Saucer: The Conquest
From Author Wars - https://authorwars.com/publications/saucer-the-conquest-275988.html
Overview:
- Title: Saucer: The Conquest
- Author: Stephen Coonts
- Year: 2005
- ISBN-10: 1587248484
- Publisher: Wheeler Publishing
- Price: $31.95
- Pages: 495
- Binding: Hardcover
- Type: Novel
- Title Reference: Saucer: The Conquest
- Notes:
- Assumed first printing as there is no number line.
- On the title page the title is listed as "Saucer" over "The Conquest".
- The source for the 2005-02-02 date is amazon.com. The publication has "Published in 2005 by arrangement with St. Martin's Press, LLC."
- The publisher is stated on the title page as "Wheeler" over "Publishing".
- "Printed in the United States on permanent paper."
- The story ends on page 493. Page [494] is blank. Page 495 is numbered and has a publisher's blurb that starts with "The employees of Thorndike Press hope you have have enjoyed this Large Print book." Page [495] is blank. ISFDB's rules about the page count indicate that the last numbered page should be recorded and so 495 is used for this record though page 495 would not have been counted had it not been numbered.
- The ISBN is stated as the ISBN10 "1-58724-848-4" on the copyright page and back cover. The back cover has an EAN13 barcode with 9781587248481.
- 2017-03-18 The $31.95 price is from Amazon.com on 2008-11-29 and can't be primary-verified as the transient-verified copy has a public library sticker in the lower-right part of the rear cover. It's possible the publication lists a price in that area. As of 2017-03-18 both amazon.com and amazon.ca are reporting the book as out of print and no longer show the list price. The publication is no longer listed on the publisher's web site. Worldcat does not show a price. Link+ b20017124 shows $31.95
- A cover artist credit is not stated in this publication though there's a chance there's a credit underneath the library sticker on the back cover. A signature is not visible within the artwork.
- The artwork is printed directly on the cover. There is no dust jacket or wrapper.
- Original publication record data from from Amazon.com as of 2008-11-29. When primary-verified everything matched except: Amazon reported the page count as 473 on 2008-11-29 and 452 on 2017-03-18. It's 495 pages.