The Cipher

No book-club edition documented. The census claim of 'no hardcover until the printed pricet-century reissues' is correct in direction but imprecise and is CORRECTED here: the Meerkat Press reissue of 15 September 2020 (ISBN 978-1-946154-33-0) was a PAPERBACK, adding a new afterword by Maryse Meijer, and is a first thus only. The first hardcover of any kind is the Centipede Press (Lakewood, CO) 2022 edition, ISBN 978-1-61347-295-8 — a limited, signed, numbered issue of 500 copies bound in black Brillianta cloth, 292 pages, with jacket, frontispiece and six interior illustrations by Martin Ander; it is a first hardcover edition, not a first edition. A 1996 Dell reprint of the paperback also exists.