cover art by tim white (unsigned, credited on back cover, retained from first printing)
cover price 80p, $2.75 australia, $2.60 new zealand, $2.50 canada
176pp. including titles, indica etc, end pp. advertising (this comment is from another edition of this book)
new english library p/b first printing, first uk edition
cover art by tim white (unsigned, credited on back cover, attributed in ''the flights of icarus'' martyn dean, roger dean, donald lehmkuhl (uk 1977), q.v.)
cover price 75p, $1.95 australia, $2.45 new zealand, $2.25 canada
176pp. including titles, indica etc, end pp. advertising
tim white's art is cunningly transformed into a non-wraparound cover by replacing the narrow strip of the mainly dark picture that would've fallen on the spine with a black ground for the title, author, logo, cat#. . . (this comment is from another edition of this book)
half new english library impromptu ''double'' pairing unbound (or possibly stripped, but i don't think so) carcases of the 4/1979 new english library p/b of this novel with those of the 7/1978 new english library p/b printing of ''thorns'', q.v.
cover art by tim white, tim white & tim white, as described in the other half bookcat item linked to above
cover price £1.25
360pp.(check) including 2 x title pages, 2 x indica etc, end pp. advertising (this comment is from another edition of this book)
near-identical editions/printings sharing merkin-printed covers, and hence also cat# and
cover art by gene szafran (unattributed, cover art signed)
cover price 75¢
144pp. including titles, indica etc.
refer to indica to see whether carcass of copy held was canadadian- or merkin- printed:
further, the canadadian-printed copies are, logically, stated to be the second printing, and this line is dated, whilst the merkin-printed copies are stated to be the third printing, new american library usa apparently retrospectively accounting the canadadian first printing as the second printing over-all.
no priority established, nor liable to be.
cover design and art retained through the fifth (us)/sixth (canada) joint printing, W8149, isbn 0451-08149-8, $1.50, 1978 by interpolation.
(cover art changes to being by paul alexander on nal's simultaneous seventh (us)/eighth (canada) joint printing, AE2022, isbn 0451-12022-1, $2.25 (us), $2.75 (canada), early 1983 by interpolation.) (this comment is from another edition of this book)