The Beginning Place

Notes

Originally serialized in Redbook, 1979.

• Stated first edition.
• First printing. full numberline "80 81 82 83 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1".
• Month of publication from the code 0280 on the front flap. Date of publication from Harper & Row's VP and editor-in-chief M. S. Wyeth's letter to John Fowles with a complimentary copy (inserted in one of the verification copies), dated 1980-01-25 and stating explicitly that the book was to be published on 1980-02-06. (This publication date was also given in the letter to Fowles inserted in the ARC.)
• There are 8 unnumbered pages before page 1. Quotation by J.L. Borges on page [6]: "Qué río es ésta / por el cual corre el Ganges?"
• Jacket design by Griesbach Martucci on rear jacket flap; no visible signature on the artwork.
• Author's photo on back cover by Lisa Kroeber, credited on the rear jacket flap.
• ISBN on back jacket.