Traplines first edition cover, Henry Holt 1996

First edition Hardback

Traplines (1996)

Eden Robinson · Henry Holt, New York

Publisher Henry Holt Year 1996 ISBN 9780805044461

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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 Traplines first edition?: Henry Holt, New York, in 1996, in hardback.

Publisher's practice

How Henry Holt marked its first editions

This covers Henry Holt and Company and, from 1960 to 1985, Holt, Rinehart and Winston, the name used after the merger with Rinehart & Company and the John C. Winston Company.
Up to the mid 1940s Holt did not usually state first editions: a first printing is identified by the lack of any later-printing note on the copyright page.
From about 1945 Holt usually printed a first-edition statement on the copyright page. One guide dates the change to 1924 and says it was applied unevenly, so check books of 1924 to 1945 for reprint notes too.
Holt, Rinehart and Winston books of the 1960s mostly state the first edition, except copies made outside the United States, which carry no statement.
From the 1970s Holt, Rinehart and Winston used a first-edition statement with a number row, and Henry Holt has done the same since 1985.
A number row counts printings: the lowest number left in the row gives the printing, so a row that still includes "1" points to a first printing.
Book club copies (a general tell for US trade houses; no mark specific to this house was found): a jacket flap with no printed price is the commonest sign, though a printed price does not on its own rule out a club copy. Also look for a small blind stamp, such as a dot or square, pressed into the rear board, and for a book that is smaller and more cheaply made than the trade edition.

Read the full guide to Henry Holt 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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1996

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Who published the Traplines first edition?

Henry Holt, New York, in 1996, in hardback.

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