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The British first is the Hodder & Stoughton hardback, ISBN 978-1-4736-4676-6, published on 30 July 2019, the same day as the American Del Rey hardback (978-0-425-28594-7). Check the Hodder imprint and the ISBN on the copyright page. The ebook (978-1-4736-4675-9) came out the same day, and the Hodder paperback of February 2020 (978-1-4736-4678-0, 757 pages) is a later issue, not a first.
Early Hodder & Stoughton books have no consistent first-edition marking, so they are identified title by title from the points recorded for each book rather than by a house rule.
Allen and Patricia Ahearn's publisher list for ILAB says that before the 1940s the firm had no consistent practice for marking first editions or later printings. Ash Rare Books, writing about H. S. Boutell's 1928 guide, records that Hodder told Boutell its methods varied with every book.
Read the full guide to Hodder & Stoughton first editions, decade by decade, and check your copy's copyright page against it. Our number line decoder reads the printing from the row of numbers.
We have not yet confirmed the issue points that tell this first impression from later ones. Until we do, compare your copy's title page and copyright page with the publisher, place and year above: any later printing or edition statement means it is not this one.
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Hodder & Stoughton, in 2019.
Points of issue are listed only where at least two independent sources agree. Last reviewed 10 November 2026. Reviewed by Harriet Ellis; read how we check facts.
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