Jove Books is a publisher active from 1988. We track 3 editions it published between 1988 and 2004, 3 of them first editions across 3 books. How Jove marked its first editions is set out below, with a checker for the year on your title page.
Holding a copy? The first edition checker shows Jove Books's practice for the year on your title page.
Identification
How to identify Jove Books first editions
What to look for
Jove Books is the same house as Jove; the marks below are its.
Jove copyright pages carry a dated line such as "First Jove edition published November 1980". The line stays on later printings, so it dates the first Jove edition, not the copy in hand.
Books issued from 1977 to 1979, while Harcourt Brace Jovanovich owned the list, are styled "Jove/HBJ".
By 1980 Jove copyright pages carry a number row (10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1). The lowest number shown is the printing, so a first printing has the 1.
The Funhouse (1980) was also issued as a 214-page hardback book club edition; that is a later edition, not the Jove first.
