Ringworld

Overview:

  • Title: Ringworld
  • Author: Larry Niven
  • Year: Unknown
  • ISBN-10: 9781407239941
  • Publisher: Gollancz / Orion
  • Price: £7.99
  • Pages: 288
  • Binding: Trade Paperback
  • Type: Novel
  • Title Reference: Ringworld
  • Notes:
    Undated, assumed 1st printing - no numberline. Title page:
    • Old-style 'SF Masterworks' underlined and circle design.
    • Gollancz colophon as imprint.
    Copyright page:
    • "Copyright © Larry Niven 1970"
    • "First published in Great Britain in 2005 by [over] Gollancz [over] An imprint of the Orion Publishing Group [over] Orion House, 5 Upper St Martin's Lane, [over] London WC2H 9EA"
    • "An Hachette Livre UK company"
    • "ISBN 978 1 407 23994 1"
    • "Printed in Great Britain by Clays Ltd, St Ives plc"
    Back cover:
    • "UK £7.99" (no additional pricing)
    • "Cover illustration by Steven Vincent Johnson" (no visible signature on the artwork)
    Spine:
    • "SF Masterworks", "Ringworld" in black; "Larry Niven" in green, all on graduated yellow-to-white ground.
    Novel starts on first numbered page, 5.
    • Gloss cover.
    • James Blish quote on cover of this printing, omitted from later printings.
    • Gollancz website states publication date in 2005, but this series was first published in 2010, so presumably 2005 was the original SF Masterworks printing.