Merlin's Booke

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