Publication: The Secret Backs of Things

Publication: The Secret Backs of ThingsPublication Record # 425897
Author: Christopher Golden
Date: 2010-09-08
ISBN: 978-1-58767-206-4 [1-58767-206-5]
Publisher: Cemetery Dance Publications
Price:
$175.00^?$: US dollar
Pages: 427
Format:
hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
Type: COLLECTION
Cover: The Secret Backs of Things by Alan M. Clark
Notes:
- A limitation page following the front loose endpaper has the statement at the bottom: "This deluxe signed edition is limited to 52 lettered copies." (over) "This is letter _____." into which the letter has been handwritten. The author's signature is in the center of the page.
- The book is bound in leather with a green satin ribbon page marker, a dustjacket (with wraparound cover art, same as the regular signed edition), and housed in a leatherbound and velvet-lined traycase.
- "First Edition" and "Cemetery Dance Publications 2010" stated on the copyright page with a complete number line: "10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1".
- Year of publication stated on the title page. Date of publication from the publisher's website.
- The word "Backs" is mirrored on the limitation page, the half-title page and the full title page.
- The subtitle "A short story collection" is printed on the front of the dustjacket, the book, and the traycase, but not on the title page.
- All new material, including the introduction, three new stories, and the interior art, is copyrighted 2007, but the book did not appear until 2010.
- Both ISBN-10 and ISBN-13 are stated on the copyright page.
- "Dust Jacket Art: © 2010 by Alan M. Clark" (over) "Dust Jacket Design: Gail Cross" (over) "Typesetting and Design: Bill Walker" (over) "All interior art work is © 2007 by Glenn Chadbourne." stated on the copyright page.
- Each story is followed by author afterwords of varying lengths.

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Collection Title: The Secret Backs of Things • collection by Christopher Golden

Fiction and Essays (view Full Listing)

9 • Making Myths: An Introduction • essay by Tim Lebbon
15 • The Art of the Deal • (2006) • short story by Christopher Golden
37 • Runaway • (2000) • short story by Christopher Golden
53 • Wall to Wall • (2004) • short story by Christopher Golden
57 • Pyre • (2002) • novella by Christopher Golden
123 • The Nuckelavee • (2000) • short story by Christopher Golden and Mike Mignola
139 • The Last Straw • (1996) • short story by Christopher Golden
155 • Dead Flies on My Shoulder • (1997) • short fiction by Christopher Golden
165 • One • (1994) • short story by Christopher Golden
183 • Venus and Mars • (2004) • short story by Christopher Golden
201 • Pa-Kow • short story by Christopher Golden
217 • Lament for the Gunwitch • (1998) • short story by Christopher Golden
237 • The Urge • short story by Christopher Golden
257 • Burning Questions • short story by Christopher Golden
275 • Dakini • (2002) • short story by Christopher Golden
297 • The Shell Collector • (2006) • novella by Christopher Golden
367 • Facets of Solitaire • (1995) • novelette by Christopher Golden
389 • The Secret Backs of Things • (2005) • short story by Christopher Golden
403 • The Mournful Cry of Owls • (2007) • novelette by Christopher Golden

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