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The Simulacra first appeared in the United States as an Ace paperback original in 1964, with a cover by Ed Emshwiller. It was not published in Britain until 1977, when Eyre Methuen of London issued a hardback of 220 pages, ISBN 0 413 37750 4; the British National Bibliography records it as originally published by Ace in 1964, and the 2004 Gollancz reissue cites Ace 1964 and Eyre Methuen 1977 as the earlier editions. Check for the Eyre Methuen name and the 0 413 ISBN.
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Methuen, UK, in 1977, in hardback.
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