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Not the true first: Random House, New York, published the American first in 2012 (ISBN 9780812992793). The first British edition is the Doubleday hardback of February 2012, 464 pages, ISBN 0857520555, issued in a dust jacket. UK dealers offer it as first edition, first impression; check that the copyright page states no later impression and that the jacket is unclipped. The British paperback has a different ISBN (9780857520562) and is not a first.
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.
Read the full guide to Doubleday 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.
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Doubleday, London, Great Britain, in 2012, in hardback.
Points of issue are listed only where at least two independent sources agree. Last reviewed 21 October 2026. Reviewed by Harriet Ellis; read how we check facts.
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