Soft Targets

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Overview:

Title: Soft Targets
Author: Dean Ing
Year: 1980
ISBN-10: 0441774067
Publisher: Ace Books
Price: $2.50
Pages: 276+[4]
Binding: Paperback
Type: Novel
Title Reference: Soft Targets
Notes:
- "First Ace printing: October 1979" (over) "First mass market printing: May 1980" with an incomplete number line: "2 4 6 8 0 9 7 5 3" indicating the second Ace printing (a trade paperback edition was the first printing)
- "Cover art by Dean Ellis" stated on the copyright page.
- The author's afterword appears on three unnumbered pages at the end of the novel. The date "February 1980" at the end of the piece would indicate that it didn't appear in the first edition.