The Black Tower

Overview:

• Title: The Black Tower
• Author: Richard A. Lupoff
• Year: 1988
• ISBN-10: 0553273469
• Publisher: Bantam Spectra
• Price: $3.95
• Pages: xiv+339+[14]
• Binding: Paperback
• Type: Novel
• Title Reference: The Black Tower
• Notes:
  • A Bantam Spectra Book / August 1988.
  • First printing by number line: O 0 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1
  • Cover art and interior sketches by Robert Gould.
  • Cover design and logo by Alex Jay/Studio J.
  • Copyright 1988 by Byron Preiss Visual Publications, Inc.
  • Cover art and sketches copyright 1988 by Byron Preiss Visual Publications, Inc.
  • "Foreword" has Philip José Farmer at bottom.
  • "Selections from the Sketchbook of Major Clive Folliot" is before the interior sketches all on unnumbered pages after the novel's end. Individual sketches are titled as follows:
    • "Sketch of Clive Foliot - Major, Fifth Imperial House Guards"
    • "Sketch of Annabelle Leighton"
    • "Sketch of Quarter Master Sargent Horace Hamilton Smythe"
    • "Sketch of Sargent Smythe in disguise as a Mandarin"
    • "Sketch of a Creature which attacked while guarding a red glowing rock formation"
    • "Sketch of the Gong at the Black Tower"
    • "Sketch of Sargent Smythe's Revolver"
    • "Sketch of the Diary of Major Foliot's lost brother"
    • "Sketch of a Cutlass like weapon salvaged from a horrible flying creature"
    • "Sketch of Anne"
    • "Sketch of Finnbogg"
    • "Sketch of Sidi Bombay"
    • "Sketch of a Strange Star formation"
    • "Sketch of Shriek"
    • "Sketch of NRRC' KTH"
  • Front cover says only 'The Dungeon' (over) 'Volume 1'.
  • The novel title and author are printed on back cover as 'The Black Tower' (over) 'by Richard A. Lupoff'.
  • Front cover and spine have 'Volume 1' in the title, the title page has 'Book 1'
  • C$4.95 in Canada