The Owl Service

UK Collins (London), 1967 is the true first and precedes all others; it won both the Carnegie Medal and the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize. The first American edition is Henry Z. Walck, Inc., New York, 1968, which states 'First American edition 1968' on the copyright page; it is bound in black cloth with a silver-stamped circular vignette to the front board and silver-lettered spine, in a jacket designed by Janet Halverson. Both the Collins and the Walck are collected, but the Walck is a separate later edition, not the true first.