The Devil's Candy first edition cover, Houghton Mifflin 1991

First edition Hardback

The Devil's Candy (1991)

Julie Salamon · Houghton Mifflin, Boston

Publisher Houghton Mifflin Year 1991 ISBN 9780395569962

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It is the first edition, which is the one collectors want.
The original dust jacket carries much of the price for a book of this age; its condition matters as much as the book's.
Condition is graded separately for book and jacket, from Fine down to Poor.

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Quick answer

Who published The Devil's Candy first edition?: Houghton Mifflin, Boston, in 1991, in hardback.

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How Houghton Mifflin marked its first editions

For most of its history Houghton Mifflin put the year on the title page of a first printing and took it off for later printings, so a copy with no title-page date is not a first printing.
Where a number row appears on the copyright page, the lowest figure is the printing, whatever order the figures run in (1 2 3 4 5, 1 3 5 4 2 or 5 4 3 2 1), so a row that still includes 1 normally means a first printing.
Book-of-the-Month Club copies are usually the same size and quality as the trade edition, so size is no guide. Look instead for a jacket with no price on the front flap and a small blind stamp (a dot, circle or square) low on the rear board. BOMC printed prices on some jackets in the 1970s, but those copies still carry the blind stamp.
A rear-board mark is not always a club sign: a few very large printings were shared between printing plants, each of which embossed its own mark.

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1991

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Who published The Devil's Candy first edition?

Houghton Mifflin, Boston, in 1991, in hardback.

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