Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly

US precedence: the Bloomsbury USA New York edition was published 22 May 2000 and Bourdain's book is a US first publication (it grew out of his 1999 New Yorker piece). The first UK edition — Bloomsbury, London, 2000, ISBN 0-7475-5072-7 (the 0-7475-5001-2/0747553556 numbers attach to related Bloomsbury UK issues), black cloth boards stamped in red foil — is a separate, collected edition but follows the US. The census note that the two are "the same setting" was NOT confirmed by any source consulted and should not be published; the two are separately identified by dealers and carry distinct ISBNs and number-line conventions. Buy the US for the true first; buy the UK only as the first UK.