Dream Work first edition cover, Atlantic Monthly Press 1986

First edition Hardback

Dream Work (1986)

Mary Oliver · Atlantic Monthly Press, Boston · Updated 20 Oct 2026

Publisher Atlantic Monthly Press Year 1986 ISBN 9780871130716

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Quick answer

Who published the Dream Work first edition?: Atlantic Monthly Press, Boston, in 1986, in hardback.

Publisher's practice

How Atlantic Monthly Press marked its first editions

Before autumn 1925 the press used no first-edition statement and did not record reprints consistently, so early firsts are hard to confirm.
From autumn 1925 its books appeared under the Little, Brown imprint and followed that firm's practice. In the 1930s and 1940s a first printing carries a single line on the copyright page giving the month and year of publication; each later printing adds another dated line, so a copy with only one such line is a first printing.
The 1997 first printing of Cold Mountain has a full number row running to 1 on the copyright page and the misprint "man-woman" for "mad-woman" on page 25.
The first-printing jacket of Cold Mountain has a John Berendt blurb sticker on the front and four reviews on the back panel.

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Who published the Dream Work first edition?

Atlantic Monthly Press, Boston, in 1986, in hardback.

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