» The Model
Robert Aickman

A bizarre but delightful fantasy novella of a young girl in pre-revolutionary Tsarist Russia who is to be sold off into marital slavery to pay the family debts.

The Model
New York: Arbor House 1987
Published April 1987
Original price $14.95
ISBN 0-87795-878-5
8vo—quarter green cloth, red boards—pp138
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First edition

No epigraph or dedication (published posthumously)

Front cover Artwork by Jill Karla Schwarz

Back cover

The Model
Uncorrected advance proof
New York: Arbor House Publishing Co 1987
Original price n/a
No ISBN
Paperback—pale blue card wrappers—pp138
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No epigraph or dedication. Frontis of the proof does not mention The River Runs Uphill (whilst the published version does).

Front cover

The Model
London: Robinson Publishing 1988
Published 13 October 1988
Original price £8.95 (cloth); £2.95 (paperback)
ISBN 0 948164 64 6 (cloth); 0 948164 69 7 (paperback)
8vo/paperback—black cloth—pp138
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First UK edition

No epigraph or dedication (published posthumously)

Front cover Artwork by Ian Miller

Back cover (of paperback)

Das Modell
Stuttgart: Hobbit Presse/Klett-Cotta 1989
Original price DM28.00
ISBN 3-608-95588-7
8vo—pictorial hardcover with dustjacket—pp143
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German edition, translated from the English by Joachim Kalka, with 15 pages of illustrations at the start of the book by Susanne Ohl.

No epigraph or dedication (published posthumously)

Front cover Artwork by Susanne Ohl

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