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Publication: The Black Hole

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  • Publication: The Black HolePublication Record # 36060
  • Author: Alan Dean Foster
  • Date: 1980-04-00
  • Catalog ID: 3705
  • Publisher: Del Rey / Ballantine / SFBC
  • Price:
    $2.49?$: US dollar
  • Pages: 186
  • Format:
    hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
  • Type: NOVEL
  • Notes:
    • First hardcover edition [not stated]
    • First printing has gutter code "K07" [verified] on page 184, indicates a printing in February 1980. Known reprint code "K10" [PV2].
    • An April selection of the SFBC
    • Price from Locus #233 (May 1980).
    • "Book Club Edition" on front flap; SFBC # on rear flap
    • "Cover art courtesy of Walt Disney Productions" on copyright page
    • First printing has red boards with black lettering
  • External IDs:
Cover art supplied by ISFDB on this Web page

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Primary Verifications

Verifier Date Type Last User Activity Date
Bluesman 2013-04-07 12:14:49 Permanent 2018-12-28
98Nascar 2014-02-13 13:13:32 Permanent 2015-03-05
1970PlumbCrazy 2021-10-17 22:59:31 Permanent 2022-09-01

Secondary Verifications

Source Status Verifier Date
Bleiler Early Years Not Verified    
Bleiler Supernatural Not Verified    
Bleiler1 (Gernsback) N/A Bluesman 2013-04-07 12:14:49
Bleiler78 N/A Bluesman 2013-04-07 12:14:49
Clute/Grant N/A Bluesman 2013-04-07 12:14:49
Clute/Nicholls N/A Bluesman 2013-04-07 12:14:49
Contento1 (anth/coll) N/A Bluesman 2013-04-07 12:14:49
Currey N/A Bluesman 2013-04-07 12:14:49
Locus1 N/A Bluesman 2013-04-07 12:14:49
Miller/Contento N/A Bluesman 2013-04-07 12:14:49
OCLC/Worldcat Verified Bluesman 2013-04-07 12:14:49
Reginald1 N/A Bluesman 2013-04-07 12:14:49
Reginald3 N/A Bluesman 2013-04-07 12:14:49
Tuck N/A Bluesman 2013-04-07 12:14:49
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