A Wizard of Earthsea

Notes

Per Currey, this is the (A) printing. It can be distinguished from the later (B) printing by a faint vertical line or smudge from the top to the base of the title page, generally running through the r or d of "wizard" to the p or s of "press". This is the library binding (no priority over the trade binding): illustration on front cover and lettering on spine and rear cover are stamped (embossed); rear cover embossed with rectangular box enclosing a note on the binding headed PARNASSUS [publisher's logo] LIBRARY EDITION: inner hinges reinforced with a visible strip of white linen tape pasted under the endpapers. The same dust jacket was used for both trade and library bindings, with "$3.95 llup" in upper right corner of front flap and "Library Edition $3.90" in lower right corner. Generally the trade price is clipped from the jackets on the library binding and the library price is clipped from those on the trade binding. Month is from the copyright page of the first printing of the August 1975 Bantam edition.