Das Weißbuch des Schwarzen Humors

Overview:

  • Title: Das Weißbuch des Schwarzen Humors
  • Author: Hans Gamber
  • Year: 1984
  • ISBN-10: 3453018974
  • Publisher: Heyne
  • Price: DM 7.80
  • Pages: 252
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Type: Anthology
  • Title Reference: Überlebenstyp
  • Notes:
    • First edition ("Originalausgabe" is stated on the title page and on the back).
    • {{Tr|diverse hands}}: though there is a list of translators on the copyright page the individual works are not credited.
    • The copyright is assigned for the year 1984 to the publisher.
    • Apparent first printing.
    • "Printed in Germany 1984" is stated on the copyright page.
    • The table of contents is printed on p. 5f.
    • Most of the jokes and cartoons are injected into the various stories.
    • There are some more items that are not indexed: they are either uncredited illustrations by unknown artists or non-speculative works by nongenre authors & artists (this nongenre work appears on pp. 102, 115, 140-143, 150, 165, 170-177, 187 & 214-230, and includes shortfiction by de Sade, Jack Ritchie and P. J. O'Rourke).
    • The last two pages of the final item (pp. 251 & 252) are unnumbered.
    • The cover art is not credited; there's no signature.
    • The cover design is credited to Atelier Ingrid Schütz.