Nova
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Overview:
- Title: Nova
- Author: Samuel R. Delany
- Year: 1969
- Publisher: Doubleday / SFBC
- Pages: 279
- Binding: Hardcover
- Type: Novel
- Title Reference: Nova
- Notes:
- "Book Club Edition" printed at the bottom of the front flap of the dustjacket indicates a printing by Doubleday for its various book clubs.
- Selection of the Science Fiction Book Club for May 1969.
- No printed price or stated date of publication. Month of publication is from the list provided by SFBC editor Andrew Wheeler to the rec.arts.sf.written newsgroup.
- "1771" printed at the bottom on the back flap of the dustjacket.
- First printing has gutter code "11K" [verified] on the fourth blank page after page 279, indicates a printing in March 1969. Reprinted with gutter code "16K" (May 1969) [PV1].
- "Jacket illustration by Russell Fitzgerald" (over) "Jacket Typography by Catherine Hopkins" printed on the back flap of the dustjacket.
- This edition incorporates "textual changes" from the trade edition. - Currey