Sharp Objects

Census claim confirmed as to the accepted first, with a caveat the census did not flag. The US Shaye Areheart Books edition (New York, published 26 September 2006) is the accepted true first — Flynn is American and publisher and reference records give the US as the country of first publication. But the UK first from Weidenfeld & Nicolson (London) is also dated 2006 — green boards with silver spine lettering, ISBN 0-297-85152-7 — and is separately collected; no source consulted supplies a month for the W&N release (dealer listings show a database-default "January 1, 2006"), so US-vs-UK precedence within 2006 is not settled at month level on published evidence. First-thus traps: the Broadway Books reissue (2013) and the later W&N and television tie-in printings.