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Eona first appeared in April 2011, from Angus & Robertson in Australia (trade paperback) and Viking in New York (hardback, 19 April). In Britain it came out first under a different title, The Necklace of the Gods, as a Bantam Press (Transworld) trade paperback on 26 May 2011, ISBN 9780593061374, about 467 pages; a Bantam mass market paperback followed in February 2012. The young adult imprint David Fickling Books then issued it as Eona: Return of the Dragoneye on 4 August 2011, in hardback (ISBN 9780385616577, 448 pages) and trade paperback (ISBN 9780385616584); the Fickling hardback is the first UK hardback. Later UK issues are a smaller Fickling paperback (2012, ISBN 9781849920162) and a Corgi paperback (2014, ISBN 9780552572163).
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Bantam Press, London, in 2011, in paperback.
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