The Best of Fredric Brown
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Overview:
- Title: The Best of Fredric Brown
- Author: Fredric Brown
- Year: 1977
- Publisher: Nelson Doubleday / SFBC
- Price: $2.49
- Pages: 280
- Binding: Hardcover
- Type: Collection
- Title Reference: The Best of Fredric Brown
- Notes:
- First edition (not stated); an exclusive SFBC edition indicated by the Nelson Doubleday imprint
- First printing has gutter code "G50" [verified] on page 278, indicates a printing in December 1976.
- A January 1977 Selection of the SFBC; source of the price not known
- Edited by Robert Bloch
- "Book Club Edition" on front flap; SFBC # on rear flap
- "Jacket illustration by Richard V. Corben" on rear flap, the artwork is also signed
- Introduction titled "Introduction: A Brown Study" on the copyright page.
- First printing has lime-green boards with black lettering.
- Book club edition has "Block" instead of Bloch on the spine.