Publication History
- Blakeney, Gloucestershire: Scorpion Press, 1996. Signed, limited edition.
- London: Century Books, October 1996. First trade edition.
- New York: Alfred A. Knopf, November 1996. First American edition.
- For this edition, Ellroy signed (or rather initialed) 50,000 blank pages that were bound into each copy of the first printing.
- London: Arrow, June 1997. First British trade paperback.
- New York: Vintage, August 1997. First American trade paperback.
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