Magician

US Doubleday first of October 1982 is the true first, single volume — the census claim is correct on publisher, city and year but WRONG on the UK edition. The 1983 Granada (London) first UK edition did NOT split the text: it was issued as a single volume in both hardcover and paperback, and is cataloged by ABA/ILAB dealers as the first British edition, scarcer than the American. The split into Magician: Apprentice and Magician: Master was made by Bantam Spectra for the US paperback market in 1986, not by Granada. The 1992 tenth-anniversary "Author's Preferred Edition" restores roughly 15,000 words cut from the 1982 text and is a revised text — a "first thus," not a first edition — so the 1982 Doubleday remains the only first-state text.