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ppint. 5th Jun 2021
| | first victor gollancz h/cvr printing, first edition
cover (d-j) art by eddi gornall (credited on d-j rear flap)
cover (d-j) price £8.95
256pp? including titles, indicia etc, end pp. sewn in signatures and bound with endpapers between cloth-covered boards
(edit 1/2023:
there is a later h/cvr edition° from orion group on the gollancz imprint that indicates it is the first printing: its d-j refers to this novel as being a prize-winner - of a prize awarded after the publication date of the first edition indicated.
° i've a copy that i must examine more closely to see if it's the first printing re-jacketed, or indeed a later printing misrepresented.)
(edit 2/2023: it's the latter.) |
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ppint. 9th Feb 2023
| | harpercollinspublishers grafton imprint uk p/b, second 1990 printing, fourth grafton uk p/b printing, with new
cover art by geoff taylor (unsigned, credited on back cover)
cover price £3.50, $8.95 australia, $14.95 new zealand, $5.95 canada
320pp. (re-check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising (this comment is from another edition of this book) |
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ppint. 9th Feb 2023
| | william collins & sons publishing group grafton books imprint open market p/b edition
cover art (by john howe?) of a white owl in flight out of woods towards the viewer differs from the uk (etc.) first p/b cover (this comment is from another edition of this book) |
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ppint. 9th Feb 2023
| | orion publishing group gollancz imprint undated° h/cvr first printing, not first uk h/cvr edition
despite indicia publishing history including printing number line 1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2
° - only dates given are the copyright and first publication date of 1984, and an assertion in accordance with the copyright, designs and patents act, 1988; as this edition bears an isbn13 it must be post-2002
dedication: for sarah cariath ganuch trymllyd bwystfil
cover (d-j) art (unsigned, uncredited)
cover (d-j) price £14.99
304pp. including eight unpaginated pp. titles, indicia (ha!) etc, perfectbound with endpapers between cloth-covered boards with title, oak leaf, author & VG logo°° in red metallic ink on spine
°° despite bearing the VG logo on the spine, the imprint on title page and in the indicia is gollancz (this comment is from another edition of this book) |
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ppint. 20th Jun 2021
| | major expansion to novel length from the eponymous novelette in f&sf vol.61 #3, 9/81
(cover story, art by barbara berger) (this comment is from another edition of this book) |
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ppint. 5th Jun 2021
| | nth printing of the 1986 grafton/panther books typesetting, still bearing the panther books isbn
cover art by john howe
cover price £6.99 (no overseas territories prices?)
320pp. including titles, indicia etc, end p. advertising (this comment is from another edition of this book) |
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ppint. 5th Jun 2021
| | simon & schuster uk earthlight imprint p/b first printing, not first uk p/b edition
cover art by larry rostant
cover price £6.99
320pp. including titles, indicia etc, end p. advertising (this comment is from another edition of this book) |
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ppint. 5th Jun 2021
| | collins publishing group grafton books grafton uk p/b printing, first uk p/b; probapossibly preceded by the grafton books open market p/b printing which bears different cover art; else first p/b edition
cover art by peter goodfellow (credited)
cover price £2.50, australia $6.95, new zealand $9.95, canada $4.95
320pp. including titles, indicia etc, end p. blank (this comment is from another edition of this book) |
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