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Lord Tyger a hardcover. This edition featured cover art by Seymour Chwast. It was reprinted as a paperback by Signet with cover art by Bob Pepper, in 1972. It was first released in the United Kingdom as a Panther paperback in 1974, featuring cover art by Richard Clifton-Dey. Another Signet edition, this time in 1981, was a "Signet Double Science Fiction" paired with Farmer's earlier novel "Flesh". The Richard Clifton-Dey artwork was re-used for the latest edition, a 1985 Granada paperback. The French language edition was entitled "Le Tigre Africain", roughly "The African Tiger". Lord Tyger Lord Tyger is an American novel