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Publication: Greetings, Carbon-Based Bipeds!: Collected Essays 1934-1998

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  • Publication: Greetings, Carbon-Based Bipeds!: Collected Essays 1934-1998Publication Record # 16016
  • Author: Arthur C. Clarke
  • Date: 1999-08-00
  • ISBN: 0-312-19893-0 [978-0-312-19893-0]
  • Publisher: St. Martin's Press
  • Price:
    $35.00?$: US dollar
  • Pages: xvii+558
  • Format:
    hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
  • Type: NONFICTION
  • Notes:
    • Stated: "First Edition: August 1999"
    • First printing by number line (10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1).
    • "Jacket design by Henry Sene Yee"
    • "Jacket photograph courtesy of Archive Photos / Popperfoto"
    • There is a 16-page insert of B&W photographs between pages 238 and 239.
    • Staring on page 541 there are the sources, the index and note about author and editor.
      • "Rough Cut" technique used. Gives the book a unfinished, vintage or unique look, but this applies to all copies of this edition - at least all of the first printing.
    • Locus1 mistakenly has the page count as 358.
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Nonfiction Title: Greetings, Carbon-Based Bipeds!: Collected Essays 1934-1998 • nonfiction by Arthur C. Clarke

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