Along Came a Spider

The census claim is confirmed: the US Little, Brown, Boston, 1993 issue is the accepted true first. A separate UK first edition followed from HarperCollins, London, in 1993 (ISBN 0002241269) and is collected in its own right as the first British edition, but it does not hold precedence over the US issue. First-thus trap: the Warner mass-market paperback and the later film tie-in issues are reprints, not first editions, despite "first" language on some copies.