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Publication: The Ringworld Engineers

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  • Publication: The Ringworld EngineersPublication Record # 257855
  • Author: Larry Niven
  • Date: 1979-12-00
  • ISBN: 0-932096-03-4 [978-0-932096-03-6]
  • Publisher: Phantasia Press
  • Price:
    $30.00?$: US dollar
  • Pages: viii+355
  • Format:
    hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
  • Type: NOVEL
  • Cover: The Ringworld Engineers by Paul Lehr
  • Notes:
    • On copyright page:
      • First Edition
      • This special collectors edition published by arrangement with Holt, Rinehart and Winston
    • No statement of printing; no numberline
    • Year on title page. Source of month unknown. Locus magazine #230 (February 1980) lists it in the "January Books" column but Locus1 refers to it as "Phantasia 1979"
    • "Cover Painting by Paul Lehr" on rear dust jacket flap. The wraparound cover artwork is signed "Lehr"
    • "Frontispiece by Paul Lehr" on title page. This single page of full colour artwork is printed on glossy paper and is signed "Lehr"
    • issued in a plain, dark green slipcase
    • issued with a loosely laid in foldout black and white map of part of the Ringworld which is signed "Duane (after Niven & Wu)"
    • Statement of limitation on a rear free endpaper:
      • This first edition of The Ringworld Engineers is limited to five hundred numbered copies, all of which have been signed by the author. This is number <handwritten copy number> <author's signature>
    • Novel ends on page 351. Glossary on pages 352-354. Ringworld Parameters on page 355
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Teallach 2022-07-03 14:10:31 Permanent 2022-08-28

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Clute/Grant N/A Bluesman 2013-04-09 22:57:43
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Contento1 (anth/coll) N/A Bluesman 2010-03-09 16:28:42
Currey N/A Bluesman 2010-03-09 16:28:43
Locus1 N/A Bluesman 2010-03-09 16:28:42
Miller/Contento N/A Bluesman 2010-03-09 16:28:42
OCLC/Worldcat Verified Bluesman 2010-03-09 16:28:43
Reginald1 N/A Bluesman 2010-03-09 16:28:42
Reginald3 Verified Bluesman 2013-04-09 22:57:43
Tuck N/A Bluesman 2010-03-09 16:28:42
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