Copyright
A Gollancz eBook
Copyright © Joe Abercrombie 2011
Axe illustration © Didier Graffet/Bragelonne 2010
Map © Dave Senior 2010
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The right of Joe Abercrombie to be identified as the author of this work has been asserted by him in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.
First published in Great Britain in 2011
by Gollancz
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This eBook first published in 2010 by Gollancz.
A CIP catalogue record for this book
is available from the British Library.
ISBN 978 0 575 08875 7
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