Part showing off my collection, part wanting to clear some things up re: editions and history, as it seems that that seems somewhat murky

A pretty comprehensive guide to early/first editions can be found \[here\](https://web.archive.org/web/20060508172239/http://www.markzdanielewski.info/hol/firsts.html). Additional highly useful info on early editions is available on the Danielewski forums 

\[here\](https://forums.markzdanielewski.com/forum/house-of-leaves/house-of-leaves-aa/3543-comprehensive-guide-to-printings-editions-isbn-s-etc) 

In the first photo are included an a blad—an early promotional excerpt of the work (left),—a first edition trade paperback (back), and one of the very limited trade paperback Black & Red printing (bottom)

I have seen very little information about the blad, mostly boiling down to its appearance in u/Bastard-Wolf's impressive collection of \[twenty-one separate editions\](https://www.reddit.com/r/bookporn/s/FsnXuGs4ri) (to the left of the Uncorrected Proof Copy) and, more recently, u/This-Flounder-9228's \[random encounter\](https://www.reddit.com/r/houseofleaves/s/v739rcEqEi) with it. There were slightly over 75 copies of the blad made (though precise number seems to be unknown), and it was distributed, it seems, throughout the late 90s (confirmed, in part, by the date Danielewski has signed it under). It covers the material up to the end of Chapter IV (p. 40), with pagination retained as it appears in the final. There are notes in the margins, in Danielewski's hand (pictures 2 through 4), where he clears up some things regarding the formatting. I have not yet had a chance to look through it more carefully for any more substantial differences

At the back on picture 1 is a first edition paperback of HoL. I have found no clear data for how many of these were printed, but they seem fewer and rarer to come by than the original run of 1500 hardback signed editions, listings for which are not difficult to find, though exceedingly expensive. There are several key giveaways in terms of appearance: the compass on the cover is empty; there is no text at the top of the cover (neither "National Bestseller," nor "Remastered Full-Colour Edition"); the pantheon logo on the back appears in white (picture 5); the "A Novel" at the bottom appears in white; on the Editions page appears the text "First Edition" in black (not crossed out), and below it the "key" lists "9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1," where the lowest number designates the printing (picture 6). As I have seen several posts about it, I have also included a photo of the top of page 360, where you can clearly see that \*\*house\*\* used to appear in blue, compared to black in editions from the "Full-Colour" on (pictures 7 & 8)

This first printing of paperbacks also came with a promotional Blow-In, advertising Poe's (Danielewski's sister's) \*Haunted\* album, which came out shortly after (picture 9)

Compared to it, the Black & Red edition has the compass filled in; the Pantheon Logo is in red; the text "A Novel" is still in white; the text "First Edition" appears in red and crossed out, whilst the "key" below reads "3 5 7 9 B 8 6 4 2 1" (picture 10). I believe there was only one printing of these, in June 2003, compared to several of the hardback ones both before and after. (Among the hardbacks, the 2nd Printing ("9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2"), signed by Danielewski (with a large blue Z, more rarely with JT) is most commonly found online)

Finally, for a more recent oddity: A small printing of the recent (December 2024) "Deluxe" British hardback had a print error, where the text on p. 518, which should have been printed in purple, was printed in red (picture 11). This was, I believe, most common amongst preorders. They released a 2nd batch shortly after, where this problem was fixed. Both the unfixed and fixed versions are listed as first printing (the key simply reads "1")

If anybody has any further questions, I'd be happy to answer!

On some Early Editions & Ephemera