# Is "Island Beneath the Sea" by Isabel Allende a First Edition?

> **Quick answer.** A first edition of Island Beneath the Sea by Isabel Allende (HarperCollins, 2010) is identified by: US HarperCollins first edition, published April 27, 2010, with a full number line ending in 1 on the copyright page and the printed price present on the priced jacket flap. First English-language edition of La isla bajo el mar (2009).

**Checklist — a true first has these:**
- US HarperCollins first edition, published April 27, 2010, with a full number line ending in 1 on the copyright page and the printed price present on the priced jacket flap
- Translated from the Spanish by Margaret Sayers Peden
- Publisher imprint reads HarperCollins
- Not a book-club edition (see below)

| | |
|---|---|
| Author | Isabel Allende |
| Publisher | HarperCollins |
| Year | 2010 |
| True first | US edition |
| Format | Hardcover (trade) |
| Key point | US HarperCollins first edition, published April 27, 2010, with a full number line ending in 1 on the copyright page and the printed price… |
| Book-club edition exists? | No |

## Points of issue
US HarperCollins first edition, published April 27, 2010, with a full number line ending in 1 on the copyright page and the printed price present on the priced jacket flap. Translated from the Spanish by Margaret Sayers Peden.

## Is this the true first?
First English-language edition of La isla bajo el mar (2009). The US HarperCollins hardcover (April 2010) and the UK Fourth Estate hardcover both appeared in 2010; the US HarperCollins edition is generally treated as the first in English, identified by its complete number line to 1.

## Telling it from reprints & book-club editions
No notable book-club edition affects the first-edition identification; a UK Fourth Estate edition of the same year is a separate first thus, distinguished by its own ISBN and imprint rather than being a later printing of the US book.

## Source
New Mexico Literacy Project — Is *Island Beneath the Sea* by Isabel Allende a first edition? https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/island-beneath-the-sea
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.