Star King
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Overview:
- Title: Star King
- Author: Jack Vance
- Year: 1981
- ISBN-10: 0934438420
- Publisher: Underwood-Miller
- Price: $15.95
- Pages: 155
- Binding: Hardcover
- Type: Novel
- Title Reference: Star King
- Notes: Leather binding, no dust jacket.
Book claims limited edition of 700 copies, with 175 copies numbered and signed. Actual number of unsigned copies was 508 according to Chuck Miller.
The Jack Vance website lists the above ISBN. The ISBN as printed in the book is "0-934439-42-0" which is an invalid ISBN
The correct ISBN works on Amazon, the invalid one works on OCLC, though the record it brings up does not list any ISBN.
Price from Locus #251 (December 1981).
Frontispiece artist is not credited, but is given in Chalker/Owings. The artist's initials (backwards R and B) are shown on the frontispiece for The Face, the fourth book in the series and all artwork for the series are clearly from the same artist.