On Wings of Song/Editions

Details and images in this list are mainly derived from ISFDB, which has fuller information.

US

Serialized in three parts in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction: February, March, and April 1979. Cover art: Ed Emshwiller.

St. Martin's Press, 1979. Hardcover. Cover art: Michael Mariano. ISBN 0312584660

Bantam Books, 1980. Paperback. Cover art: Lou Feck. ISBN 0553136674

Bantam Books, 1985. Paperback. Cover art: Kid Kane. ISBN 0553250760

Carroll & Graf, 1988. Trade paperback. Cover art: same as 1985, alas. ISBN 0881844438

Easton Press, 1993. Limited edition hardcover. Illustrations by Pat Morrissey, introduction by James K. Morrow. No ISBN.

Carroll & Graf, 2003. Trade paperback. ISBN 0786711221

UK

Gollancz, 1979. Hardcover. Cover art: Malcolm Ashman. ISBN 0575025476

Magnum, 1981. Paperback. Cover art: Chris Moore. ISBN 0417055803

Translations

French (translated by Jean Bonnefoy): Sur les ailes du chant. Denoël, 1980. Paperback. Cover art: Stéphane Dumont.

German (translated by Irene Holicki): Auf Flügeln des Gesangs. Hohenheim, 1982. Hardcover. Cover art: Oliviero Berni. ISBN 3-8147-0025-2

German (translated by Irene Holicki): Auf Flügeln des Gesangs. Heyne, 1986. Paperback. Cover art: Ulf Herholz. ISBN 3-453-31218-X

Italian (translated by Paola Tomaselli): Le ali della mente. Mondadori, 1996. Trade paperback. Cover art: Oscar Chicone.

French (translated by Jean Bonnefoy): Sur les ailes du chant. Denoël, 2001. Paperback. Cover art: Barrett Foster. ISBN 2-07-041798-0

Spanish (translated by Luis G. Prado): En alas de la canción. Bibliópolis, 2003. Trade paperback. Cover art: Roberto Uriel & Manuel de los Galanes. ISBN 84-932836-5-7

Polish (translated by Michał Raginiak): Na skrzydłach pieśni. Solaris, 2007. Hardcover. ISBN 8389951843

E-book

Chu Hartley Publishers, 2016. No cover art.

Textual differences

The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction serialization is slightly shorter than the full novel. Most of the cuts are incidental flourishes without much effect on the story or the ideas, but one bit stands out in its absence: the paragraph in chapter 3 where Daniel, at the movie theater in Minneapolis, notices two men sharing a bathroom stall and is both shocked and intrigued.

The epigram doesn't appear in the serialization, nor in the first British hardcover from Gollancz.