Corum: The Prince In The Scarlet Robe
London: Gollancz, 2002 (June 13th) trade-sized paperback;
Fantasy Masterworks series No. 30;
original price: £6·99;
iv + 486 pages;
I.S.B.N.: 0-575-07366-7;
cover artist: Richard Carr;
no American edition (by this title).
The last (or latest?) in a long line of retitled omnibuses of the first of two separate trilogies featuring Corum Jhaelen Irsei, collecting The Knight Of The Swords, The Queen Of The Swords and The King Of The Swords (all 1971). Starting life as The Swords Trilogy (1977), it was first retitled as The Swords Of Corum (1986) then as Corum (1992), followed (with minor textual amendments / revisions) by Corum: The Coming Of Chaos (1996/’97). Its first appearance as Corum: The Prince In The Scarlet Robe reproduced the text of the first edition of Corum: The Coming Of Chaos, before being further revised in 2013.
It should be noted that the name Corum Jhaelen Irsei is an anagram of Jeremiah Cornelius.
London: Gollancz trade-paperback, 2013 (March 28th);
part of the Michael Moorcock Collection;
edited by John Davey;
original price: £9·99;
xx + 470 pages;
includes ‘Introduction To The Michael Moorcock Collection’ by John Clute (pp. vii–xii);
also includes ‘Introduction To The Michael Moorcock Collection’ by Moorcock (pp. xiii–xviii);
I.S.B.N.: 978-0-575-10841-7;
cover artist: Robert Gould.
Copyright page states “Revised version”, but should be more accurately ‘Version contains minor textual amendments’.
Contents (first edition):-
p. iii: untitled introduction (non-fiction) by Michael Moorcock;
p. 1: The Knight Of The Swords (as The First Book Of Corum: The Knight Of The Swords on title page);
p. 179: The Queen Of The Swords (as The Second Book Of Corum: The Queen Of The Swords on title page);
p. 329: The King Of The Swords (as The Third Book Of Corum: The King Of The Swords on title page).
Contents (revised edition):-
p. vii: ‘Introduction To The Michael Moorcock Collection’ (non-fiction) by John Clute;
p. xiii: ‘Introduction To The Michael Moorcock Collection’ (non-fiction) by Moorcock;
p. xix: Contents page;
p. 1: The Knight Of The Swords (as The First Book Of Corum: The Knight Of The Swords on title page);
p. 177: The Queen Of The Swords (as The Second Book Of Corum: The Queen Of The Swords on title page);
p. 321: The King Of The Swords (as The Third Book Of Corum: The King Of The Swords on title page).
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