Her Body and Other Parties

The Graywolf Press trade paperback original (Minneapolis, 3 October 2017) is the true first, and the UK publisher's own copyright page concedes the point, reading "First published in the USA in 2017 by Graywolf Press". The census note's claim that there is "no true first hardcover" needs correcting: a hardcover does exist, but it follows rather than precedes. Powell's Books selected the collection as Indiespensable #70, which produced a Graywolf-made hardcover of roughly 2,000 copies in illustrated boards, signed by Machado on a tipped-in Powell's Indiespensable leaf and issued with an interview booklet; the box shipped November/December 2017, i.e. after the 3 October paperback, so it is a special issue and not the first edition. The UK edition is Serpent's Tail (London), ISBN 9781781259528, catalogued by the publisher as a hardback dated 14 December 2017 — but copies themselves state "First published in Great Britain in 2018 by Serpent's Tail" on the copyright page, with number line "1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2" and printed by Clays, St Ives; that 2017/2018 discrepancy between the publisher's catalogue and the book is unresolved and buyers should rely on the copy in hand. A Serpent's Tail B-format paperback (9781781259535) followed 3 January 2019.