Hence
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Overview:
- Title: Hence
- Author: Brad Leithauser
- Year: 1989
- ISBN-10: 0394573110
- Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
- Price: $18.95
- Pages: xxiii+320
- Binding: Hardcover
- Type: Novel
- Title Reference: Hence
- Notes:
- "FIRST EDITION" stated on the copyright page.
- Year of publication stated on the title page. Month of publication from the code "2/89" printed on the back flap of the dustjacket.
- The copyright page contains the complete Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data including the year of publication (1989), the ISBN (0-394-57311-0), and the LCCN (88-45259).
- "Jacket design by Nicholas Gaetano" printed on the back flap of the dustjacket.
- As an authorial conceit, there is a second false title page with the book stated as "Hence: A Meditation in Voices by Garner Briggs" (over) "With a new introduction by Robin Orrin" (over) "THE REARGUARD PRESS / BOSTON". This page is followed by a false copyright page (©1997 by Garner Briggs) and a faux "Introduction" starting on page xv, credited at the end by "Robin Orrin". This is followed by a second false title page for Hence: A Meditation in Voices.
- Following the last pages of the novel, there is a false statement "A Note on the TYPE on which this book is set" and stating that the book was designed by "Terry Grinstead" of the Rearguard Press. This is followed by a page printing the true "A Note on the Type" indicating that the book was designed by Claire M. Naylon.