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first uk edition dedication, not known if it's included in any us ones
'''Wizard of the Pigeons''' is a story set in the modern day Seattle, originally published in 1986. It won the Imaginales prize for best fantasy novel of the year in 2004 after it had been translated to French.<ref>http://www.imaginales.fr/pages/prix-imaginales Prix imaginales</ref>
==Dedication==
<poem style="border: 1px solid #999999; background-color: #cccccc; padding: 1em; font-style: italic; text-align: center; width: 25%;">
To Mike and the lady in the big straw hat,
from all the girls at Elsie's House of Joy, but
especially from Esmeralda Squarmish.
</poem>
The above dedication is in the 1987 UK Corgi edition bot not in the subsequent Voyager editions.
==Editions==
* An excerpt only in ''The Fantasy Sampler'', an unpaginated galley edited by Susan Allison from Berkley/Ace in October 1985, free to members of the 1985 World Fantasy Convention. Content from [[Steven Brust]], [[Megan Lindholm]], Ru Emerson, [[Gregory Frost]], Craig Shaw Gardner, Clive Barker with excerpts from ''Brokedown Palace'', ''Wizard of the Pigeons'', ''The Princess of Flames'', ''Tain'', ''A Malady of Magicks'', ''Clive Barker's Books of Blood Volume One''.
* A US papercback paperback edition in January 1986 from Ace with ISBN 9780441894673. Cover art by [[Robert Gould]]. There was a reprint in May of the same year.
* A UK paperback edition in 1987 by Corgi with ISBN 9780552130141.