The Flood

The hardback is the scarcer and collector-preferred issue and is described by dealers as elusive; the wrappered issue is explicitly catalogued as "first paperback edition, first impression, issued simultaneously with the hardback." There is no number line and no printing statement to check on this title — identification rests entirely on the Polygon / Edinburgh / 1986 imprint plus the correct issue state and, for the hardback, the Kirkwood jacket