Alfred Bester's The Stars My Destination, Volume One: The Graphic Story Adaptation

Overview:

  • Title: Alfred Bester's The Stars My Destination, Volume One: The Graphic Story Adaptation
  • Author: Alfred Bester, Howard Chaykin
  • Year: 1979
  • ISBN-10: 0894370537
  • Publisher: Baronet Publishing Co.
  • Pages: [96]
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • Type: Novel
  • Title Reference: The Stars My Destination, Volume One: The Graphic Story Adaptation
  • Notes:
    • This listing is for the limited edition hardcover. Differences from the trade paper edition:
      • Issued in an edition of 3,000 in silver hardcovers blind-stamped with the title.
      • No price on the cover or in the book.
      • Contents are identical, except includes a limitation page following the front end paper. The limitation page features an additional artwork by Chaykin, the hand-written copy number (xxxx/3000), plus signatures of Howard Chaykin, Alfred Bester and Byron Preiss.
      • Included a slipcase sized to accommodate both volume 1 and the (never published) volume 2.
    • Otherwise, contents are the same as the trade paper edition:
      • Pages are not numbered.
      • Copyright info on page [1] includes "First Baronet edition published March 1979.", "Hardcover ISBN: 0-89437-053-7; softcover ISBN: 0-89437-052-9.", "This book is the first volume of a two-volume set. A limited, signed hardcover edition of this book is available from Baronet Publishing ...."
      • Byron Preiss' "Introduction" is followed by "... extracts from a longer memoir 'My Affair With Science Fiction'" by Alfred Bester which was first published in the anthology Nova 4.