Paper Towns

The census claim is confirmed and can be stated more strongly. Dutton US (16 October 2008) is the unambiguous true first — the Bloomsbury UK edition did not follow until 3 May 2010, so there is no UK/US precedence or simultaneity question here. On the two jackets: both were issued on the original American hardcover and both count as first-edition jackets; neither has precedence. Dealers consistently describe the yellow "happy Margo" as the harder to find of the two, but no published census establishes relative scarcity, so treat that as trade opinion rather than fact. The third familiar Margo cover belongs to the 2009 US paperback and is not a first-edition jacket — a first-edition book in that jacket is a marriage.