I Am Legend

Overview:

  • Title: I Am Legend
  • Author: Richard Matheson
  • Year: 2011
  • ISBN-10: 9781407234670
  • Publisher: Gollancz / Orion
  • Price: £7.99
  • Pages: vii+162
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Type: Novel
  • Title Reference: I Am Legend
  • Notes:
    Dated 1st printing of this 2011 Masterworks edition with this ISBN. Title page:
    • VG50 colophon.
    Copyright page:
    • "Text copyright © 1954"
    • "Introduction copyright © Richard Morgan 2011"
    • "Afterword copyright © Stephen King 2009"
    • "First published in Great Britain in 1999 by [over] Millennium [over] An imprint of Orion Books Ltd"
    • "This edition published in Great Britain in 2011 by [over] Gollancz [over] An imprint of the Orion Publishing Group [over] Orion House, 5 Upper St Martin's Lane, [over] London WC2H 9EA"
    • "An Hachette UK Company"
    • "Printed and bound in the UK by CPI Group (UK) Ltd, Croydon, CR0 4YY"
    • No numberline, no ISBN.
    Back cover:
    • "Based on illustration by Jim Thiesen" (no visible signature on the artwork)
    • "UK £7.99" (no additional pricing)
    Spine:
    • "SF Masterworks", "I Am Legend" in black; "Richard Matheson" in red, all on graduated yellow-to-white ground.
    Introduction is signed "Richard Morgan" on page vii. Afterword is titled "Afterword by Stephen King" and is unsigned on page 162. Size: 11 x 17.7 cms (w x h) Gloss cover.

    Note: An established bookseller on abebooks comments, in part: "1st printing of 2011 edition. The cover claims to be SF Masterworks, but, bizarrely, this is the Gollancz 50 Collection edition (Same ISBN, VG50 logo on Title Page & same pagination) with the new SF Masterworks cover (wrong size paperback for SF Masterworks editions)."

    There are other versions of this image; different placings of the "I" in the title under the author's name and the quote beneath, and another with the quote on one line. See examples here and here.