Shardik
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Overview:
- Title: Shardik
- Author: Richard Adams
- Year: 1975
- Publisher: Simon & Schuster / BCE
- Price: $7.50
- Pages: 529
- Binding: Hardcover
- Type: Novel
- Title Reference: Shardik
- Notes:
- "Book Club Edition" printed at the bottom of the front flap of the dustjacket indicates a printing by Doubleday for its various book clubs.
- No stated date of publication or printed price.
- Price for this record is the book's selection of the Literary Guild, May 1975.
- This was also an alternate selection of the SFBC, for June 1976 priced at $4.49. It may have been offered earlier by the SFBC.
- "1034" printed at the bottom of the back flap of the dustjacket.
- Gutter code "14R" on page 525 indicates a printing in April 1975. Known reprints include gutter code "17R".
This record has been dated for the average six week delay for publication by the Doubleday Book Club based on the gutter code. The BC assigned ID number "1034" also falls into this month. - "Jacket design © 1975 by Wendell Minor" printed on the back flap of the dustjacket.
- The artist of the map of the Beklan Empire (which appears on the endpapers) is credited on the copyright page.