Publication: Assassin's Quest

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Publication: Assassin's QuestPublication Record # 565870
Author: Robin Hobb
Date: date unknown
ISBN: 0-553-56569-9 [978-0-553-56569-0]
Publisher: Bantam Spectra
Price:
$6.99^?$: US dollar
Pages: 757+[17]
Format:
pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.
Type: NOVEL
Cover: Assassin's Quest (1998) • by Stephen Youll [as by Steven Youll]
Notes:
- "Bantam mass market edition / January 1998"
- 7th printing per number line "OPM 0 9 8 7" on copyright page.
- Date of 7th printing unknown, estimated as between 1999-04 and 2000-03 (see below).
- Above title on title page: The Farseer
- "Copyright © 1997 by Robin Hobb"
- Also mentions previous Bantam hardcover edition / January 1997
- Per copyright page: Cover art copyright © 1997 by Steven Youll.
- Cover note: Title and author name embossed. Title in metallic gold. Cover matches image as shown with these exceptions: below author name it says "AUTHOR OF SHIP OF MAGIC", and prices at bottom of spine are different.
- Canada price C$9.99
- There is an uncredited and unsigned map titled "Six Duchies" preceding pagination.
- Following pagination there is an excerpt titled "The Liveship Traders: Ship of Magic" on un-numbered pages [759-574].
- LCCN 96-42354 per copyright page.
- Evidence for printing date: inside front cover lists Ship of Magic as in print and Mad Ship as "in hardcover" (1999-04-00). USA paperback release of Mad Ship was on 2000-03-00.
External IDs:
- LCCN: 96-42354

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Contents (view Concise Listing)

bp • Six Duchies (map for Assassin's Quest) • (1997) • interior artwork by uncredited
1 • Assassin's Quest • [The Farseer • 3] • (1997) • novel by Robin Hobb
[759] • Ship of Magic (excerpt) • [Liveship Traders] • (1998) • short fiction by Robin Hobb

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