Jack, the Giant-Killer

Overview:

  • Title: Jack, the Giant-Killer
  • Author: Charles de Lint
  • Year: 1987
  • ISBN-10: 0441379699
  • Publisher: Ace Books
  • Price: $16.95
  • Pages: [8]+viii+202
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • Type: Novel
  • Title Reference: Jack, the Giant-Killer
  • Notes:
    • "First Printing, November 1987" (over) "A limited, signed, first edition was published by Donald M. Grant, Publisher, Inc." stated on the copyright page with a complete number line: "10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1".
    • The copyright page contains the complete Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data including the year of publication (1987), the ISBN (0-441-37969-9), and the LCCN.
    • Month of publication "11/87" printed on the back flap of the dustjacket.
    • The title as stated on the copyright page: Jack, the Giant-Killer / The Jack of Kinrowan: A Novel of Urban Faerie. The title page gives the title and author credit as Jack • The Giant • Killer by "Charles • de Lint". As this appears to be a designer choice, and not one of the author's, the simpler form of the copyright title is being used for this record.
    • "Book design by Thomas Canty" stated on the copyright page.
    • "Jacket painting and design by Thomas Canty" printed on the back flap of the dustjacket.
    • There are eight unnumbered pages before the roman-numeraled ones. They have been added to this record in order to place the frontispiece.
    • The frontispiece is a full-page B&W reproduction of the dustjacket's front cover art.