3 Colleen Hoover first editions are documented on this shelf, from Slammed (2012) to It Starts with Us (2022) across 3 different publishers. Each linked guide gives the points of issue that separate a true first printing of that Colleen Hoover title from later printings and book-club copies — the publisher and year to expect, the number-line or edition-statement conventions, and the tells that show up in online listings.
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- Slammed — 2012 · Self-published via CreateSpaceThe true first print appearance is Hoover's self-published CreateSpace print-on-demand paperback of 2012 (ISBN 9781468161663; 310 pp.), preceding the Atria trade edition. As a print-on-demand title it carries no edition statement and no number line, and POD copies are struck on demand, so individual 'printings' cannot be distinguished bibliographically — identification rests on the object itself: the CreateSpace…. The self-published CreateSpace paperback (January 2012) is the true first of Hoover's debut; the Simon & Schuster / Atria Books paperback (August 10, 2012) is a 'first thus' — the first traditionally-published edition — not the true first. Both circulate, but only the CreateSpace 2012 issue is the original. Not applicable — no book-club edition of the self-published original exists; the collecting trap here is the Atria 2012 reissue, which is a first-thus reprint of the text rather than the true first.
- It Ends with Us — 2016 · Atria BooksAtria Books, 2016, issued as a trade paperback original with no simultaneous hardcover at publication. The true first is the Atria trade paperback dated August 2, 2016, with the copyright page noting the first Atria paperback edition and a full number line ending in 1 (ISBN 9781501110368, 367 pages). The defining BookTok-era romance. The Atria trade-paperback original is the true first; no first-printing hardcover existed at publication. Later collector and special-edition hardcovers are 'first thus.'. No book-club issue. Confirm the August 2016 first Atria paperback statement and the number line ending in 1. Later printings raise the cover price and break the line.
- It Starts with Us — 2022 · Atria BooksAtria Books, New York, published 18 October 2022, ISBN 978-1-6680-0122-6, 336 pp. — and the decisive fact is that the US first is a TRADE PAPERBACK ORIGINAL, not a hardcover; no US hardcover trade first exists. The first printing is identified by a full number line on the copyright page ending in 1; dealers describe the true first as 'first edition, first printing, full number line present' and 'a true first…. Census claim refined. Same-day US/UK publication on 18 October 2022 is confirmed, but the point that matters is format, not date: Atria's US issue is the true first and is a trade paperback, while the Simon & Schuster UK issue of the same day is the first hardback. Both are collected and neither displaces the other. Describing this simply as 'Atria (US) 2022' invites the common error of hunting a US hardcover…. No book-club edition is documented. The 'first thus' traps are unusually thick here. The US Special Collector's Edition hardcover (ISBN 978-1-6680-2105-7), with foil cover, designed endpapers and added recipes, is a 2024 production and is NOT a first edition, though it is the earliest US hardcover most buyers ever see. In Britain, retailer-exclusive first-impression hardbacks with a blue marbled fore-edge….
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