The Embedding

Overview:

  • Title: The Embedding
  • Author: Ian Watson
  • Year: 1975
  • ISBN-10: 0684142058
  • Publisher: Charles Scribner's Sons
  • Price: $6.95
  • Pages: 254
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • Type: Novel
  • Title Reference: The Embedding
  • Notes:
    • "Copyright © Ian Watson 1973" on copyright page
    • "1 3 5 7 9 11 13 15 17 19 V/C 20 18 16 14 12 10 8 6 4 2" on copyright page.
    • No statement of edition
    • Publication year not stated. The copyright year refers to the UK hc Gollancz edition. The only hint of year is from the LCCN on copyright page: "75-947"
    • Year and Month of publication from the printing history published in the 1977 Bantam edition. Verified in Locus #175 (June 24, 1975).
    • The ISBN stated on copyright page, 0-684-13896-4, differs from the SBN stated on rear cover, 684-14205-8
    • The ISBN 0684138964 appears to be also used for an edition of A Concise History of India by Francis Watson (non-fiction, non-genre) according to both the LoC and OCLC/WorldCat websites as at 2023-12-12
    • The ISBN 0684142058 is not registered on LoC or OCLC/WorldCat websites but does appear on Amazon.com and used book sites (Abebooks, Biblio) as at 2023-12-12. Furthermore, it only returns results for one title: The Embedding so is probably the correct ISBN for this publication
    • ISBN derived from 9 digit SBN
    • "Jacket design by Jerry Thorp" on back flap of dustjacket.