Publication:THFRSTLSTN2012
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This page is the wiki-page for the publication The First Last Unicorn and Other Beginnings. This page may be used for bibliographic comments or extended notes about the publication, or discussion on how the publication is to be recorded. The link above leads to the ISFDB publication record for THFRSTLSTN2012. To discuss what should go on this page, use the talk page.
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This collection was announced in 2005 and as of 2015 has not been released under the title The First Last Unicorn. However, the publisher released Sleight of Hand in 2011 which has the same contents though without the Stephanie Pui-Mun Law cover and interior artwork.
A search of the author and artist blogs finds these posts that mention the collection:
- Posted on September 26, 2009 by Stephanie Law "I heard from a little bird that The First Last Unicorn book by Peter S. Beagle might actually see the light of day, nearly 5 years after I did that painting (and the series of pencil drawings I did for the interior as well). I had thought that the publisher decided to scrap the project completely when a long period of silence ensued completion of the art, but they contacted me last week to let me know that it would possibly be released early next year. I might be adding a few more pencil drawings for the additional stories that had been appended to the collection in the intervening years."
- Posted on November 30, 2010 by Stephanie Law “The Seduction” – Unicorn rough sketches (this drawing may be unrelated to the The First Last Unicorn project).
- Posted on November 30, 2010 by Stephanie Law Unicorn final sketch (this drawing may be unrelated to the The First Last Unicorn project).
- Posted on January 13, 2011 by Stephanie Law First Last Unicorn sketches. "Well, many years ago (I think 2004ish), I did this painting, as well as a number of pencil drawings that were intended for a book by Peter S. Beagle, author of The Last Unicorn. It was going to be called The First Last Unicorn, because..." and "Unfortunately, the project never was published and I didn’t hear any news for a long time. In recent months there has been mutterings of reviving it, and while there is still no set release for those original paintings and drawings I did, ..."
- Posted on January 14, 2011 by Stephanie Law First Last Unicorn sketch.
- Posted on January 17, 2011 by Stephanie Law "Cover piece for The First Last Unicorn, by Peter S. Beagle, that Tachyon Publications will be releasing soon (for real this time)."
- January 2011 Cover for The First Last Unicorn, by Peter S. Beagle, to be released by Tachyon Publications in 2011. "The first version I did several years ago -here- will still be used for another edition of the book that is being planned with interior pencil drawings as well. "
- April 23, 2015 The Publisher's page for The First Last Unicorn and Other Beginnings that reports:
- Published: 2014
- ISBN: 9781616960513 (this is the same ISBN that we have on ISFDB)
- Publisher: Tachyon Publications
- Price: $15.95
- Pages: not stated
- Binding: Trade Paperback
- Type: Collection
- Cover: uncredited
- Contents:
- The Woman Who Married the Man in the Moon (a Schmendrick story)
- Sleight of Hand
- The Children of the Shark God
- The Best Worst Monster
- What Tune the Enchantress Plays
- La Lune T’Attend
- Up the Down Beanstalk: A Wife Remembers
- The Rock in the Park
- The Rabbi’s Hobby
- Oakland Dragon Blues
- The Bridge Partner
- Dirae
- Vanishing
- April 23, 2015 A check of the planned content for The First Last Unicorn finds that all of the stories were published in Sleight of Hand in 2011 though without the Stephanie Pui-Mun Law cover and interior artwork.