Percy Jackson and the Olympians
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Overview:
- Title: Percy Jackson and the Olympians
- Author: Rick Riordan
- Year: 2014
- ISBN-10: 9781484707234
- Publisher: Disney/Hyperion Books
- Price: $35.00
- Pages: 377+[10]+279+[32]+312+[32]+361+[31]+381+[39]
- Binding: Trade Paperback
- Type: Omnibus
- Title Reference: The Lightning Thief
- Notes:
- Amazon description: "Percy Jackson and the Olympians 5 Book Paperback Boxed Set (new covers w/poster)"; "now with glorious new cover art and packaged with a special poster"
- Product Dimensions: 5.5 x 4.5 x 7.7 inches. The poster is 14 x 5 inches.
- The box, all five books, and the poster display "Percy Jackson and the Olympians" with the writer's name (mostly with subheading "The Complete Series" on the box).
- The books are numbered with Roman numerals I-V on the cover and spine. The individual books are not retitled and are also listed on the back of the box, e.g., "The Lightning Thief".
- Price on the bottom of the box cover ($35.00 / C$35.00).
- Disney Books list the release date as May 7, 2014. But Amazon, Barnes & Noble, as well as Books In Print online database date the release June 3, 2014.
- The books included with the box are also sold individually and bear ISBNs 978-1-4231-0334-9 (v.II), 978-1-4231-0148-2 (v.III), 978-1-4231-0149-9 (v.IV), and 978-1-4231-0150-5 (v.V).
- The art on the box and the poster is based largely on the covers of inidividual books. Additionally, the spines of all five books form an image.
- John Rocco is credited for the poster on the front cover of the box and, with the copyright year 2014, for cover illustration on the bottom of the box. Individual books credit John Rocco for cover illustration, also copyrighted 2014, on the back covers. Individual books additionally credit SJI Associates, Inc. for cover design.
- Each book except the last includes an excerpt from the next book in the box, followed by an excerpt (not always of the same length) from "The Red Pyramid" from "The Kane Chronicles". For the last book, the excerpt from "The Red Pyramid" is preceded with an excerpt from "The Lost Hero", the first book of the cycle "The Heroes of Olympus" that continues "Percy Jackson and the Olympians".
- Some of the above data was initially obtained from Amazon 2016-01-12 and later verified and corrected.