The Kinsman Saga
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Overview:
- Title: The Kinsman Saga
- Author: Ben Bova
- Year: 1989
- Publisher: The Easton Press
- Pages: x+[6]+566
- Binding: Hardcover
- Type: Omnibus
- Title Reference: Millennium
- Notes:
- "COLLECTOR'S EDITION" (over) "Bound in Genuine Leather" stated on the title page.
- "The special contents of this edition are copyright © 1989 by The Easton Press..." stated on the copyright page. No stated date of publication.
- This is a limited edition of an unknown number of copies and was available by subscription only.
- One of The Masterpieces of Science Fiction series, indicated by the logo printed on the endpapers.
- No ISBN, no printed price, and no dustjacket as issued.
- Unlike most of the volumes in this series, the title is given on the front cover.
- The uncredited illustrative cover design is repeated on the back, without the title.
- Pages are gilt-edged and there is a gold satin bookmark bound into the book.
- The frontispiece, credited on the title page only, is on the page facing the half-title page.
- The author's foreword comes before Robinson's six-page introduction which appears on unnumbered pages. Robinson's piece has been placed here by continuing the roman-numeraled pages of Bova's piece.
- "Collector's Notes" (uncredited) are on a double-sided laid-in sheet.
- This edition is a facsimile reprint of the 1987 Tor edition.
- Locus1 dates this as January, 1990, but that can not be confirmed because of the difficulty in determining the publication date of Easton Press editions.
- Verified copy was purchased for approximately $40.00 from the publisher.