Dangerous Laughter: Thirteen Stories

Overview:

  • Title: Dangerous Laughter: Thirteen Stories
  • Author: Steven Millhauser
  • Year: 2008
  • ISBN-10: 9780307267566
  • Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
  • Price: $24.00
  • Pages: 244
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • Type: Collection
  • Title Reference: Dangerous Laughter
  • Notes:
    • "Published February 15 2008" (over) "Second Printing, February 2008" stated on the copyright page.
    • The copyright page contains the complete Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data including the year of publication (2008), the ISBN (978-0-307-26756-6), and the LCCN (2007022929).
    • Year of publication stated on the title page.
    • Collection is divided into four sections:
      • Opening Cartoon (pages 1-18, one story)
      • Vanishing Acts (pages 19-110, four stories)
      • Impossible Architectures (pages 111-158, four stories)
      • Heretical Histories (pages 159-244, four stories)
    • On unnumbered page [246] there is the brief "A Note About the Author", followed by "A Note on the Type".
    • "Designed by Iris Weinstein" stated at the bottom of the unnumbered page [246] below "A Note on the Type".
    • "Front-of-jacket illustration by Earle Bergey, courtesy of The Advertising Archives" (over) "Jacket design by Peter Mendelsund" printed on the back flap of the dustjacket.
    • Subtitled "13 Stories" on the front cover and "Thirteen Stories" on the title page.