Permutation City, cover of the Millennium, 1995 edition (the Millennium 1994 cover is not yet photographed)Millennium, 1995 cover

Cover of the Millennium, 1995 edition of this book. The Millennium 1994 jacket has not been photographed yet.

First edition Hardback

Permutation City (1994)

Publisher Millennium Year 1994 ISBN 9781857981742

Identification points are listed only where two independent sources agree. Last reviewed 28 Oct 2026.

Market value

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  • It is the first edition, which is the one collectors want.
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In short

Quick answer

Who published the Permutation City first edition?
Millennium, London, in 1994, in hardback.
Identification

How to identify this edition

This is the true first edition: Millennium (an Orion imprint) published the book in London in 1994, before any American edition (HarperPrism paperback, 1995). It came out as a hardback (ISBN 1-85798-174-X) and a trade paperback (ISBN 1-85798-175-8), both 310 pages; the hardback is about 25 cm tall in a dust jacket with a cover illustration by Chris Moore. Later Millennium and Orion paperbacks (1995, 1998, 2008) are not firsts. The first American hardback is a Science Fiction Book Club issue of 1995 that has HarperPrism on the spine and the club number only on the back of the jacket.

Printing by printing

Printings and states

First impression

1994

At a glance

Not yet researched

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Notes

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Questions collectors ask

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Who published the Permutation City first edition?

Millennium, London, in 1994, in hardback.

Sources

Where these facts come from

Points of issue are listed only where at least two independent sources agree. Last reviewed 28 October 2026. Reviewed by Harriet Ellis; read how we check facts.