Notes: Internet bibliographic sources has this a double publisher [Paris] Seuil / [San Francisco] Chronicle. Not noted on copyright page. Issued without dustwrapper but with narrow black paper sleeve folded over rear cover with price, ISBN, barcode and text in French. Copyright page has "L'edition originale de cet ouverage publie par Chronicle Books a paru sous le titre Robota" with a copyright of 2003 "pour l'edition francaise" Assumed first printing, no numberline. Though 176 pages barely 50 are text, the rest is artwork Translated by Cedric Perderau