The Embedding
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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.