Frankenstein, or, The Modern Prometheus
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Overview:
- Title: Frankenstein, or, The Modern Prometheus
- Author: Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
- Year: Unknown
- ISBN-10: 9781595822000
- Publisher: Dark Horse Books
- Price: $29.95
- Pages: 250+[2]
- Binding: Hardcover
- Type: Novel
- Title Reference: Introduction (Frankenstein, or, The Modern Prometheus)
- Notes:
- "First edition: October 2008" stated on the copyright page with an incomplete number line: "10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2".
- The cover and spine give the title as Frankenstein.
- No dustjacket. Cloth-covered binding with Wrightson's artwork inlaid on the front cover.
- Oversized: 32 cm.
- "written by MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY" (over) "illustrations by BERNIE WRIGHTSON" (over) "introduction by STEPHEN KING" printed on the front cover, in silver embossing on the cloth.
- The decorated title page gives the title as "Frankenstein" (over) "or" (over) "The Modern Prometheus" and "by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley" and "with pictures by Bernie Wrightson".
- The copyright page contains the complete Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data including the year of publication (2008), the ISBN (978-1-59582-200-0), and the LCCN (2008026460).
- "Originally published: New York : Marvel, 1983" stated in the LoC CIP Data.
- Includes a bound-in silver-colored silk ribbon as a bookmark.
- Includes 47 full-page B&W illustrations by Wrightson, printed on the recto with a detail from the same illustration enlarged on the verso of each.
- Price not printed in the book, but part of the barcode of the removable sticker on the back of the book.
- With two sets of illustrated endpapers.
- The last numbered page is 250 but there are two more unnumbered page of Wrightson's illustrations.
- This printing was available from the SFBC as of 2009-08-00 for $19.99. SFBC catalog #08-3231.