Coyote Waits

The census claim is confirmed. Harper & Row, New York, 1990, is the true first; the UK first (Michael Joseph, London, 1991; ISBN 0-7181-3377-3) followed a year later, so US precedence is unambiguous. As with Talking God, a publisher's limited issue of the first edition is collected alongside the trade and should be named: ISBN 0-06-026370-4 (note the different ISBN from the trade), with a limitation leaf at [i] reading "Of the first edition of Coyote Waits five hundred copies have been specially bound and slipcased. Each copy is signed and numbered by the author," bound in tan boards with a royal-blue cloth spine and gilt spine lettering, in a Peter Thorpe-designed slipcase (volcanic mountain wreathed in flames against a night sky). Its copyright leaf reads "FIRST EDITION" without the trade code line, so absence of the line on that issue is correct, not a fault.