The Dreamthief’s Daughter
London: Earthlight hardcover and simultaneous trade-sized paperback, 2001 (February 19th);
sub-titled “A Tale Of The Albino” on front cover only;
original prices: £16·99 (h/c), £10·00 (p/b);
x + 342 pages;
I.S.B.N.s: 0-684-86131-3 (h/c) & 0-7432-0706-8 (p/b);
cover artist: Jim Burns.
Elric of Melniboné — proud prince of ruins, kinslayer — call him what you will. He remains, together with maybe Jerry Cornelius, Moorcock’s most enduring, if not always most endearing, character…
The Dreamthief’s Daughter is the first volume in a supplementary trilogy to the main Elric Saga — in fact the only preconceived Elric trilogy — linking the albino with various von Beks. It was collected in The Elric Saga Part IV (2005), then it was retitled & revised as Daughter Of Dreams (2013) and in this form was collected in Elric: The Moonbeam Roads (2014), before being re-collected (with revised texts but original titles) in The Elric Saga Volume Three: The White Wolf.
(+ book-club ed.)
First American edition: Woodstock, IL: American Fantasy, 2001 (March) hardcover;
a limited edition “of 600 signed, numbered copies”, in a plain black slip-case;
issued with loose-leaf print of frontispiece illustration (see below);
sub-titled “A Tale Of The Albino” on title & signature pages (also dust-wrapper front flap);
original price: $125·00;
304 pages;
I.S.B.N.: 0-9610352-2-6;
cover artist: Robert Gould;
interior artists: Randy Broecker, Robert T. Garcia (Book One), Donato Giancola, Gary Gianni, Gould, Michael Kaluta, Todd Lockwood, Don Maitz (frontispiece) and Michael Whelan (illustrations page);
signed by: Moorcock, Broecker, Giancola, Gianni, Gould, Kaluta, Lockwood, Maitz and Whelan.
New York: Warner/Aspect hardcover, 2001 (April);
sub-titled “A Tale Of The Albino”;
original price: $24·95;
vi + 343 pages;
I.S.B.N.: 0-446-52618-5;
cover artist: Robert Gould.
Warner/Aspect mass-sized paperback, 2002 (June);
original price: $6·99
viii + 460 pages;
I.S.B.N.: 0-446-61120-4.
American Fantasy, 2003 hardcover;
dated “March 2001” on copyright page;
a limited edition “of 26 signed, lettered copies”, in an embossed black tray-case;
original price: $500·00;
304 pages;
I.S.B.N.: 0-9610352-3-4 (cited on copyright page of numbered edition, but not published simultaneously);
no dust-wrapper: “Front Type Stamping Design by Robert Gould
Front Stamping Art by Randy Broecker”;
interior artists & signatures all as per numbered edition (see above).
Lakewood, CO: Centipede Press, 2023: details T.B.C.
Earthlight mass-sized paperback, 2002 (February 4th);
original price: £6·99
x + 342 pages;
I.S.B.N.: 0-671-03725-0;
cover artist: Jim Burns.
(Followed by The Skrayling Tree)
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