Title: The Blade Itself Title Record # 351961
Author: Joe Abercrombie
Date: 2006-05-04
Type: NOVEL
Series: The First Law Trilogy
Series Number: 1
Language: English
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Translations

Year Language Title 2007ⓘTranslated by Kirsten Borchardt German Kriegsklingen 2008ⓘTranslated by Lia Belt Dutch De macht van het zwaard 2010ⓘTranslated by Brigitte Mariot French Premier sang 2010ⓘTranslated by Александър Ганчев (Aleksandar Ganchev) Bulgarian Гласът на острието?Glasat na ostrieto [as by Джо Абъркромби?Dzho Abarkrombi ] 2014ⓘTranslated by Nikola Pajvančić Serbian Osveta [as by Džo Aberkrombi?Dzho Aberkrombi ] 2017ⓘTranslated by Laura Bocancios of ''The Blade Itself'' Romanian Tăișul sabiei?Taisul sabiei

Awards

Place	Year and Award	Category
9	2007 Locus	Best First Novel
Nomination	2008 Crook	Compton Crook Award (Balticon - Best 1st Novel)

Publications

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Title	Date	Author/Editor	Publisher/Pub. Series	ISBN/Catalog ID	Price	Pages	Format	Type	Cover Artist	Verif
The Blade Itself	2006-05-00	Joe Abercrombie	Gollancz / Orion	0-575-07785-9	£18.99?£: UK pound	432	hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	novel	Laura Brett
The Blade Itself	2006-05-00	Joe Abercrombie	Gollancz	0-575-07786-7	£9.99?£: UK pound	422	tp?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	novel	Laura Brett
The Blade Itself	2007-03-00	Joe Abercrombie	Gollancz / Orion	0-575-07979-7	£7.99?£: UK pound	536	tp?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	novel	Laura Brett
The Blade Itself	2007-09-00	Joe Abercrombie	Pyr / Prometheus Books	1-59102-594-X	$15.00?$: US dollar	529	tp?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	novel	Laura Brett
The Blade Itself	2008-10-00	Joe Abercrombie	Pyr / SFBC	978-1-60751-229-5 / 1251517	$12.99?$: US dollar	527	hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	novel	Laura Brett
The Blade Itself	2009-06-18	Joe Abercrombie	Gollancz	978-0-575-09150-4	£1.99?£: UK pound		ebook?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF.	novel
The Blade Itself	2009-10-00	Joe Abercrombie	Gollancz	978-0-575-09108-5	£7.99?£: UK pound	617	pb?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	novel	Chris McGrath
The Blade Itself	2010-03-31	Joe Abercrombie	Subterranean Press	978-1-59606-300-6	$60.00?$: US dollar	525	hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	novel	Alexander Preuss
The Blade Itself	2011-00-00	Joe Abercrombie	Pyr / Prometheus Books	978-1-59102-594-8	$15.98?$: US dollar	531	tp?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	novel	Laura Brett
The First Law Trilogy	2012-08-30	Joe Abercrombie	Gollancz	978-0-575-09296-9	£27.00?£: UK pound	1008	tp?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	omni
The First Law Trilogy	2012-08-30	Joe Abercrombie	Gollancz	978-0-575-13259-7	£27.00?£: UK pound	1600	tp?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	omni
The First Law Trilogy	2012-08-30	Joe Abercrombie	Gollancz	978-0-575-08622-7	£13.99?£: UK pound		ebook?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF.	omni
The Blade Itself	2015-09-00	Joe Abercrombie	Orbit (US)	978-0-316-38731-6	$15.99?$: US dollar		tp?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	novel
The Blade Itself	2015-09-08	Joe Abercrombie	Orbit (US)	978-0-316-38733-0	$6.99?$: US dollar		ebook?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF.	novel
The Blade Itself	2015-09-08	Joe Abercrombie	Hachette Audio	978-1-4789-0781-7	$24.99?$: US dollar		digital audio download?Digital recording in any format that is downloaded directly from the Internet. This category includes podcasts.	novel
The Blade Itself	2016-09-15	Joe Abercrombie	Gollancz	978-1-4732-1678-5	£14.99?£: UK pound	656	hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	novel
The First Law Trilogy	2016-11-15	Joe Abercrombie	Orbit (US)	978-0-316-36119-4	$39.99?$: US dollar	1680	tp?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	omni
The Blade Itself	2018-00-00	Joe Abercrombie	Orbit (US)	978-0-316-38731-6	$15.99?$: US dollar	501	tp?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	novel	Greg Ruth
The Blade Itself	2022-06-23	Joe Abercrombie	Gollancz	978-1-3996-0430-7	£20.00?£: UK pound	432	hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	novel
The Blade Itself	date unknown	Joe Abercrombie	Orbit (US)	978-0-316-38731-6	$15.99?$: US dollar	542	tp?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	novel

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Reviews

• Review by Siobhan Carroll (2006) in Strange Horizons, 14 August 2006
• Review by Faren Miller (2006) in Locus, #548 September 2006
• Review by Paul Witcover (2008) in Realms of Fantasy, February 2008
• Review [Dutch] by Jos Lexmond (2009) in Holland-SF 2009, #3
• Review by Norman Spinrad (2009) in Asimov's Science Fiction, October-November 2009