# First Publication *The Urth list — 1 messages, 1 voices, 14 Jul 2003* > Exported from an unofficial mirror of a public mailing list. Copyright > in each message remains with the person who wrote it. > Email addresses are obscured as `user at host`, the form the original > archive published. This file was rebuilt from parsed fields rather than > retained headers, so it is faithful in content but not byte-exact. --- ### matthew.malthouse *14 Jul 2003, 07:19* > On 13/07/2003 22:41:57 James Jordan wrote: > BUT, Trollope wrote for serialized publication. The first part > of > a given book or series was in magazine print before the later parts were > even written, as I understand it. Wolfe worked over the New Sun books > FOUR > times before initial publication. Eh? Was the MS complete before initial publictaion? If so what caused the delays in first the UK edition? A friend recommended me TBotNS before the third volume was published. When it was I bought the three books [Arrow, 1st UK pbk] believing that it was a trilogy. I was very upset to find that there was a fouth and I had to wait for it. The ISFDB gives 1980, '81, 81 and 82 as first publication dates which I would assume to be US: can't get to my copies to check as I'm at work. Matthew ---