Harvill, 1993 cover
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The first edition is the Harvill hardback (a HarperCollins imprint), London, 1992, ISBN 0-00-272660-2, of xxii, 225 pages with a map. Booksellers describe red cloth or boards lettered in gilt on the spine, in a pictorial dust jacket. Wikipedia gives 1993, but a UK library record of the 1993 Charnwood large print edition states it was first published by Harvill in 1992, and Open Library dates the hardback to June 1992. The Harvill trade paperback (ISBN 0-00-272687-4) followed in 1993 and the Charnwood large print edition (Leicester, 1993) is a later reprint.
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Harvill Press, London, in 1992, in hardback.
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