H2
Tom Stoppard – Lord Malquist & Mr Moon
H2 a. UK Edition
1. First Edition
Anthony Blond. Published 1966. Hardback. White endpapers. Half title, title, [i], 185 pages numbered 8-192. Pages 196mm x 127mm. Red cloth; down spine in gilt ‘TOM STOPPARD LORD MALQUIST & MR MOON (BLOND logo)’.
Dustjacket. 485mm x 203mm. Front: a cartoon of a man being driven in a carriage through a city street; above in black ‘LORD MALQUIST & | MR MOON’; below in black ‘TOM STOPPARD’. No ISBN. Price on front flap 25/-.
Note 1: Stoppard’s first and only novel.
2. First Paperback Edition
Panther. Published 1968. Paperback. [i], title, [i], 181 pages numbered 7-187, [ii]. Pages 178mm x 110mm. Front: a graphic of a half-naked woman and a judge with a woman’s face and a man’s face and hands poking through the cut-outs; at the top right in black ‘Tom Stoppard | Lord Malquist | and Mr | Moon’, and below the Panther logo with underneath in black ‘02526X’. Price on back cover United Kingdom 5/- Australia 80c New Zealand 65c South Africa 60c.
3. First Faber Edition
Faber and Faber. Published 1974. Hardback. White endpapers. Half title, title, [i], 185 pages numbered 8-192. Pages 196mm x 125mm. Pale grey cloth; down spine in gilt ‘Lord Malquist & Mr Moon TOM STOPPARD FABER’.
Dustjacket. 461mm x 203mm. Front: cerulean with in light red ‘a novel by’, in white ‘TOM | STOPPARD’, and in light red ‘Lord | Malquist | & | Mr Moon’. ISBN 0-571-10419-3. Price on front flap £1.80
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H2 b. USA Edition
1. First Edition
Alfred A. Knopf. Published 15th April 1968. Hardback. White endpapers. Half title, title, [ii], 178 pages numbered 3-180, [i], 1 blank. Pages 210mm x 142mm with top edge sprayed red. Lightly marbled cerulean boards with a metallic blue cartoon of a horse-drawn carriage, quarter bound in khaki cloth; down spine in gilt ‘TOM STOPPARD Knopf Lord Malquist & Mr Moon’.
Dustjacket. 518mm x 215mm. Front: a pop art graphic by Emil Antonucci and above in blue ‘a novel by’, in red ‘TOM STOPPARD’, in ochre ‘the author of’, in blue ‘ROSENCRANTZ AND GUILDENSTERN ARE DEAD’, in ochre ‘L’, in red ‘O’, in ochre ‘RD MALQUIST | & MR M’, in red ‘OO’, in ochre ‘N’. No ISBN. Price on front flap $4.95.
2. First Paperback Edition
Ballantine. Published September 1969. Paperback. [i], title, [ii], 195 pages numbered 3-197. Pages 177mm x 102mm. Front: a multicoloured psychaedelic montage of images; at the top in black ‘(Ballantine logo) 01718.095 Ballantine Walden Edition 95¢ | A Novel By’, in shades of green and orange ‘TOM STOPPARD’, in black ‘Author of | ROSENCRANTZ and GUILDENSTERN are DEAD’, and in shades of red ‘LORD MALQUIST | & MR MOON’. ISBN 345-01718-095. Price on front cover 95¢.
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