The Charm School

The census claim is correct: the true first is Warner Books, New York, April 1988. The first UK edition is Grafton Books (London), 1988, issued after the Warner and collected as the first British edition only; a Guild Publishing (UK book club) issue also carries a 1988/1989 date and is not a first. Later Time Warner / Little, Brown UK and Grand Central reissues, and the G. K. Hall large-print, are reprints — descriptions of them as 'first thus' should be disregarded. Page counts differ between the Warner (533 pp.) and later UK settings (687 pp.), which is a useful sanity check against a UK reprint being offered as the first.