- Before autumn 1925 the press used no first-edition statement and did not record reprints consistently, so early firsts are hard to confirm.
- From autumn 1925 its books appeared under the Little, Brown imprint and followed that firm's practice. In the 1930s and 1940s a first printing carries a single line on the copyright page giving the month and year of publication; each later printing adds another dated line, so a copy with only one such line is a first printing.
- The 1997 first printing of Cold Mountain has a full number row running to 1 on the copyright page and the misprint "man-woman" for "mad-woman" on page 25.
- The first-printing jacket of Cold Mountain has a John Berendt blurb sticker on the front and four reviews on the back panel.
Publisher · founded 1971
Atlantic Monthly Press
Atlantic Monthly Press is a literary imprint founded in Boston in 1917 by The Atlantic Monthly, published through Little, Brown, independent from 1986 and part of Grove Atlantic since 1993.
- Editions tracked
- 43
- First editions
- 33
- Books
- 43
- Years
- 1923 to 2014
Atlantic Monthly Press is a publisher based in United States, founded in 1971. We track 43 editions it published between 1923 and 2014, 33 of them first editions across 43 books. How Atlantic Monthly Press marked its first editions is set out below, with a checker for the year on your title page.
About Atlantic Monthly Press
Atlantic Monthly Press is an American literary imprint founded in Boston in 1917 as the book publishing arm of The Atlantic Monthly magazine, and since 1993 part of the independent New York publisher Grove Atlantic.
From the autumn of 1925 its books were published under the Little, Brown and Company imprint, an arrangement Grove Atlantic's own timeline dates formally to 1934, and Little, Brown's first-edition practice applied to them. Early successes included Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall's Mutiny on the Bounty (1932).
In 1986 the press was separated from the magazine and became a fully independent publishing house, while Little, Brown kept the older Atlantic backlist. In 1993 Morgan Entrekin, with Joan Bingham, bought Grove Weidenfeld and merged it with Atlantic Monthly Press to form Grove Atlantic, which describes itself as an independent literary publisher since 1917.
The modern press published Charles Frazier's first novel Cold Mountain (1997), winner of the National Book Award for Fiction, and Grove Atlantic's lists of the period also took in Candace Bushnell's Sex and the City (1996), Mark Bowden's Black Hawk Down (1999) and Leif Enger's Peace Like a River (2001). Kiran Desai's The Inheritance of Loss, which Atlantic published in the US, won the Man Booker Prize in 2006. Atlantic Monthly Press remains a Grove Atlantic imprint alongside Grove Press and Black Cat, with Entrekin as president and publisher.
Holding a copy? The first edition checker shows Atlantic Monthly Press's practice for the year on your title page.
Identification
How to identify Atlantic Monthly Press first editions
Books
Published by Atlantic Monthly Press
Frequently asked questions
How do I identify an Atlantic Monthly Press first edition?
- Before autumn 1925 the press used no first-edition statement and did not record reprints consistently, so early firsts are hard to confirm. - From autumn 1925 its books appeared under the Little, Brown imprint and followed that firm's practice. In the 1930s and 1940s a first printing carries a single line on the copyright page giving the month and year of publication; each later printing adds an
How many Atlantic Monthly Press books does MyVolumes track?
We track 43 editions published by Atlantic Monthly Press, 33 of them first editions, across 43 books.
Where these facts come from
- first edition identification by publisher (Allen and Patricia Ahearn), ILAB (ilab.org)
- First Editions of Today and How to Tell Them (3rd edn), H. S. Boutell, Internet Archive, 1949 (archive.org)
- Timeline, Grove Atlantic (groveatlantic.com)
- Cold Mountain, The First Edition Rare Books (thefirstedition.com)
- Cold Mountain (first edition listing), AbeBooks (abebooks.co.uk)
- Cold Mountain, Downtown Brown Books (downtownbrown.com)
- Grove Atlantic, Wikipedia (en.wikipedia.org)
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