The Best of Cordwainer Smith

Overview:

  • Title: The Best of Cordwainer Smith
  • Author: Cordwainer Smith
  • Year: 1975
  • ISBN-10: 0345245814
  • Publisher: Ballantine Books
  • Price: $1.95
  • 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"
    • "First Printing: September, 1975"; no number line
    • "Book Club Edition: July, 1975"
    • "Cover art by Darrell Sweet" on copyright page, cover is not signed
    • Printed in the US
    • ISBN derived from 9 digit SBN
    • 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.