Copyright page statement: "This edition first published by Unwin Paperbacks, an imprint of Unwin Hyman Ltd, in 1988". No number line on page.
Month of publication from Locus1.
Cover art credit on rear cover.
Disjointed page count runs as follows: six unnumbered pages, followed by Roman numeral pages vii - xii, then four unnumbered pages, then the Arabic numeral pages 9 - 276, page 9 being the first page of text of the novel - in other words, counting back, Arabic page 1 is on page ix.