Orn
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Overview:
- Title: Orn
- Author: Piers Anthony
- Year: 1971
- Publisher: Nelson Doubleday / SFBC
- Price: $1.49
- Pages: 247
- Binding: Hardcover
- Type: Novel
- Title Reference: Orn
- Notes:
- First edition (not stated). The Nelson Doubleday imprint indicates an original publication for Doubleday book clubs.
- No printed price or stated date of publication. Price is from a later SFBC announcement flyer. Date is from the list provided by SFBC editor Andrew Wheeler to the rec.arts.sf.written newsgroup.
- This Fall 1971 selection of the SFBC, with the gutter code "B37" [verified] on page 246, is the true first edition.
- Known reprint codes: "C1" (Jan '72); "K20" [verified PV6] May '80; "M10" [verified] [Mar '82, with SFBC # now on the back cover]
- "Book Club Edition" on front flap; SFBC # on rear flap
- "Jacket painting by Frank Frazetta" on rear flap, the artwork is also signed
- First printing bound in black leatherette with orange/brown lettering; '82 printing has black boards with orange lettering