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  • Publication: The Year of the RansomPublication Record # 50691
  • Author: Poul Anderson
  • Date: 1988-04-00
  • ISBN: 0-8027-6800-8 [978-0-8027-6800-1]
  • Publisher: Walker & Co.
  • Pub. Series: Millennium
  • Pub. Series #: 6
  • Price:
    $15.95?$: US dollar
  • Pages: 169
  • Format:
    hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
  • Type: CHAPBOOK
  • Cover: The Year of the Ransom by Paul Rivoche
  • Notes:
    • No statement of edition on the copyright page, but there is a complete number line: "10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1".
    • The copyright page contains the complete Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data including the year of publication (1988), the ISBNs of this hardcover edition (0-8027-6800-8) and a paperback edition (0-8027-6801-6), and the LCCN (87-29054). There is no record of a paperback printing of this editon.
    • Month of publication from Locus1.
    • "Illustrated by Paul Rivoche" (over) [Millennium logo] (over) "Millennium" (over) "A Byron Preiss Book" (over) [Walker logo] (over) "Walker and Company" (over) "New York".
    • "Cover painting by Paul Rivoche." (over) "Book design by Alex Jay/Studio J" (over) "Book edited by David M. Harris" stated on the copyright page.
    • "Book and Cover design by Alex Jay" (over) "Cover painting by Paul Rivoche" (over) "Logo design by Lebbeus Woods" printed on the back flap of the dustjacket.
    • There are six double-page B&W illustrations by Rivoche.
    • There are less than 110 pages of text with large print and wide margins, so there's a possibility that this is a novella and should be treated as a chapterbook. A rough word count makes it 25,000 words.
    • The Millennium series numbering is not stated in the book itself, but this title is the sixth listed on the page facing the title page.
  • External IDs:
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Chapbook Title: The Year of the Ransom • chapbook by Poul Anderson

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