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The British edition carries a Doubleday, London imprint dated 1994 and ISBN 0385406312; library records give 336 numbered pages (collation [12], xiv, 336) with an index. The first edition anywhere is the American Random House issue of the same year (ISBN 0679430946), so a Random House, New York imprint is not the British first, and the Anchor paperbacks are later. Check the title page and copyright page for Doubleday, London and the ISBN above.
Doubleday's British list is an imprint of Transworld Publishers in London, and its books are identified the British way: a first impression is shown by a complete number line on the copyright page.
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Doubleday, London, in 1994, in hardback.
Points of issue are listed only where at least two independent sources agree. Last reviewed 27 October 2026. Reviewed by Harriet Ellis; read how we check facts.
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