Alien

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Overview:

Title: Alien
Author: Alan Dean Foster
Year: 1980
Publisher: Bompiani
Price: Lit 2,800
Pages: 214
Binding: Trade Paperback
Type: Novel
Title Reference: Alien
Notes:
- Copyright page states: 1st edition i this series.
- OPAC-SBN provides ISBN 88-452-0695-5 but it is not written in the book.
- BNI # 822053.
- A dedication is printed on p. [5].
- The cover image is a still from the movie Alien (1979), directed by Ridley Scott.
- The back cover claims that this is the book from which Scott's film was taken; the truth is the opposite: the book is a novelisation from Dan O'Bannon's script, but a number of Italian reviewers believed the claim.