A Court of Mist and Fury

Census claim corrected in an important respect. Publication was indeed same-day on both sides of the Atlantic — 3 May 2016 — but 'Bloomsbury simultaneous US/UK' is true of the date only, not the format: the US Bloomsbury USA Children's issue is a HARDCOVER, while the simultaneous Bloomsbury (UK) issue, ISBN 978-1-4088-5788-5, is a trade PAPERBACK, the ACOTAR series having been published as paperback originals in Britain. There is therefore no UK hardcover trade first to contend for precedence, and the collected first is unambiguously the US hardcover. The census is right that book 2 is a genuinely collected first printing in its own right and does not ride on book 1.