Creepshow

The US Plume/NAL softcover of July 1982 is the true first; no British first-edition claim competes with it, and the later Gallery Books reissue (ISBN 978-1-5011-6322-7) is a reprint. Correcting the census note: 'no hardcover' overstates the case — a scarce oversize hardcover issue bearing the same first-printing points is reported by dealers and collector references for 1982. That hardcover is uncommon and thinly documented, so treat any hardcover offered as requiring examination of the copyright page against the trade points above before it is called a first.