Assassin's Quest
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Overview:
- Title: Assassin's Quest
- Author: Robin Hobb
- Year: Unknown
- ISBN-10: 0553565699
- Publisher: Bantam Spectra
- Price: $6.99
- Pages: 757+[17]
- Binding: Paperback
- Type: Novel
- Title Reference: Assassin's Quest
- Notes:
- "Bantam mass market edition / January 1998"
- 7th printing per number line "OPM 0 9 8 7" on copyright page.
- Date of 7th printing unknown, estimated as between 1999-04 and 2000-03 (see below).
- Above title on title page: The Farseer
- "Copyright © 1997 by Robin Hobb"
- Also mentions previous Bantam hardcover edition / January 1997
- Per copyright page: Cover art copyright © 1997 by Steven Youll.
- Cover note: Title and author name embossed. Title in metallic gold. Cover matches image as shown with these exceptions: below author name it says "AUTHOR OF SHIP OF MAGIC", and prices at bottom of spine are different.
- Canada price C$9.99
- There is an uncredited and unsigned map titled "Six Duchies" preceding pagination.
- Following pagination there is an excerpt titled "The Liveship Traders: Ship of Magic" on un-numbered pages [759-574].
- LCCN 96-42354 per copyright page.
- Evidence for printing date: inside front cover lists Ship of Magic as in print and Mad Ship as "in hardcover" (1999-04-00). USA paperback release of Mad Ship was on 2000-03-00.