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The Black Prism, book one of the Lightbringer series, was published by Orbit in August 2010 in both New York and London. The British hardback is ISBN 184149903X (9781841499031), 629 pages, catalogued by the British Library as London: Orbit, 2010. ISFDB also lists a British trade paperback (ISBN 9781841499055) the same month, so the hardback is the form to look for. Distinguish it from the American Orbit hardback (ISBN 9780316075558, priced in dollars) and the American book club edition by the ISBN and the London imprint.
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Orbit, London, in 2010, in hardback.
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