Seal Books/McClelland-Bantam, 1977 cover
Cover of the Seal Books/McClelland-Bantam, 1977 edition of this book. The Deutsch 1977 jacket has not been photographed yet.
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First British edition, London: Deutsch, 1977, 345 pages, 21 cm, ISBN 0 233 96884 9. The novel first appeared in Toronto from McClelland and Stewart in 1976, with a New York edition from Simon and Schuster dated 1976; the Deutsch record itself notes the Toronto original. Confirm the Deutsch imprint and the 1977 date on the title page. The Virago Modern Classics paperback (1982, also 345 pages) states that the book was first published in Great Britain by André Deutsch in 1977, so the Deutsch issue is the British first; as the page count is shared, use the imprint rather than the extent to tell editions apart.
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Deutsch, London, in 1977, in hardback.
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