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The American first is Disney Hyperion, New York, 4 May 2010, ISBN 978 1 4231 1338 6, with jacket art by John Rocco. The British first is the Puffin hardback, London, 2010, in a dust jacket, ISBN 978 0 14 138494 8. The British Library record for the Penguin 2010 edition lists this ISBN with a second print ISBN, 978 0 14 138495 5, whose format it does not state. The Puffin paperback, ISBN 978 0 14 132550 7, followed in 2011 and the graphic novel adaptation in 2012, so neither is the first. Check the Puffin imprint and ISBN on the copyright page; ex library copies without the jacket are common.
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Puffin, London, in 2010, 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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