ISFDB banner

The ISFDB is moving servers the week of 9/4.

Editing will be disabled on 9/6 until the database is migrated, and you may see either the old server or the new server while the domain name change propagates across the Internet.

You are currently on the OLD SERVER.

Publication: Assassin's Quest

You are not logged in. If you create a free account and sign in, you will be able to customize what is displayed.

picture
  • 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 (1997) • 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:
Cover art supplied by ISFDB on this Web page

Fiction and Essays (view Full Listing)

Primary Verifications

Verifier Date Type Last User Activity Date
BungalowBarbara 2016-04-04 18:25:15 Transient 2018-11-07

Secondary Verifications

Source Status Verifier Date
Bleiler Early Years Not Verified    
Bleiler Supernatural Not Verified    
Bleiler1 (Gernsback) Not Verified    
Bleiler78 Not Verified    
Clute/Grant Not Verified    
Clute/Nicholls Not Verified    
Contento1 (anth/coll) Not Verified    
Currey Not Verified    
Locus1 Not Verified    
Miller/Contento Not Verified    
OCLC/Worldcat Not Verified    
Reginald1 Not Verified    
Reginald3 Not Verified    
Tuck Not Verified    
Copyright © 1995-2022 Al von Ruff and the ISFDB team
ISFDB Engine - Version 4.00 (2006-04-24)
ISFDB is an Amazon Associate in order to have access to Amazon's product data. As an Amazon Associate ISFDB earns from qualifying purchases.