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Publication: The Big Time

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  • Publication: The Big TimePublication Record # 244901
  • Author: Fritz Leiber
  • Date: 1988-00-00
  • Publisher: The Easton Press
  • Pub. Series: The Masterpieces of Science Fiction
  • Pages: [14]+171+[3]
  • Format:
    hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
  • Type: NOVEL
  • Cover: The Big Time by Charles Lang
  • Notes:
    • "COLLECTOR'S EDITION" (over) "Bound in Genuine Leather" stated on the title page.
    • "The special contents of this edition are copyright © 1989 by The Easton Press..." stated on the copyright page. No stated date of publication.
    • This is a limited edition of an unknown number of copies and was available by subscription only.
    • One of The Masterpieces of Science Fiction series, indicated by the logo printed on the endpapers.
    • No ISBN, no printed price, and no dustjacket as issued.
    • The uncredited illustrative cover design is repeated on the back. It is based on a detail in the frontispiece by Charles Lang.
    • Pages are gilt-edged and there is a lemon yellow satin ribbon bookmark bound into the book.
    • The frontispiece, credited on the title page and the copyright page, is on the page facing the title page.
    • Two of the three interior pieces are signed by Charles Lang and Wendy Snow-Lang, though she is given no other credit. They appear on unnumbered pages.
    • The nine-page introduction appears on unnumbered pages, so the pages before the first numbered page have been added to this record in order to place it.
    • "Collector's Notes" (uncredited) are on a double-sided laid-in sheet.
    • This edition is a facsimile reprint of the 1972 Ace pb edition.
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Biomassbob 2012-05-23 10:09:09 Permanent 2022-09-04
Bluesman 2016-01-01 20:10:56 Permanent 2018-12-28
Mhhutchins 2021-08-30 16:14:41 Permanent 2022-08-24

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Bleiler78 N/A Bluesman 2016-01-01 20:10:56
Clute/Grant N/A Bluesman 2016-01-01 20:10:56
Clute/Nicholls N/A Bluesman 2016-01-01 20:10:56
Contento1 (anth/coll) N/A Bluesman 2016-01-01 20:10:56
Currey N/A Bluesman 2016-01-01 20:10:56
Locus1 N/A Bluesman 2016-01-01 20:10:56
Miller/Contento N/A Bluesman 2016-01-01 20:10:56
OCLC/Worldcat Verified Bluesman 2016-01-01 20:10:56
Reginald1 N/A Bluesman 2016-01-01 20:10:56
Reginald3 N/A Bluesman 2016-01-01 20:10:56
Tuck N/A Bluesman 2016-01-01 20:10:56
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