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» The Wine-Dark Sea: A Collection
Robert Aickman

The Wine-Dark Sea: A Collection
New York: Arbor House/William Morrow 1988
Published 24 October 1988
Original price $18.95
ISBN 1-55710-035-7
8vo—quarter burgundy cloth, cream boards—pp388

Also published in an identical paperback version by Arbor House/William Morrow.

» Contents

Introduction by Peter Straub
The Wine-Dark Sea
The Trains
Your Tiny Hand Is Frozen
Growing Boys
The Fetch
The Inner Room
Never Visit Venice
The Next Glade
Into the Wood
Bind Your Hair
The Stains

No epigraph or dedication (published posthumously)

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Artwork by Linda Burr
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The Wine-Dark Sea: A Collection
Uncorrected bound galleys
New York: Arbor House/William Morrow 1988
Original price n/a
No ISBN
Paperback—printed red card wrappers—pp388

» Contents

Introduction by Peter Straub
The Wine-Dark Sea
The Trains
Your Tiny Hand Is Frozen
Growing Boys
The Fetch
The Inner Room
Never Visit Venice
The Next Glade
Into the Wood
Bind Your Hair
The Stains

No epigraph or dedication (published posthumously)

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The Wine-Dark Sea
London: Mandarin Paperbacks 1990
Published 8 March 1990
Original price £3.99
ISBN 0-7493-0172-4
Paperback—pp352

» Contents

Introduction by Peter Straub
The Wine-Dark Sea
The Trains
Your Tiny Hand Is Frozen
Growing Boys
The Fetch
The Inner Room
Never Visit Venice
Into the Wood

No epigraph or dedication (published posthumously). The UK edition contains fewer stories than the earlier US edition; the remaining stories collected in the Arbor House The Wine-Dark Sea appear, alongside five other tales from earlier collections. in The Unsettled Dust also published by Mandarin in 1990.

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