First edition, first printing, and in the first issue dustwrapper. Publisher’s black paper-covered boards, lettered silver, in the first issue dustwrappr, with the photograph of Celaena to the upper panel.
 
A near fine copy in a near fine dustwrapper.
 
Sarah J. Maas is the most influential fantasy novelist to emerge since George R.R. Martin, and this a rare example of the first edition, first issue of her debut novel, marks that arrival.  Throne of Glass was first published in 2012 by Bloomsbury USA in the USA. It had originally been written and uploaded to the website FictionPress under the title Queen Of Glass, and became one of the most popular stories on the website. For its original publication, it was issued in what collectors term the ’Barbie’ dustwrapper, with a photograph of Celaena to the upper cover.  The simultaneous UK edition, a paperback, carried instead an illustrated figure of Celaena by the Italian concept artist Alessandro Taini (Talexi), and this proved far the more popular image.  Bloomsbury USA adopted it for the American paperback of Throne of Glass in May 2013 and for the hardbacks of Crown of Midnight (2013) and Heir of Fire (2014), and, as readers wanted matching sets, subsequently reissued the Throne of Glass hardback under its original ISBN with a Taini jacket, the publisher’s catalogue copy describing it as “now available in hardcover with a new look to match the series”.  Copies such as this, first printing, first issue jacket and in near fine condition, are scarce. Since her debut, Maas has added seven books to this series, as well as publishing A Court Of Thorn And Roses and Crescent City.