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The book first appeared from Random House in New York in 1970. The British edition from The Bodley Head came out the same year as a hardback in dust jacket (ISBN 0-370-01301-8), ix, 504 pages, with a bibliography and index. The Bodley Head reprinted it under the same ISBN (one dealer lists an eighth impression of 1975), so look for 1970 and no later impression line on the copyright page. Some dealer listings attach this ISBN to Random House copies in error; check that the title page names The Bodley Head. No jacket price, edition statement or binding description was found in a reliable source, and the row should be checked against the British Library catalogue.
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Bodley Head, London, in 1970, in hardback.
Points of issue are listed only where at least two independent sources agree. Last reviewed 20 October 2026. Reviewed by Harriet Ellis; read how we check facts.
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