St. Martin's Paperbacks is the mass-market paperback line of New York's St. Martin's Press, now part of Macmillan, used for genre fiction such as Sherrilyn Kenyon's Dark-Hunter novels.
St. Martin's Paperbacks is a publisher active from 1992. We track 40 editions it published between 1992 and 2017, 35 of them first editions across 40 books. How St. Martin's Paperbacks marked its first editions is set out below, with a checker for the year on your title page.
About St. Martin's Paperbacks
St. Martin's Paperbacks is the mass-market paperback imprint of St. Martin's Press, the New York publisher, and its list includes genre fiction such as Sherrilyn Kenyon's Dark-Hunter novels.
St. Martin's Press itself was set up in 1952 by the British firm Macmillan, a year after Macmillan had sold its stake in the American Macmillan company, and it took its name from St Martin's Lane in London. In 1984 it became the first major trade publisher to put its own hardcovers into mass-market paperback through an in-house company, St. Martin's Mass Market Paperback Co., Inc. In 1987 St. Martin's bought Tor-Forge Books.
The paperback line carries both reprints and originals. Kenyon's Dark-Hunter books were taken on by St. Martin's in 1999; some, such as Night Play (2004), first appeared as St. Martin's Paperbacks, while later titles such as Dark Side of the Moon (2006) came out in hardcover first and were then reissued in the paperback line.
Macmillan, St. Martin's included, was sold to the German Holtzbrinck group in 1995. St. Martin's Press now belongs to Macmillan Publishers in the United States and is based in the Equitable Building at 120 Broadway, Manhattan.
Holding a copy? The first edition checker shows St. Martin's Paperbacks's practice for the year on your title page.
Identification
How to identify St. Martin's Paperbacks first editions
What to look for
St. Martin's Paperbacks is a mass-market line, so first decide whether the book was a paperback original or a reprint of a St. Martin's Press hardcover.
Reprints and originals
Some St. Martin's Paperbacks are reprints of St. Martin's Press hardcovers, and for those the hardcover is the first edition. Sherrilyn Kenyon's Dark Side of the Moon, for example, came out as a St. Martin's Press hardcover in 2006 and as a St. Martin's Paperbacks reprint in 2007.
Other titles were first published as St. Martin's Paperbacks, such as Kenyon's Night Play (New York, 2004), and for these the paperback is the first edition.
The hardcover parent
St. Martin's Press hardcovers before the early 1980s carry no first edition statement, but later printings are noted, so a copy with no printing history is the first.
From the early 1980s St. Martin's Press hardcovers use a first edition statement together with a number row, and a first printing includes 1.
How do I identify a St. Martin's Paperbacks first edition?
St. Martin's Paperbacks is a mass-market line, so first decide whether the book was a paperback original or a reprint of a St. Martin's Press hardcover. Reprints and originals - Some St. Martin's Paperbacks are reprints of St. Martin's Press hardcovers, and for those the hardcover is the first edition. Sherrilyn Kenyon's Dark Side of the Moon , for example, came out as a St. Martin's Press hardcov
How many St. Martin's Paperbacks books does MyVolumes track?
We track 40 editions published by St. Martin's Paperbacks, 35 of them first editions, across 40 books.
