3 Stieg Larsson first editions are documented on this shelf, from The Girl Who Played with Fire (2006) to The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2008) across 2 different publishers. Each linked guide gives the points of issue that separate a true first printing of that Stieg Larsson 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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- The Girl Who Played with Fire — 2006 · NorstedtsFor the first English edition (MacLehose Press/Quercus, London, 2009, hardback): first printing is identified by a complete descending number line retaining the 1 on the copyright page. This is unusual for a British publisher, most of which use an odd/even line, so it warrants the corroboration found: independent AbeBooks dealers grade the MacLehose Millennium printings by progressive removal from the bottom of a…. The census claim is upheld. Norstedts, Stockholm, 2006 (Flickan som lekte med elden) is the original-language true first, published posthumously. In English, the UK MacLehose Press/Quercus hardback of January 2009 precedes the US Alfred A. Knopf edition of 2009 — Rare Antiquarian Books catalogues the MacLehose 2009 first and states expressly that it preceded the US edition, and Eureka Books catalogues the Knopf…. No book-club issue is documented in the sources consulted. Two reprint/'first thus' traps are documented instead. First, the 2010 MacLehose deluxe boxed set gathers REVISED hardback editions of the three novels with maps plus a fourth essay volume; it is its own first impression (number line to 1) but is not the first edition of this novel. Second, the mass Vintage/Knopf and Quercus paperback reissues that….
- The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest — 2007 · NorstedtsFor the first English edition (MacLehose Press, London, 2009, hardback): first printing is identified by a complete descending number line retaining the 1 on the copyright page, consistent with the graded MacLehose Millennium printings documented by independent AbeBooks dealers (second printing drops to '...3 2', third to '...4 3', and so on). Physical points corroborated by Second Story Books, which catalogues…. The census claim is upheld. Norstedts, Stockholm, 2007 (Luftslottet som sprängdes) is the original-language true first, published posthumously. In English, the UK MacLehose Press/Quercus hardback of October 2009 precedes the US Alfred A. Knopf edition, published 25 May 2010 — a gap of roughly seven months, wider and less contestable than on the sibling volume. Christopher MacLehose held the global…. No book-club issue is documented in the sources consulted. The documented traps are the 2010 MacLehose deluxe boxed set, which contains REVISED hardback texts with maps plus a fourth essay volume and is a separate first impression of that set rather than the first edition of this novel, and the post-film Quercus/Vintage paperback reissues carrying the original dates. On the UK first, a number line no longer….
- The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo — 2008 · MacLehose Press / QuercusFirst English-language edition: the UK hardcover, MacLehose Press / Quercus, London, 2008, translated by Reg Keeland — a pseudonym of Steven T. Murray, who adopted it because he objected to the publisher's editing of his text (the UK house 'prettified' his translation). The reliable first-printing identifier is a complete number line ending in 1 on the copyright page. This UK edition precedes the first American…. World true first is the Swedish original, Män som hatar kvinnor ('Men Who Hate Women'), Norstedts, Stockholm, 2005, published posthumously (Larsson died in 2004). For English collectors the UK MacLehose/Quercus 2008 is the first English edition and the sought issue; the first American is Alfred A. Knopf, September 2008. Both English firsts are dated 2008 — the UK precedes the US. No book-club edition is the trap here; the trap is conflating three firsts. Distinguish the Swedish true first (Norstedts 2005) from the UK first-English (Quercus/MacLehose 2008, number line ending in 1) from the US first-American (Knopf 2008). The US Knopf is NOT the first English-language printing — the UK edition precedes it.
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