# Is "Finders, Keepers: Eight Collectors" by Stephen Jay Gould a First Edition?

> **Quick answer.** A first edition of Finders, Keepers: Eight Collectors by Stephen Jay Gould (W. W. Norton, 1992) is identified by: Norton first printing, 1992, with a number line ending in 1 and the printed price present on the dust jacket. US true first (W.

**Checklist — a true first has these:**
- W. W. Norton first printing, 1992, with a number line ending in 1 and the printed price present on the dust jacket
- An illustrated quarto issued in black cloth, with color photographs by Rosamond Wolff Purcell throughout; text by Gould, images by Purcell
- Publisher imprint reads W. W. Norton
- Not a book-club edition (see below)

| | |
|---|---|
| Author | Stephen Jay Gould |
| Publisher | W. W. Norton |
| Year | 1992 |
| True first | US edition |
| Format | Hardcover (trade) |
| Key point | W. W. Norton first printing, 1992, with a number line ending in 1 and the printed price present on the dust jacket |
| Book-club edition exists? | No |

## Points of issue
W. W. Norton first printing, 1992, with a number line ending in 1 and the printed price present on the dust jacket. An illustrated quarto issued in black cloth, with color photographs by Rosamond Wolff Purcell throughout; text by Gould, images by Purcell.

## Is this the true first?
US true first (W. W. Norton, ISBN 0393030547). A separate UK edition was issued by Hutchinson Radius the same year; the Norton is the US first. A later Norton paperback reissue was retitled 'Finders, Keepers: Treasures and Oddities of Natural History' (ISBN 0393310876) and is not the first.

## Telling it from reprints & book-club editions
No BCE.

## Source
New Mexico Literacy Project — Is *Finders, Keepers: Eight Collectors* by Stephen Jay Gould a first edition? https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/finders-keepers-eight-collectors
CC BY 4.0. Part of the Canonical First-Edition Points of Issue dataset (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/api/first-edition-titles.json). Last reviewed 2026-07-04.