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This is a true first: Profile Books published SPQR in London on 20 October 2015 as a hardback in a dust jacket, ISBN 978-1-84668-380-0, a few weeks before the Liveright hardback from New York (9 November 2015, ISBN 978-0-87140-423-7), which is the American first. Check for the Profile Books imprint and the 9781846683800 ISBN. The Profile paperback of 2016 (ISBN 978-1-84668-381-7) is not the first edition. Check the copyright page for a first impression; later impressions of the hardback were issued. No issue points or print run have been published.
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