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M Is for Magic first appeared in the United States as a HarperCollins hardback on 26 June 2007. The first British edition is the Bloomsbury Children's Books paperback published on 3 March 2008, ISBN 978 0 7475 9568 7, 249 pages, about 191 by 121 mm, with cover art and illustrations by Teddy Kristiansen. The Neil Gaiman Visual Bibliography lists this paperback as the only British edition of the book, so there is no British hardback to look for. The Subterranean Press edition illustrated by Gahan Wilson is American. The stories were later reissued by Bloomsbury as Coraline and Other Stories, which is a different book.
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Check these points. Dust jacket, front flap: Printed price on the front flap: £6.99. Each point is confirmed by at least two independent sources.
Bloomsbury, London, in 2008, in paperback.
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