1986, bound in cloth and issued without a dust jacket — a distinct issue collected alongside the trade first rather than a substitute for it.