I Am Legend

Overview:

  • Title: I Am Legend
  • Author: Richard Matheson
  • Year: Unknown
  • ISBN-10: 9780575094161
  • Publisher: Gollancz / Orion
  • Price: £8.99
  • Pages: ix+162
  • Binding: Trade Paperback
  • Type: Novel
  • Title Reference: I Am Legend
  • Notes:
    Stated 20th printing of the 2010 edition, by number line. Title page:
    • "I Am Legend [over] Richard Matheson"
    • Gollancz colophon as imprint.
    Copyright page:
    • "Copyright © Richard Matheson 1954"
    • "Introduction Copyright © Graham Sleight 2009"
    • "Afterword Copyright © Stephen King 2000" (this is a printer's error, corrected to 2009 in this 2011 edition)
    • "First published in Great Britain in 1999 by [over] Millennium [over] An imprint of Orion Books Ltd"
    • "This edition published in Great Britain in 2010 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"
    • Number line: "20"
    • "ISBN 978 0 575 09416 1"
    • "Printed and bound in Great Britain by Clays Ltd, Elcograf S.p.A."
    Back cover:
    • "Based on illustration by Jim Thiesen" (no visible signature on the artwork)
    • "UK £8.99" (no additional pricing)
    • Author bio is headed; "Richard Matheson (1926-2013)"
    Spine:
    • SF Masterworks, I Am Legend in black; Richard Matheson in red, all on graduated yellow-to-white ground.
    Introduction is signed "Graham Sleight [over] August 2009" on page ix. Novel finishes on numbered page 160. Afterword is titled "Afterword [over] by Stephen King" and is unsigned on numbered page 162. Semi-gloss cover.

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