The Best of Cordwainer Smith
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Overview:
- Title: The Best of Cordwainer Smith
- Author: Cordwainer Smith
- Year: 1977
- ISBN-10: 0345272021
- Publisher: Del Rey / Ballantine
- Price: $2.25
- Pages: xix+377
- Binding: Paperback
- Type: Collection
- Title Reference: The Best of Cordwainer Smith
- Notes:
- "Edited, with Introduction and Notes, by J. J. Pierce" on title page
- "Copyright © 1975 by Genevieve Linebarger"
- "Book Club Edition: July, 1975"
- "First Printing: September, 1975"
- "Second Printing: October 1977"; no number line
- "Cover art by Darrell Sweet" on copyright page, cover is not signed
- Printed in the US
- In this publication, the two stories "The Crime and the Glory of Commander Suzdal" and "Golden the Ship Was—Oh! Oh! Oh!" are printed in transposed order compared with the Nelson Doubleday / SFBC hc first edition
- The Timeline in both books lists "Suzdal" before "Golden". Both stories take place c13,000 A.D.