The Collection

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Overview:

Title: The Collection
Author: Bentley Little
Year: 2002
ISBN-10: 073942761X
Publisher: Signet / New American Library / SFBC
Price: $10.99
Pages: x+453
Binding: Hardcover
Type: Collection
Title Reference: The Collection
Notes: First hardcover edition
Info from Locus1, listed in the 2003 index as a 2002 release, but doesn't give a month. Date here based on the paperback edition.