The Golden One

Overview:

  • Title: The Golden One
  • Author: Deborah Chester
  • Year: 1997
  • ISBN-10: 1572972785
  • Publisher: Ace Books
  • Price: $5.99
  • Pages: 344
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Type: Novel
  • Title Reference: The Golden One
  • Notes:
    • 1st printing, states "Ace edition / February 1998" and "10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1".
    • This publication is the 1st printing of Ace 0441005616 / 0-441-00561-6 at $5.99 that has two bar-codes stickers applied with a new ISBN, 1-57297-278-5. The first sticker is on the inside of the front cover and the second is on the back cover and are covering the original Ace bar codes. The stickers only state the ISBN and price ($5.99).
    • Checking Amazon for ISBN 1572972785 / 1-57297-278-5 reports the following:
      SitePublisherDate
      BookAce BooksFebruary, 1998
      Amazon.comBerkleyDecember 1997
      Amazon.co.ukBoulevardDec 1997
      Amazon.caBoulevardDecember 1997
    • Based on the data from the Amazon sites this ISFDB record has been updated to:
      • Note the year as 1997-12-00 though the physical publication states the Ace publication date of February 1998. I would suspect this is part of a deal with Lucasfilm to get the publication out for the Christmas market though it's odd they were able to do this three full months before Ace's publication date.
    • The cover artist, Bob Eggleton, is not credited. See the series bibliographic comments about this.