Dark Gods

The census claim is confirmed: Viking, New York, 1985 (published July 1985) is the true first, and it precedes all British issues. The first US paperback was Bantam, July 1986, and the first British edition was a Pan Books paperback dated 1986–87 in the sources consulted — no UK hardcover first is documented, so the Viking hardcover is the only first hardcover state. Later small-press issues, including the Chiroptera Press edition, are "first thus."