Dragonflight

The 1978 Del Rey hardcover with Michael Whelan's cover art is the copy most often mistaken for a first — it is a later edition by any definition, a decade after publication, and is not a first in any sense. The Corgi (London, 1970) paperback and all later Ballantine/Del Rey printings are reprints. Later Ballantine paperback printings retain the U6124-era text but add printing notices to the copyright page. No book-club issue of the Walker 1969 or Rapp & Whiting hardcovers is documented in the sources consulted.