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Comment by ppint.:

penguin books ltd. peacock books first printing, first p/b or first uk p/b edition

cover art by "marion" (unsigned, credited; sfaiaa not as-yet further identified)
b+w 2pp. frontispiece the palace of malplaquet by raymond mcgrath (as endpapers in the h/cvr)
cover price 4/-
208pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp.

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Comment by ppint.:

jonathan cape first printing, first uk h/cvr edition

dedication: for amaryllis virginia garnett

cover (d-j) art (b+w line-drawn elevation of a domed front doorway - possibly of the "repose", with pillars & sidelights, etc., upon a greyish-blue field)
the palace of malplaquet (3-D view b+w map front & rear endpapers) by raymond mcgrath
cover (d-j) price 8/6
224pp. including titles, indicia etc, bound with b+w map endpapers between (slightly greenish-) grey cloth-covered boards, title, author & jonathan cape logo on spine in deep red ink

refer to indicia publishing history to distinguish from at least one near-identical reprinting in 1958

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Comment by ppint.:

wm collins sons first printing, first omnibus edition and the first publication of #4 in the series

omnibus of the four novels, three more-or-less revised (or even rewritten), in the eponymous series, q.v.

cover (d-j) art: none, cover is typographical upon a designed decorated horizontally-divided field
cover (d-j) price 25/-
680pp? (check) including titles, indicia etc, bound with endpapers between covered boards


refer to indicia publishing history to see which of many printings is held; d-j art eventually changed

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Comment by ppint.:

the once and future king #1:

#1: "the sword in the stone" (1938), q.v.
#2: "the witch in the wood" (1939), q.v.
cut and revised - more-or-less rewritten - as:
#2a: "the queen of air and darkness" (1958), q.v.
#3: "the ill-made knight" (1941), q.v.
#4: "the candle in the wind" (1958), q.v.

omnibus of #1 (revised), #2a, #3 (revised), & #4:
#O: "the once and future king" (1958), q.v.

intended to be #5, drafted but abandoned, and parts subsumed Into various others in the series;
much later the - or a - draft published as a stand-alone book - which, n.b., it most decidedly is not:

#5: "the book of merlyn" (1977), q.v.

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Comment by ppint.:

collins 48 pall mall london h/cvr first printing, first edition

cover (d-j) art
cover (d-j) price 8/6
340pp. (check) including titles, indicia, table-of-contents etc, bound with endpapers between cloth-covered boards

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Comment by ppint.:

the once and future king #3

#1: "the sword in the stone" (1938), q.v.

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Comment by ppint.:

collins 48 pall mall london h/cvr first printing, first uk edition; stated © 1941, may be first edition

cover (d-j) art
cover (d-j) price
296pp. including titles, indicia, table-of-contents etc, bound with endpapers between red cloth-covered boards