The 10th Victim

Overview:

• Title: The 10th Victim
• Author: Robert Sheckley
• Year: 1978
• ISBN-10: 0839824408
• Publisher: Gregg Press
• Price: $9.00
• Pages: xiii+158+[8]
• Binding: Hardcover
• Type: Novel
• Title Reference: The 10th Victim
• Notes:
  • "First Printing, June 1978" stated on the copyright page.
  • "This is a complete photographic reprint of a work first published in New York by Ballantine Books, Inc. in 1965." stated on the copyright page.
  • No dust jacket, as issued. Black buckram with titles in gold on red background.
  • Author's name is misspelled as "Robert Scheckley" on the spine.
  • No printed price. Price from Gregg Press catalog. Later raised to $9.95.
  • There are eight unnumbered pages of black-and-white photographs from the movie inserted between pages 64 and 65.
  • Copyright page contains the complete Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data including the ISBN (0-8398-2440-8) and the LCCN (78-1753)
  • The copyright page statement "Frontispiece is a still photograph of Marcello Mastroianni as Marcello Polletti in the film, The 10th Victim" is incorrect. It is a photograph of Robert Sheckley, the author.
  • Both title pages (one for the Gregg Press edition and one for the original Ballantine edition) state the title as The 10th Victim. The running header on all non-chapter leading pages state the title as The Tenth Victim.