Death in Florence

Overview:

  • Title: Death in Florence
  • Author: George Alec Effinger
  • Year: 1978
  • ISBN-10: 0385111908
  • Publisher: Doubleday
  • Price: $6.95
  • Pages: 185+[1]
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • Type: Novel
  • Title Reference: Death in Florence
  • Notes:
    • "First Edition" stated on the copyright page.
    • The copyright page contains the complete Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data including the ISBN (0-385-11190-8), and the LCCN (77-80883).
    • Year of publication stated on the title page. Month of publication based on the library catalog card affixed to the verified copy, dated "27 MAR 78". The gutter code corroborates this date.
    • Gutter code "T5" on the unnumbered page following page 185 indicates a printing in late January 1978.
    • The last page is unnumbered and contains a somewhat oblique afterword by the author.
    • "Jacket by John Cayea" printed on the back flap of the dustjacket.
    • On pp. 145-146 is a contest, HAVE YOU BEEN PAYING ATTENTION?, in which Effinger asks 10 questions about this novel and lists an address (245 Park Ave., New York, N.Y. 10022) to send the answers to; the answers were published in his Doubleday collection, Dirty Tricks, and the winners received autographed copies of the collection.