The Stranger Beside Me

The first printing carries both Norton's first-edition statement and a number line beginning with 1 on the copyright page — one ABAA-tier dealer records it as 'First edition, first printing (with publisher's requisite statement for former and number line starting with "1" both upon copyright page),' and a second independently describes the first printing as having the 'full number line to "1".' The number line is the point to test rather than the statement alone: Norton's house practice was to use a first-edition statement without noting later printings, and Norton is documented as having occasionally failed to strip that statement from subsequent printings, so a stated 'First Edition' with a broken or absent low digit is not a first