The Flame Takers

Overview:

  • Title: The Flame Takers
  • Author: Lilith Norman
  • Year: 1974
  • ISBN-10: 0001850016
  • Publisher: Collins
  • Price: £1.95
  • Pages: 125
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • Type: Novel
  • Title Reference: The Flame Takers
  • Notes:
      Reprint, perhaps the first for international distribution
    • Data from British Library (BL, below) include: -- Reprint -- "Sydney, etc. : Collins, 1974"   [OCLC: "Collins, Sydney, 1974, ©1973"] -- Printed in Hong Kong Unknown whether the 1973 original is from "Sydney, etc." or is printed in Hong Kong.
    • Publication date and cover image and Amazon AU 2022-09-18 as Hardcover and "HarperCollins Distribution Services (1 April 1974)" --but "HarperCollins" cannot be named in a 1974 book. Amazon UK/US provide the same cover image (identical URL) as 1973.
    • Price from brief review in "John Rowe Townsend on fantasy fiction for children of all ages", The Guardian 1974-06-12 p11, as "(Collins, £1.95)". Late date of the review supports, but doesn't establish, that it's the 1974 reprint, and that the 1973 was not distributed in Britain.