My identification of the various volumes has taken a slightly different route from traditional descriptive bibliography. Figures 7a and 7b show the ten initial pages of the Canadian trade edition, up to and including the first page of the first chapter. After the first blank page, the title of the book appears, followed by a repetition of the title accompanied by the author name and house imprint. The copyright page follows, with the acknowledgements squeezed in at the bottom of this page, followed by the dedication, then the epigraph. The epigraph is followed, on page 8, by one lone fleuron placed in the upper third of the page.
Chapter one begins on the tenth page, which is actually numbered page nine.
Figures 8a and 8b show the fourteen initial pages of the us edition. On this copyright page are also shown notes about the manufacture and design of the book, with the designer's name. Chapter one begins on page fourteen. Figures 9a and 9b show the fourteen initial pages of the UK edition. The second page contains excerpts of reviews from mostly American sources.