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Random House published the first edition in New York in 1994. The first British edition is the Headline hardback of 1995 (ISBN 0 7472 1553 7), which library records describe as ix, 429 pages, illustrated, 24 cm. Headline issued a different edition in 1996 under ISBN 0 7472 7772 9, catalogued at 448 pages with chiefly colour illustrations, so check both the ISBN and the date; a dealer description of a 448 page copy points to the 1996 book rather than the first. No source consulted gives the jacket price, a print run or any issue points for the 1995 Headline.
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Headline Publishing Group, London, in 1995, in hardback.
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