The Essential Ellison: A 35-Year Retrospective

Overview:

• Title: The Essential Ellison: A 35-Year Retrospective
• Author: Harlan Ellison
• Year: 1987
• ISBN-10: 0914261029
• Publisher: Nemo Press
• Price: $60.00
• Pages: xv+1019
• Binding: Hardcover
• Type: Collection
• Title Reference: The Essential Ellison
• Notes:
  • "FIRST EDITION" stated on the copyright page with a complete number line: "10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1".
  • The copyright page contains the complete Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data including the year of publication (1987), the ISBNs of the trade edition (0-914261-01-0) and this deluxe edition (0-914261-02-9), and the LCCN (84-63075).
  • A note on page xii states: "All of Harlan's work appearing here derives from preferred texts. Trust these, and no others."
  • Statement on the recto of the last page (unnumbered), below a photograph of Ellison on which he has signed his name in gold ink: "This is copy ____ of 1226 signed, numbered and slipcased deluxe editions, of which 26, lettered A through Z, have been reserved for the press as presentation copies."
  • "Edited and introduced by Terry Dowling with Richard Delap and Gil Lamont" stated on the title page.
  • "Dust jacket paintings by Leo and Diane Dillon" (over) "Dust jacket design and hand lettering by Arnie Fenner" printed on the back flap of the dustjacket.
  • Locus1 gives August 1987 as the publication date of the trade edition, but that this deluxe edition "was announced, but has apparently not appeared yet."
  • The slipcase is covered with the same gray-blue cloth which matches the binding of the book itself.
  • The Dillon illustration on the back of the dustjacket compliments the one used for the book's front cover. It can be seen here.