A Song of Stone

Overview:

  • Title: A Song of Stone
  • Author: Iain Banks
  • Year: 1998
  • ISBN-10: 0684857251
  • Publisher: Simon & Schuster
  • Price: $23.00
  • Pages: 280
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • Type: Novel
  • Title Reference: A Song of Stone
  • Notes:
    • Signed edition of an unstated number of copies. The otherwise blank sheet with the author's signature follows the front free endpaper.
    • No statement of edition on the copyright page, but there is a complete number line: "1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2".
    • The copyright page contains the complete Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data including the year of publication (1998), the ISBNs of both the trade edition (0-684-85353-1) and the signed edition (0-684-85725-1) [this record], and the LCCN (98-13076).
    • Month of publication from the date/price code printed on the back of the dust jacket: "09982250".
    • Price from the front flap of the dust jacket. It is unknown whether the price for the signed edition was priced differently than the trade edition.
    • "First published in Great Britain in 1997 by Abacus" stated on the copyright page.
    • "Jacket illustration by Peter Brown" printed on the back flap of the dust jacket.