A Brief History of Time: From the Big Bang to Black Holes

• A Bantam Book / April 1988 • First printing by number line FG 0 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 • "Front cover photo of author © 1988 by David Montgomery" on rear flap • Interior illustrations copyright © 1988 by Ron Miller on copyright page; all are diagrams • $24.95 in Canada • The blue/silver dustjacket here only appears on the first state of the book. • Bantam recalled the true first printing due to an error (switched captions on pages 73 and 95). • It later re-issued the book with the dark blue dustjacket seen on the book club editions and later printings but retained the full number line on the copyright page.