Merlin's Booke
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Overview:
- Title: Merlin's Booke
- Author: Jane Yolen
- Year: 1986
- ISBN-10: 0441525520
- Publisher: Ace Fantasy Books
- Price: $2.95
- Pages: xiii+178
- Binding: Paperback
- Type: Collection
- Title Reference: Merlin's Booke
- Notes:
- Apparent first printing; stated Ace Fantasy Edition May 1986 with no number line; no hardcover printing listed
- "Cover art by Thomas Canty, Newbury Studios", no visible signature on the wraparound artwork
- Page numbering ends on 176, but two unnumbered pages of content follow
- Locus Index to Science Fiction page count disagrees (177 pp.), but their own contents lists p. 178 (which is the last page and is correct) for L'Envoi
- Each contained work is separated from the others by an unnumbered (but counted) page containing a quote/excerpt from an apropos source
- Content dates from copyrights on "Acknowledgments" page + Locus; all 1986 content explicitly stated "First publication"
- $3.75 in Canada