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First published in London by Macmillan in 1993 (ISBN 0 333 58031 1), the same year as the Delacorte edition in New York (ISBN 0 385 31121 4), which is a separate American first. The British hardback runs to about 432 numbered pages and was issued in a dust jacket. Signed copies, usually signed on the title page, command a premium.
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Allen and Patricia Ahearn's publisher list for ILAB says the early books carried no first edition statement but noted subsequent printings. ILAB's St Martin's Press article, drawing on a Macmillan statement of 1982, describes the same reprint history on the reverse of the title page and a "First published (year) by (imprint)" line on first editions from about 1968.
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Macmillan, London, in 1993, in hardback.
Points of issue are listed only where at least two independent sources agree. Last reviewed 23 October 2026. Reviewed by Harriet Ellis; read how we check facts.
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