Red As Blood (or Tales from the Sisters Grimmer)
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Overview:
- Title: Red As Blood (or Tales from the Sisters Grimmer)
- Author: Tanith Lee
- Year: 1983
- Publisher: DAW Books / SFBC
- Price: $4.98
- Pages: 186
- Binding: Hardcover
- Type: Collection
- Title Reference: Paid Piper
- Notes:
- First hardcover edition (not stated.)
- Title page gives the subtitle in parentheses as shown in this record. Front of the dustjacket gives the titles as Red as Blood or Tales From the Sisters Grimmer.
- "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 March 1983.
- No printed price or stated date of publication. Both given here are taken from the SFBC announcement flyer for March 1983, confirmed by the listing in Locus #268 (May 1983).
- "Interior Illustrations by Tanith Lee" stated on the copyright page.
- "4006" printed at the bottom on the back of the dustjacket ("04006" after June 1985).
- First printing has a gutter code of N01, indicating a printing in Feb. 1983.
- There is no gutter code in the verified copy. This may indicate that the verified copy is from a later printing.
- "Jacket illustration by Victoria Poyser" printed on the back flap of the dustjacket.
- The ISBN of the DAW Books paperback edition, 087997-790-6 [sic], is printed on the copyright page.
- The contents page gives the setting and time period in which the story takes place, e.g. "Paid Piper (Asia: The Last Century B.C.)". These places and dates do not appear on the individual stories' title pages.