Harper Paperbacks, 1996 cover
Cover of the Harper Paperbacks, 1996 edition of this book. The HarperCollins 1993 jacket has not been photographed yet.
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The first edition is American: William Morrow, New York, 1992 (ISBN 0 688 10732 X, 479 pages), with a Charnel House edition the same year that includes an extra poem. The ISFDB publication list shows no British hardback; the first UK edition is the HarperCollins paperback of December 1993, published in London, ISBN 0 586 21452 6. Gollancz reissued it as a Fantasy Masterworks paperback in 2013 (ISBN 978 0 575 11681 8), a later edition. No print run or issue points are recorded in the sources checked.
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HarperCollins, London, in 1993, in hardback.
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