NOS4A2

US William Morrow, New York, 30 April 2013 is the true first. The UK Gollancz (London) edition was RETITLED 'NOS4R2' — the American vanity-plate reading of 'Nosferatu' does not work in British pronunciation — and was released later, in May 2013, so it does not compete for precedence despite sharing the year. Both are collected: the Morrow NOS4A2 as the true first, and the Gollancz NOS4R2 as the first UK edition under its variant title. The Gollancz first printing is a 689-page octavo with a black spine lettered in green metallic, ISBN 978-0-575-13067-8, with the publisher's number sequence present on the copyright page.