Footprints on Sand

Overview:

  • Title: Footprints on Sand
  • Author: L. Sprague de Camp, Catherine Crook de Camp
  • Year: 1981
  • ISBN-10: 0911682252
  • Publisher: Advent: Publishers
  • Price: $12.00
  • Pages: xvii+327
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • Type: Collection
  • Title Reference: Footprints on Sand
  • Notes:
    • Limited edition of 1500 copies.
    • Stated first edition.
    • The first 500 copies were numbered and signed, and sold for $16.00, according to the listing in Locus #247 (August 1981).
    • 10 copies were flexible-bound in morocco, according to information on p. [330].
    • Laughlin & Levack, De Camp, Underwood-Miller, 1983 lists five variants:
      1. One copy bound in flexible brown morocco leather;
      2. 983 copies bound in burgundy cloth (trade edition);
      3. 460 copies bound in burgundy cloth, signed by the de Camps and numbered;
      4. 8 copies bound in red buckram; and
      5. 9 copies in half-leather binding using morocco and marbled paper.
    • States 1 and 5 were produced by Jeff Ford (not Advent). The trade state was reprinted in 1982.