The Best of Ian McDonald

Overview:

  • Title: The Best of Ian McDonald
  • Author: Ian McDonald
  • Year: 2016
  • ISBN-10: 9781848638914
  • Publisher: PS Publishing
  • Price: £50.00
  • Pages: 546
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • Type: Collection
  • Title Reference: Some Strange Desire
  • Notes:
    • On copyright page:
      • Cover & Endpaper Art Copyright © Jim Burns 2016
      • Published in April 2016 by PS Publishing Ltd.
      • First Edition
      • Design & Layout by Michael Smith
    • No statement of printing; no numberline
    • Deluxe edition not issued separately. Only issued as part of a two volume slipcased set with Floating Dogs
    • Slipcase is laminated and has full colour photograph of author
    • ISBNs for regular and deluxe editions printed on copyright page and rear cover of dustjacket, however, barcode on rear cover of dustjacket has ISBN for regular edition. Presumably, same dust jacket used for both editions.
    • Barcode on slipcase has ISBN of deluxe edition
    • Laminated pictorial boards with same full colour wraparound artwork as dust jacket but no lettering
    • Fiction ends on page 540. Story Notes on numbered pages 541-546
    • Full colour, double page artwork on front pastedown, repeated on rear pastedown
    • Statement of limitation on page [1]:
        This special signed edition of
        The Best of
        Ian McDonald
        is limited to 100 copies.
        An unsigned edition is also available
        <author's signature>
        Ian McDonald
        <handwritten copy number>
        This is copy
    • Additional full colour artwork on statement of limitation page
    • Originally scheduled for May 2015 [source unknown; possibly review in Locus magazine or publisher's website]