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Night Watch is the 29th Discworld novel. The UK first is the Doubleday hardback in dust jacket, published in London on 7 November 2002, ISBN 0-385-60264-2. The American HarperCollins hardback came out on 5 November 2002 (ISBN 0-06-001311-7) and is a separate edition, so check the imprint and ISBN. The UK jacket art by Paul Kidby parodies Rembrandt's painting The Night Watch; it was the first main-sequence Discworld novel without a Josh Kirby cover. Dealers sell the Doubleday London 2002 hardback as first edition, first printing; check that the jacket price corner is present, as some copies are price clipped.
Doubleday's British list is an imprint of Transworld Publishers in London, and its books are identified the British way: a first impression is shown by a complete number line on the copyright page.
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Doubleday, London, in 2002, in hardback.
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