Schachbrett der Sterne
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Overview:
- Title: Schachbrett der Sterne
- Author: Gerhard Klein
- Year: 1977
- Publisher: Pabel-Moewig
- Price: DM 1.50
- Pages: 63
- Binding: digest
- Type: Novel
- Title Reference: Schachbrett der Sterne
- Notes:
- First German edition ("Neu!" is stated on the cover), likely abridged.
- {{Tr|Lore Straßl}}, possibly from the English version.
- The copyright is assigned for the year 1965 to Editions Fleuve Noir.
- The author's name is spelled correctly on the cover, but not on the title page.
- Apparent first (and likely only) printing.
- "Mai 1977" is stated in the copyright section on p. 63.
- Day of publication from Terra Astra's weekly schedule; this publication and Perry Rhodan #820 also share the same ads on their respective back covers, pp. 65 & 66 and some of the smaller ads incorporated in the text corpus.
- Editor: Günter M. Schelwokat.
- Attention: the page count begins with the cover and the pub. has no ISBN, since it was not available in regular book shops.
- No credit for the cover art, no visible signature, but Themistokles Kanellakis is credited for taking over cover art from Jones in #589 of the pub. series (and this piece of art matches Jones' style).
- Other prices: S 12.00 (Austria), Fr 2.00 (Switzerland), Lire 600 (Italy), frs 24.00 (Luxemburg), frs 25.00 (Belgium), FF 2.80 (France), hfl 1.80 (Netherlands), Pts 46.00 (Spain).