Notes
Stated 1st printing of this 2019 edition, by number line.
Title page:
- "The Best of [over] R. A. Lafferty [over] Edited by Jonathan Strahan"
- Gollancz colophon.
Copyright pages:
- "First published in Great Britain in 2019 by Gollancz [over] an imprint of the Orion Publishing Group Ltd [over] Carmelite House, 50 Victoria Embankment [over] London EC4Y 0DZ"
- "An Hachette UK Company"
- Number line: "1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2"
- "All introductions are copyright to their respective [over] authors © 2018 and are used with permission."
- The rest of the page, and the two following pages comprise publishing and copyright statements for all the stories, then continuing on the next page:
- "ISBN (mass market paperback) 978 1 473 21344 9"
- "ISBN (eBook) 978 1 473 21345 6"
- "Printed and bound by Clays Ltd, [over] Elcograf S.p.A."
Back cover:
- "UK £9.99" (no additional pricing)
- "Illustration by Emanuel Santos"
- "ISBN 978-1-473- 21344-9". No EAN.
Spine:
- "SF Masterworks", "The Best of R. A. Lafferty" in black; "R. A. Lafferty" in red, all on graduated yellow-to-white ground.
Full date of publication from Amazon UK as of 2019-02-25, and confirmed on the publisher's website, hachette.co.uk, as of 2023-10-09.
ToC on unnumbered pages vii, viii.
Introduction by Neil Gaiman, credited under the title on page ix, and unsigned on page xiv.
On page 137, at the end of Ellison's "Introduction (Land of the Great Horses)": "Note: The introduction above is reproduced from its original appearance in
Dangerous Visions and is © 1967 The Kilimanjaro Corporation with the kind permission of the author.".
Last story finishes on the last numbered page, 446.
Semi-gloss cover.
