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[[category:Publisher Imprints]][[category:Mills and Boon Imprints]]
 
[[category:Publisher Imprints]][[category:Mills and Boon Imprints]]
The publication of the [[Silhouette Desire]] titles in the United Kingdom began in January 1983 by [[Hodder and Stoughton|Hodder & Stoughton]], six month after the start of the North American Edition. At that time [[Silhouette]] still was a  division of [[Simon and Schuster|Simon & Schuster]]. The UK titles had the same covers and numbering as the US Edition but their publisher's ISBN: [http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0340349670/ref=nosim/103-3685024-2000659?n=283155 UK-Edition] and [http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/067147149X/ref=nosim/103-3685024-2000659?n=283155 US-Edition]
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The publication of the [[Silhouette Desire]] titles in the United Kingdom started in January 1983 by [[Hodder and Stoughton|Hodder & Stoughton]], six month after the start of the North American Edition. At that time [[Silhouette]] still was a  division of [[Simon and Schuster|Simon & Schuster]]. The UK titles had the same covers and numbering as the US Edition but their publisher's ISBN: [http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0340349670/ref=nosim/103-3685024-2000659?n=283155 UK-Edition] and [http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/067147149X/ref=nosim/103-3685024-2000659?n=283155 US-Edition]
  
 
[[Image:Palmer Night of Love.jpg|thumb|left|100px|US-Edition ISBN 0-373-05799-7]]
 
[[Image:Palmer Night of Love.jpg|thumb|left|100px|US-Edition ISBN 0-373-05799-7]]

Revision as of 11:34, 14 June 2008

The publication of the Silhouette Desire titles in the United Kingdom started in January 1983 by Hodder & Stoughton, six month after the start of the North American Edition. At that time Silhouette still was a division of Simon & Schuster. The UK titles had the same covers and numbering as the US Edition but their publisher's ISBN: UK-Edition and US-Edition

US-Edition ISBN 0-373-05799-7
UK-Edition ISBN 0-373-59092-X

Harlequin Enterprises bought Silhouette in 1984 and from January 1985 on the UK-Edition was published by Harlequin's UK-based branch Mills & Boon. The UK titles still had the same covers and numbering as the US Edition but a ISBN in the Harlequin range (0-373-), whereas the US-edition still had one in Simon & Schuster's: UK-Edition and US-Edition

From July 1985 to June 1986 the UK-titles were almost identical to the North American Edition except that there where published 6 months later. From July 1986 to April 1995 the UK-titles again had a different ISBN in the Harlequin range, but kept the USA covers and series numbering.

US-Edition ISBN 0-373-08532-X 1987
UK-Edition ISBN 0-373-08532-X 1995

This changed in May 1995, when with #896 Mills & Boon discontinued to issue the American Edition on a 1:1 basis. Titles from the Silhouette Romance, Silhouette Yours Truly and Harlequin Love And Laughter imprint were included and the series now had a special Mills & Boon numbering but kept the ISBN, which makes it rather difficult to distinguish the UK-Edition.

The last single-title edition of the imprint was released in October 2001, with #1362. From that time 3 double-title volumes are published each month, at first called Desire Double and themed and currently named Desire 2 in 1.


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double-title covers