OX
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Overview:
- Title: OX
- Author: Piers Anthony
- Year: 1976
- Publisher: Nelson Doubleday / SFBC
- Price: $1.98
- Pages: 218
- Binding: Hardcover
- Type: Novel
- Title Reference: OX
- Notes:
- First edition (not stated). The "Nelson Doubleday" imprint implies an original publication by Doubleday book clubs. This edition appeared six months before the Avon paperback edition.
- "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 February 1976.
- No printed price or stated date of publication. Price is from a later SFBC catalog. Date is from the list provided by SFBC editor Andrew Wheeler to the rec.arts.sf.written newsgroup.
- "1801" printed at the bottom on the back flap of the dustjacket.
- First printing has gutter code "G3" [verified] on page 215, indicates a printing in January 1976.
- Known reprint codes: "G39" [PV6] September 1976
- "Jacket Painting by Richard V. Corben" printed on the back flap of the dustjacket, back cover [wraparound artwork] is also signed
- First printing has brown boards with orange lettering.