Bridge Publications (CA), 1985 cover
Cover of the Bridge Publications (CA), 1985 edition of this book. The New Era 1986 jacket has not been photographed yet.
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Volume 2 of the Mission Earth series. The true first is the Bridge Publications hardback, Los Angeles, February 1986 (ISBN 0-88404-208-1), followed by a Bridge book club issue. The first British edition is the New Era Publications hardback in dust jacket, Tonbridge, Kent, October 1986, 431 pages, ISBN 87-7336-476-2. The binding is blue cloth boards with a red cloth spine lettered in gilt. A second impression of this hardback exists, so check the copyright page for the impression before treating a copy as the first printing. The New Era paperback of October 1988 (ISBN 1-870451-08-2, 477 pages) is a later edition.
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New Era, Tonbridge, in 1986, in hardback.
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